Information and Its Conceptual Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
José Rascão
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Full Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concept Of Information

Information has attributes/positivist concepts that some authors use to better understand it. Others are critical about information subjectivism. This article discusses conceptual perspectives of information. The aim is to study the concepts of information from some areas of knowledge of the social sciences, cognitive and business looking to propose a concept of information in the field of information science. The methodology of the study is formed by bibliographical research. It is concluded that the concept of information is still in full development. The concept of information depends on the perception of information. Although this is not something that shocks, raises some interesting questions and research opportunities. For example, as we get the information.

Information and Its Conceptual Perspectives

2018 ◽  
pp. 4422-4435
Author(s):  
José Poças Rascão
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Full Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concept Of Information

Information has attributes/positivist concepts that some authors use to better understand it. Others are critical about information subjectivism. This chapter discusses conceptual perspectives of information. The aim is to study the concepts of information from some areas of knowledge of the social sciences, cognitive and business looking to propose a concept of information in the field of information science. The methodology of the study is formed by bibliographical research. It is concluded that the concept of information is still in full development.

Information and Its Conceptual Perspectives

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-184
Author(s):  
José Poças Rascão
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Full Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concept Of Information

Information has attributes/positivist concepts that some authors use to better understand it. Others are critical about information subjectivism. This chapter discusses conceptual perspectives of information. The aim is to study the concepts of information from some areas of knowledge of the social sciences looking to propose a concept of information in the field of information science. The methodology of the study is formed by bibliographical research. It is concluded that the concept of information is still in full development.

scholarly journals Citation Analysis Shows Promise as an Effective Tool for Monograph Collection Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Scott Marsalis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Local Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Us

A Review of: Enger, K. B. (2009). Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic libraries. Library & Information Science Research, 31(2), 107-112. Objective – To test whether acquiring books written by authors of highly cited journal articles is an effective method for building a collection in the social sciences. Design – Comparison Study. Setting – Academic library at a public university in the US. Subjects – A total of 1,359 book titles, selected by traditional means (n=1,267) or based on citation analysis (n=92). Methods – The researchers identified highly-ranked authors, defined as the most frequently cited authors publishing in journals with an impact factor greater than one, with no more than six journals in any category, using 1999 ISI data. They included authors in the categories Business, Anthropology, Criminology & Penology, Education & Education Research, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, and General Social Sciences. The Books in Print bibliographic tool was searched to identify monographs published by these authors, and any titles not already owned were purchased. All books in the study were available to patrons by Fall 2005. The researchers collected circulation data in Spring 2007, and used it to compare titles acquired by this method with titles selected by traditional means. Main Results – Overall, books selected by traditional methods circulated more than those selected by citation analysis, with differences significant at the .001 level. However, at the subject category level, there was no significant difference at the .05 level. Most books selected by the test method circulated one to two times. Conclusion – Citation analysis can be an effective method for building a relevant book collection, and may be especially effective for identifying works relevant to a discipline beyond local context.

scholarly journals Augmented intelligence technology. The ethical and practical problems of its implementation in libraries

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

PurposeThe subject of the article is the concept of augmented intelligence, which constitutes a further stage in the development of research on artificial intelligence. This is a new phenomenon that has rarely been considered in the subject literature so far, which may be interesting for the fields of social sciences and humanities. The aim is to describe the features of this technology and determine the practical and ethical problems associated with its implementation in libraries.Design/methodology/approachThe method of literature review was used. Systematic searches according to specific questions were carried out using the Scopus and Web of Science scientific databases, as well as Google Scholar and the LISTA abstract database.FindingsThe results established that the issue of augmented intelligence has barely been discussed in the field of librarianship. Although this technology may be interesting as a new area of librarian research and as a new framework for designing innovative services, deep ethical consideration is necessary before this technology is introduced in libraries.Research limitations/implicationsThe article deals with some of the newest technologies available, and this topic is generally very rarely discussed in scientific publications in either the social sciences or humanities. Therefore, due to the limited availability of materials, the findings presented in the article are primarily of a conceptual nature. The aim is to present this topic from the perspective of librarianship and to create a starting point for further discussion on the ethical aspects of introducing new technologies in libraries.Practical implicationsThe results can be widely used in practice as a framework for the implementation of augmented intelligence in libraries.Social implicationsThe article can help to facilitate the debate on the role of implementing new technologies in libraries.Originality/valueThe problem of augmented intelligence is very rarely addressed in the subject literature in the field of library and information science.

Discussion: A Sociologist's Point of View

1950 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
W. Rex Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Full Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Reverence For Life ◽  
The Individual

The only words in the title of this symposium which do not cause difficulty are “of” and “in,” since even Latin America is a “nomer” that many protest is a “misnomer,” for some parts of the region southeast of the U.S.A., and “pathology” and “democracy” can get into water as hot and deep as any that lies under the thin ice over which the social sciences skate. The very lumping together in our discussion of twenty republics varying as they do in Latin America is a procedure of doubtful accuracy, and one which at first encounter arouses the ire of any good nationalist in these countries. The term “pathological” suggests too strongly a complacent superior attitude on our own part that may befit the propagandist or the naive and uninformed man on the street, but not the social scientist. The world does not fall so neatly into the patterns of perfect democracy and the outer darkness as Mr. Churchill has supposed. Can we not accept a certain relativity in these matters and remember the large-sized mote in our own eye?With the struggle of almost innumerable thinkers to define the direction and goal, we are surely familiar. The writer has no intention of assembling all the definitions available, for if they were all assembled, sociologists might lay the emphasis not upon forms and constitutions so much as upon something broader that earlier theologians would have called men's will and men's love. Since the development of “Mr. Tylor's science,” cultural anthropology, we would be more likely to say that the legal arrangements grow out of and express the culture; that back of them lies a slow secular growth of the idea that personality, the freedom and full development of the individual are ultimate values, not to be sacrificed to the state; that power may be necessary for survival, and that unity or consensus or conformity may be necessary to power, but that something like Albert Schweitzer's “reverence for life” is a deeper principle. These things are no sooner said than we realize that we often sin against the ideals we cherish and fear the freedom to which we give lip-service. The practice falls far short of the preaching.

scholarly journals From the levels of memory to their info-technicist unfolding in the information society

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mardochée Ogécime ◽  
Rubens Alves da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Material ◽  
The Subject

The present article consists of analyzing memory levels from the perspective of Assmann (2008). From a systematic review on the subject, is instituted a vision on the dimension of internal (neuronal), social and cultural memory in the human, material and immaterial relations between groups. A theoretical-analytic dialogue with History, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Psychology, Information Science and other areas of the Social Sciences is undertaken, which are presented not in a watertight manner, but which participate in the analysis of this polysemic object, formed not in the abstraction of the norm, but intertwined with the worlds of people and social dynamics. Next, the level of the cultural dimension of memory is related to the categories of the information society in its triple immersion: as an economic transition, political project and social norms, to discuss the technical dimension of memory whose modern tendency is characterized by the use / use and hyper-industrialization of 'mnemonic technology' for the performance and development of individuals, organizations and societies.

scholarly journals Mutual influence of the information and library environment and social sciences. Issue 3

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Library Support

Trends in information-library support of the social sciences are investi-gated, as well as issues in the use of the latest innovations of the social sci-ences in library science, and the interaction of research libraries in the infra-structure of social sciences; library collections as information resources, technologies for discovering information from sources and communication networks of the scientific communities are analyzed. This work is geared to library and information professionals, social scientists, as well as those who are interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of library science and bibliography, and humanities and social sciences, history of science, and information science.

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