History and Foundations of Information Science
This series of books focuses on the historical approach or theoretical approach to information science and seeks a broader interpretation of what we consider as information (i.e., information is in the eye of the beholder, be it sets of data, scholarly publications, works of art, material objects, or DNA samples), and an emphasis upon how people access and interact with this information.
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Paper Machines
About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
ISBN: 9780262550857
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Picture-Work
How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
ISBN: 9780262547000
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture.
Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
ISBN: 9780262045278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
The Typographic Medium
ISBN: 9780262045858
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
An innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media.
The Infographic
A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications
ISBN: 9780262043823
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 31, 2020
An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism.
Documentarity
Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription
ISBN: 9780262043205
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 1, 2019
A historical-conceptual account of the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something becomes evident.
The Information Manifold
Why Computers Can't Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News
ISBN: 9780262043038
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2019
An argument that information exists at different levels of analysis—syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic—and an exploration of the implications.
Search Foundations
Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience
ISBN: 9780262038591
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 12, 2019
A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.
Indexing It All
The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data
ISBN: 9780262534932
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 2014
A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data.
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation
Uses and Abuses
ISBN: 9780262035125
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2016
Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.
Paper Machines
About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
ISBN: 9780262550857
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.
Picture-Work
How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
ISBN: 9780262547000
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture.
Power of Position
Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences
ISBN: 9780262045278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
The Typographic Medium
ISBN: 9780262045858
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
An innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media.
The Infographic
A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications
ISBN: 9780262043823
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 31, 2020
An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today's data journalism.
Documentarity
Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription
ISBN: 9780262043205
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 1, 2019
A historical-conceptual account of the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something becomes evident.
The Information Manifold
Why Computers Can't Solve Algorithmic Bias and Fake News
ISBN: 9780262043038
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2019
An argument that information exists at different levels of analysis—syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic—and an exploration of the implications.
Search Foundations
Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience
ISBN: 9780262038591
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 12, 2019
A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.
Indexing It All
The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data
ISBN: 9780262534932
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 2014
A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data.
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation
Uses and Abuses
ISBN: 9780262035125
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2016
Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.