This book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is
involved in matters of digital communication, the social, cultural and
political consequences of classifying, and how particular historical
contexts shape ideas of information and what information to classify
and record. Due to permeation of digital infrastructures, software,
and digital media in everyday life, many aspects of contemporary
culture and society are infused with the activity and practice of
classification. That means that old questions about classification
have their potency in modern discourses about surveillance, identify
formation, big data and so on. At the same time, this situation also
implies a need to reconsider these old questions and how to frame them
in digital culture. This book contains contributions that consider
classic library classification practices and how their choices have
social, cultural and political effect, how the organization of
knowledge is not only a professional practice but is also a way of
communicating and understanding digital culture, and how what a
particular historical context perceives as information has
implications for the recording of that information.
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Caught Between Global Structures and Local Meaning
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781787145313
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Emerald Publishing Limited
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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