Information Centers as Public Sphere and Innovative Approaches

Designing a conceptual model of public libraries as community centers, based on the public sphere theory of Jürgen Habermas

Objective: The aim of this study is to achieve a conceptual model for the transformation of Iranian public libraries into social centers, based on the theory of the public sphere of Jürgen Habermas. Methodology: Research in terms of purpose, applied; In terms of how data is collected, survey; And in terms of the nature of the data, it is a mixed exploratory type of research conducted with a s...

Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

RUNNING HEAD: YOUTUBE AS A PUBLIC SPHERE YouTube as a public sphere: The Proposition 8 debate

Domain analysis in information science: Eleven approaches - traditional as well as innovative

What kind of knowledge is needed by information specialists working in a specific subject field like medicine, sociology or music? What approaches have been used in information science to produce kinds of domain-specific knowledge? This article presents 11 approaches to domain analysis. Together these approaches make a unique competence for information specialists. The approaches are: producing...

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...