INF STD 291B
Special Topics in Theory of Information Studies
Description
Seminar, four hours. Topics include information and evidence-record-keeping and memory-making, personal and community identity, accountability and trust. Information and design-design and implementation of information systems and services, information aesthetics. Information retrieval and knowledge organization. Information seeking, access, and use-contexts, techniques, needs, barriers. Information and power-groups, ideologies, identities, structures. Information and value-information ethics, evaluation of information services. Information policy and law-processes, institutions, players, stakes. Information institutions and professions-domains, ecologies, cultures, communities. Economics, geography, history, philosophy, politics, sociology of information. Letter grading.
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