[Asis-l] Publication: Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge. A Multidisciplinary Approach.

[Fidelia Ibekwe]

Folks,

Some of you may be interested in this publication Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan 
& Thomas Dousa (eds.), Theories of Information, Communication and 
Knowledge. A Multidisciplinary approach, Springer, Netherlands, Series 
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 34, 2014, 331 pages. 
ISBN: 978-94-007-6972-4
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1/page/1

ABSTRACT
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This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been 
asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? 
How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from 
the perceptions of things? And how do we communicate this meaning to 
others---that is to say, inform them? Although no consensus exists on a 
common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few 
can reject the hypothesis that information -- whether perceived as an « 
object » or as a « process » - is a precondition for knowledge.
Epistemology can be defined as the study of how we know things in 
general---this is its primary signification in the anglophone 
world---or, more specifically, as the study of how scientific knowledge 
is attained and validated---this is how it is conceived in the 
francophone world. To adopt an epistemological stance is to commit 
oneself to render an account of what constitutes knowledge or, in 
procedural terms, to render an account of when one can claim to know 
something. An epistemological theory imposes constraints on the 
interpretation of human cognitive interaction with the world. It goes 
without saying that different epistemological theories will have more or 
less restrictive criteria for distinguishing what constitutes knowledge 
from what is not. If information is a precondition for knowledge 
acquisition, giving an account of how knowledge is acquired should 
affect our understanding of information and communication as concepts. 
While much has been written on the definition of these concepts, 
relatively few researchers have sought to establish explicit links 
between differing theoretical conceptions of them and the underlying 
epistemological stances. This is what this volume attempts to do. It is 
a multidisciplinary exploration of how information and communication are 
perceived in different disciplines and how this affects theories of 
knowledge.

TOC
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Chapter 1: Introduction by Thomas M. Dousa, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan
Chapter 2: The Transdisciplinary view of Information Theory from a 
cybersemiotic perspective by Søren Brier
Chapter 3: Epistemology and the study of social information within the 
perspective of  a Unified Theory of Information by Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Chapter 4: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers by Luciano Floridi
Chapter 5: Human Communication from the Semiotic Perspective by 
Winfried Nöth
Chapter 6: Mind the Gap: Transitions between Concepts of Information in 
varied domains by Lyn Robinson and David Bawden
Chapter 7: Information without Information Studies by Jonathan Furner
Chapter 8: Epistemological challenges for Information Science: 
Constructing information by Ian Cornelius
Chapter 9: Information Science and its core concepts: Levels of 
disagreements by Birger Hjørland
Chapter 10. Visual Information Construing: Bistability as a revealer of 
Mediating Patterns by Sylvie Leleu-Merviel
Chapter 11: Understanding Users' informational Constructs via a Triadic 
Method Approach: A case study by Michel Labour
Chapter 12: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information 
Units in Textual Information: The case of Julius Otto Kaiser's 
Systematic Indexing by Thomas Dousa

best,

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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/
EPICIC colloquium : http://www.epicic.org/
EPICIC videos: http://suel.univ-lyon3.fr/eltv/viewcategory/109/colloque-epicic-2011'
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