Information Science

The roots of Knowledge and Information science

Knowledge and Information science is rooted in philosophy and its branches are in sociology. This does not impair its interdisciplinary position. In Iran, the name of "LIS" has undergone a little change and called "knowledge & Information Science (KIS)". Through this change, the importance of philosophy in this discipline has reached its highest level. Knowledge science has a great relationship...

Redefining information science: from "information science" to "knowledge science"

Purpose – This philosophical essay aims to explore the concept of information science. Design/methodology/approach – The philosophical argumentation is composed of five phases. It is based on clarifying the meanings of its basic concept “data”, “information” and “knowledge”. Findings – The study suggests that the name of the field “information science” should be changed to “knowledge science”. ...

Information Science

This essay is a personal analysis of information science as a field of scientific inquiry and professional practice that has evolved over the past half-century. Various sections examine the origin of information science in respect to the problems of information explosion; the social role of the field; the nature of “information” in information science; the structure of the field in terms of pro...

Theorizing information for information science

Information Science: Science about Information, Misinformation and Disinformation

Participants in interactions (particularly in interactive network media (WWW) aim to change their intentions, goals, decisions and actions – as well as those of other participants in communication. Integrity of information is therefore disturbed; changes are manifested as technical, semantic and social errors and lead to the creation of information, misinformation and disinformation. These beco...