Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge A Multidisciplinary Approach /
This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? Although no consensus exists on a common definition of t...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Σειρά: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction; Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas Dousa
- Chapter 1: Cybersemiotics: A new foundation for transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition, meaning, communication and consciousness; Søren Brier
- Chapter 2: Epistemology and the Study of Social Information within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information;Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- Chapter 3: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers; Luciano Floridi
- Chapter 4: Human communication from the semiotic perspective; Winfried Nöth
- Chapter 5: Mind the gap: transitions between concepts of information in varied domains; Lyn Robinson and David Bawden
- Chapter 6: Information and the disciplines: A conceptual meta-analysis; Jonathan Furner
- Chapter 7: Epistemological Challenges for Information Science; Ian Cornelius
- Chapter 8: The nature of information science and its core concepts; Birger Hjørland
- Chapter 9: Sylvie Leleu-Merviel. Coalescence in the informational process. Application to visual sense-making. Chapter 10: Understanding users’ informational constructs through the affordances of cinematographic images; Michel Labour
- Chapter 11: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: A Case Study; Thomas Dousa
- Index.
