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Information - Keywords (Hardcover)
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Information - Keywords (Hardcover)
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For decades, we have been told we live in the “information
age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has
reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when
quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such
methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered
the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present
them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities
should and do play an important role in interpreting and critiquing
the historical, cultural, and conceptual nature of information.
This book is one of two companion volumes that explore theories and
histories of information from a humanistic perspective. They
consider information as a long-standing feature of social,
cultural, and conceptual management, a matter of social practice,
and a fundamental challenge for the humanities today. Bringing
together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords
highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and
concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and
anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our
understanding of information from a range of theoretical,
historical, and global perspectives. Together with Information: A
Reader, it sets forth a major humanistic vision of the concept of
information.
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