Douglas Raber

The Problem of Information

An Introduction to Information Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Information can be conceptualized in two fundamentally yet contradictory ways_it appears in the world as both a physical and a cognitive phenomenon. The dilemma information specialists face is similar to that of physicists who must cope with light as both a wave and a particle. Unlike physics, however, information science has yet to develop a unified theory that unites the contradictory conceptions of its essential theoretical object.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780810845688
• ISBN-10: 0810845687
• Artikelnr.: 21684451

Autorenporträt

Douglas Raber is Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1 Information Science and the Problem of
Information Chapter 3 2 Paradigms and Metaphors Chapter 4 3 The Physical
Metaphor Chapter 5 4 The Physical Metaphor Illustrated Chapter 6 5 The
Cognitive Metaphor Chapter 7 6 The Cognitive Metaphor Illustrated Chapter 8
7 Representation of Information Chapter 9 8 Representation Illustrated
Chapter 10 9 Relevance Chapter 11 10 Information as a Social Phenomena
Chapter 12 11 Semiotics for Information Science Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Author