Indexing It All The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data

In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He...

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Main Author: Day, Ronald E
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 2014
The MIT Press
Edition:1
Series:History and Foundations of Information Science
Subjects:
Computing and Processing
Documentation
Documentation - Social aspects
Documentation > History
General Topics for Engineers
Indexing > Social aspects
Information Science
Information science > Philosophy
Information science > Social aspects
Information technology > Social aspects
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Library & Information Science
Library Science
Subject (Philosophy)
ISBN:0262028212, 9780262028219
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Paul Otlet: 3: Representing Documents and Persons in Information Systems: 4: Social Computing and the Indexing of the Whole 5: The Document as the Subject: 6: Governing Expression: 7: Conclusion: Notes References Index
  • Cover Title Page, Copyright, Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Paul Otlet: Friends and Books for Information Needs 3 Representing Documents and Persons in Information Systems 4 Social Computing and the Indexing of the Whole 5 The Document as the Subject: Androids 6 Governing Expression: Social Big Data and Neoliberalism 7 Conclusion Notes References Index
  • Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Paul Otlet: Friends and Books for Information Needs -- 3 Representing Documents and Persons in Information Systems -- 4 Social Computing and the Indexing of the Whole -- 5 The Document as the Subject: Androids -- 6 Governing Expression: Social Big Data and Neoliberalism -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index