Situating logic and information in information science

Situating logic and information in information science

Information Science (IS) is commonly said to study collection, classification, storage, retrieval and use of information. However, there is no consensus on what information is. The paper examines some of the formal models of information and informational processes, namely Situation Theory and Shannon’s Information Theory, in terms of their suitability for providing a useful framework for studyi...

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...

Situating culture in the global information sector

Comparison of the use of Theory in the Journal of Library and Information Science with Research on Information Science and Public Libraries

Introduction: The theory has special significance and applications in every field of science, including science and information science. The present study seeks to Compare of the use of theory in the Journal of Library and Information Science with Research on Information Science and Public Libraries in the period of 87 to 96.   Method: The present study was carried out through content analysi...

Telemedicine and Development: Situating Information Technologies in the Amazon

This study is based on an ethnographic study of a telemedicine system implemented in Northeastern Peru. This system connects a hospital in the Upper Amazon with health care facilities scattered throughout that area of the jungle. Patients’ transport through the physical nodes of the public health care system relied on rivers and wooden boats, but voice and data can now flow directly through cha...