Humanistic Information Science

TY - ABST

T1 - Humanistic Information Science

AU - Feinberg, Melanie

AU - Furner, Jonathan

AU - Mai, Jens-Erik

AU - Tennis, Joseph

N1 - Feinberg, Melanie ; Jens‐erik, Mai ; Jonathan, Furner ; Tennis, Joseph. Humanistic information science. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2012, Vol.49(1), pp.1-3

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - The panel presents approaches to information science that are grounded in humanities, and argues that the field could be richer if it embraces humanistic approaches to information science. While the field has broadened and changed significantly since ASIST was founded 75 years ago, it is suggested that information science continues to be committed to objectivistic understandings of what is most properly involved in social scientific inquiry. The panelists will present understandings of information science as the field concerned with the fundamental relation between people and reality, and with the culturally-specific roles that information plays in the practices that constitute this relation. The panelists will present a range of scholarly research topics in humanistic information science that will be used as the springboard for interactions with the audience about the future of a humanistic information science.

AB - The panel presents approaches to information science that are grounded in humanities, and argues that the field could be richer if it embraces humanistic approaches to information science. While the field has broadened and changed significantly since ASIST was founded 75 years ago, it is suggested that information science continues to be committed to objectivistic understandings of what is most properly involved in social scientific inquiry. The panelists will present understandings of information science as the field concerned with the fundamental relation between people and reality, and with the culturally-specific roles that information plays in the practices that constitute this relation. The panelists will present a range of scholarly research topics in humanistic information science that will be used as the springboard for interactions with the audience about the future of a humanistic information science.

M3 - Conference abstract for conference

T2 - ASIST Annual Meeting

Y2 - 26 October 2012 through 30 October 2012

ER -