Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (5)

ULiège (4)

UAntwerpen (3)

ULB (3)

KBR (2)

Odisee (2)

Thomas More Kempen (2)

Thomas More Mechelen (2)

UCLL (2)

UGent (2)

More...

Resource type

book (6)


Language

English (5)

French (1)


Year
From To Submit

2021 (1)

2020 (1)

2018 (1)

2017 (1)

2014 (1)

More...
Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by

Book
Information and society
Author:
ISBN: 9780262339544 0262533383 9780262533386 0262339544 9780262339551 0262339552 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"A concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related, and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data."--Page 4 of cover. "We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust. Buckland argues that every society is an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision."--Publisher's description.


Book
Socioinformatics - The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT
Authors: --- --- --- ---
ISBN: 3319093789 3319093770 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Socioinformatics is a new scientific approach to study the interactions between humans and IT. These proceedings are a collection of the contributions during a workshop of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Researchers in this emerging field discuss the main aspects of interactions between IT and humans with respect to; social connections, social changes, acceptance of IT and the social conditions affecting this acceptance, effects of IT on humans and in response changes of IT, structures of the society and the influence of IT on these structures, changes of metaphysics  influenced by IT and the social context of a knowledge society.


Book
Transitioning Towards a Knowledge Society : Qatar as a Case Study
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 3319711954 3319711946 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar’s path from oil- and gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy. This book gives basic information about the region and the country, including the geographic and demographic data, the culture, the politics and the economy, the health care conditions and the education system. It introduces the concepts of knowledge society and knowledge-based development and adds factual details about Qatar by interpreting indicators of the development status. Subsequently, the research methods that underlie the study are described, which offers information on the eGovernment study analyzing the government-citizen relationship, higher education institutions and systems, its students and the students’ way into the labor market. This book has an audience with economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, information scientists and other researchers on the knowledge society, but also all researchers and practitioners interested in the Arab Oil States and their future.


Book
Burning the books : a history of knowledge under attack
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9781529378757 9781529378764 9781529378788 1529378761 1529378753 Year: 2020 Publisher: London John Murray

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature of history since ancient times but have increased in frequency and intensity during the modern era. Libraries are far more than stores of literature, through preserving the legal documents such as Magna Carta and records of citizenship, they also support the rule of law and the rights of citizens. Today, the knowledge they hold on behalf of society is under attack as never before. In this fascinating book, he explores everything from what really happened to the Great Library of Alexandria to the Windrush papers, from Donald Trump's deleting embarrassing tweets to John Murray's burning of Byron's memoirs in the name of censorship. At once a powerful history of civilisation and a manifesto for the vital importance of physical libraries in our increasingly digital age, Burning the Books is also a very human story animated by an unlikely cast of adventurers, self-taught archaeologists, poets, freedom-fighters -- and, of course, librarians and the heroic lengths they will go to preserve and rescue knowledge, ensuring that civilisation survives. From the rediscovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the desert, hidden from the Romans and lost for almost 2000 years to the medieval manuscript that inspired William Morris, the knowledge of the past still has so many valuable lessons to teach us and we ignore it at our peril.


Book
Information : a historical companion
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 9780691179544 0691179549 9780691209746 069120974X Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Information technology shapes nearly every part of modern life, and debates about information--its meaning, effects, and applications--are central to a range of fields, from economics, technology, and politics to library science, media studies, and cultural studies. This rich, unique resource traces the history of information with an approach designed to draw connections across fields and perspectives, and provide essential context for our current age of information. Clear, accessible, and authoritative, the book opens with a series of articles that provide a narrative history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information culture. This section focuses on major developments in the creation, storage, search, exchange, management, and manipulation of information, as well as the many meanings and uses of information over time. Coverage spans Europe, North America, and many other places and periods, including the medieval Islamic world and early modern East Asia, as well as the emergence of global networks. A second, alphabetical section includes more than 100 concise articles that cover specific concepts (e.g., data, intellectual property, privacy); formats and genres (books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls, social media); people (archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers); practices (censorship, forecasting, learning, surveilling, translating); processes (digitization, quantification, storage and search); systems (bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications); technologies (algorithms, cameras, computers), and much more. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from "analog/digital" to "World Wide Web.

Keywords

Information science --- Information resources --- Sciences de l'information --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Knowledge economy --- Sociological aspects --- Economy of knowledge --- Information economy --- KBE (Knowledge-based economy) --- Knowledge-based economy --- Economics --- Sociology of information science --- Sociology --- Communication --- Information literacy --- Library science --- Information sources --- Resources, Information --- Sources of information --- History as a science --- Archivistics --- 930.25 --- 930.25 Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek --- Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek --- Information resources. --- Anatoly Detwyler. --- Bruce Rusk. --- Christopher Nigent. --- East Asia. --- Eric Hayot. --- European information state. --- Information Keywords. --- Jack Chen. --- Khipu. --- Literary Information in China. --- Michele Kennerly. --- Xiao Liu. --- accounting. --- album. --- algorithm. --- appraising. --- archaeological decipherment. --- archives. --- archivists. --- art of memory. --- bells. --- bibliography. --- book history. --- book sales catalogues. --- books. --- bureaucracy. --- cameras. --- cards. --- censorship. --- coins and medals. --- commodification. --- commonplacing. --- communication. --- computation. --- computers. --- cybernetics. --- data. --- databases. --- decrypting. --- diagrams. --- digitization. --- diplomats and spies. --- disinformation. --- document. --- documentary authority. --- drums. --- early modern Europe. --- encrypting. --- error. --- ethnography. --- excerpting. --- feedback. --- files. --- forecasting. --- forgery. --- forms. --- globalization. --- governance. --- government documents. --- history. --- horoscope. --- indexing. --- information genres. --- information networks. --- information policy. --- information practices. --- information. --- inscriptions. --- intellectual property. --- intelligence testing. --- inventories. --- journals. --- knowledge. --- landscape and cities. --- layout and script in letters. --- learning. --- legal aspects. --- letterpress. --- letters. --- libraries. --- lists. --- lithography. --- manuscript. --- media technologies. --- media. --- medical and legal cases. --- medieval Islamic world. --- misinformation. --- networks. --- news. --- periodicals. --- premodern regimes and practices. --- printing. --- propaganda. --- public opinion. --- publicity. --- records. --- search. --- secretaries. --- technology and society.

Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by