Mary Neill

Dilemmas in the Study of Information (eBook, PDF)

Exploring the Boundaries of Information Science

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This thought-provoking book identifies the limits of the field of information science, and thus raises very real problems of the discipline in the context of people using, misusing, and abusing information. S. D. Neill provides many examples of the uses of information to illustrate how difficult it is to work with. In particular, he highlights problems of information scientists using information to study information. It is the author's contention that information use problems are, in certain instances, insoluble dilemmas, for they are grounded in human nature and can be solved only by altering that nature. Neill analyzes certain events to show that while sufficient information was available, it wasn't used--either because of greed, personality, or judgement. Information is power if, and only if, you have enough knowledge to understand it, the will to use it, and the ability to communicate it. The dilemmas are found in the control of information for retrieval, the use of data originally collected for other purposes, and research methods in library and information science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313066269
• Artikelnr.: 37816134

Autorenporträt

S. D. NEILL was Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario. Among his earlier publications is Dilemmas in the Study of Information (Greenwood Press, 1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Dilemma of the Subjective in Information Organization and
Retrieval The Dilemma of the Physical in the Objectification of Subjective
Knowledge Structures: The Role of the Body in Thinking The Dilemma of Human
Imperfection: Character, Values, and Personality The Dilemma of Information
Ignored: Argumentation with Selected Evidence The Dilemma of the Quality of
Information: An Incremental Death The Dilemma of Information Overload:
Managing in the Information Society The Dilemma of Unknown Information: The
Enigma of Complexity The Dilemma of Method for Information Research: Is
Information Science a Science, Social Science, or Humanity? On the Style of
Some Philosophers: The Dilemma of Debate Bibliographical Essay Indexes