Information Cultures in the Digital Age : a Festschrift in Honor of Rafael Capurro.

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Author / Creator:Kelly, Matthew (Writer on information science)
Imprint:Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (478 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13358053
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Other authors / contributors:Bielby, Jared.
ISBN:9783658146818
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Notes:3 The "Falling Angels of Rafael Capurro": Angeletics and the Philosophy of Information as "Hagiography of What is Symbolic."
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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Summary:For several decades Rafael Capurro has been at the forefront of defining the relationship between information and modernity through both phenomenological and ethical formulations. In exploring both of these themes Capurro has re-vivified the transcultural and intercultural expressions of how we bring an understanding of information to bear on scientific knowledge production and intermediation. Capurro has long stressed the need to look deeply into how we contextualize the information problems that scientific society creates for us and to re-incorporate a pragmatic dimension into our response that provides a balance to the cognitive turn in information science. With contributions from 35 scholars from 15 countries, Information Cultures in the Digital Age focuses on the culture and philosophy of information, information ethics, the relationship of information to message, the historic and semiotic understanding of information, the relationship of information to power and the future of information education. This Festschrift seeks to celebrate Rafael Capurro's important contribution to a global dialogue on how information conceptualisation, use and technology impact human culture and the ethical questions that arise from this dynamic relationship. The Editors Matthew Kelly is a scholar at Curtin University's Department of Information Studies and at the International Institute for Hermeneutics. Jared Bielby currently serves as Co-Chair for the International Center for Information Ethics and editor for the International Review of Information Ethics.
Other form:Print version: Kelly, Matthew. Information Cultures in the Digital Age : A Festschrift in Honor of Rafael Capurro. Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, ©2016 9783658146795
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-658-14681-8
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The volume comprises 27 essays by 35 authors from 15 countries--attesting to the span of influence of Rafael Capurro, a scholar of information ethics. Topics within the volume include the ethics of information; communications theory; social, economic, and political critiques of contemporary information-saturated society; and university education in library and information science. What loosely ties these diverse contributions together and to the scholar they honor is a hermeneutical and intellectual approach that draws on Capurro's "angeletics" as a framework for analyzing messages and communications. Angeletics has its distinct vocabulary and foundational works and highlights human intentionality in information. It is a philosophical alternative to information theory and signal processing likely more familiar to many in technical fields. This is not an introductory or a general readership collection; most essays make extensive use of theories from phenomenology, critical theory, and the works of Rafael Capurro. Readers without a background in these subjects should consult other works. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty and professionals only. --David Bantz, University of Alaska

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