Digital Information Contexts: Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Digital Information
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چکیده
It is a most important ask of information science to develop a theoretical framework, and a book such as this one, which provides critical analyses of current perspectives, is a most welcome contribution. It deserves erious discussion, which I shall initiate in this review. This book is organized in ten chapters (in addition to front matters and end matters): (i) The meaning of information. (2) Librarianship and print culture. (3) Digital information, science and the social sciences. (4) Digital in formation and computer science. (5) Digrtal information, language and representation. (6) Digital information and semiotics. (7) Digital information and post-structuralism. (8) Digital information and post-modernism. (9) Digrtal information and complexify. (10) Understanding digital information.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Documentation
دوره 63 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007