Information as discursive construct

The Discursive Dilemma as a Lottery Paradox

List and Pettit have stated an impossibility theorem about the aggregation of individual opinion states. Building on recent work on the lottery paradox, this paper offers a variation on that result. The present result places different constraints on the voting agenda and the domain of profiles, but it covers a larger class of voting rules, which need not satisfy the proposition-wise independence

Event as a Discursive Meeting Ground

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

Modeling Information Access in Construct

Literacy and other interaction mechanisms have been shown to be important factors in determining whether and how individuals interact with printed and other forms of media. This lack of access to – or in cases, misinformation from – such types of media has an important social component for Construct modeling. This technical report describes the information access features in Construct, both fro...

The public sphere and discursive activities: information literacy as sociopolitical skills

Purpose – To provide some theoretical considerations concerning information literacy so as to contribute to a theoretically informed point of departure for understanding information literacy and to argue that to be an information literate person is to have knowledge about information sources and that searching and using them is determined by an insight into how knowledge is socially organized i...