[Asis-l] New Publication: Information science. origins, theories and paradigms (in french)

Fidelia Ibekwe fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr
Tue Oct 30 09:59:09 EDT 2012


Although this book written in french, it may be of interest to 
information science scholars.

Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan. Information Science. Origins, theories and 
paradigms.
(La Science de l'Information. Origines, théories et paradigmes. 
Hermès-Lavoisier, 270 pages.)

Website: http://www.lavoisier.fr/livre/h3912.html

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This books aimed to summarize the state of the debate on the theories 
and epistemologies underlying different bodies of research undertaken in 
information science and tried to answer the following three questions:

i) is there a separate information science?
ii) how is information, the object of this science defined?
iii) is there a specificity of the french information science ?

The books offers a comparative study of the evolution of Information 
science in France and in Anglophone countries (mostly US and UK). It 
contextualizes this evolution as reflected in different disciplinary 
inscriptions.
The challenge faced by information science is to reconcile the different 
epistemological approaches to knowledge: the realist approach, the 
individualistic approach of cognitive science and the collectivist 
approach where domains are shaped and behaviours fashioned by 
environments, cultures and shared social constructs.
This book can be useful to scholars, students and practitioners who 
desire to acquire a comprehensive and comparative perspective of how the 
field of Information Science has been evolving in the two major 
linguistic zones: anglophone and francophone.

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Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Ph.D. (MCF-HDR)        	
Associate Professor - Dept. of Information & Communication
University of Lyon 3 - France.                           	
Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/
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