Information cultures: Shapings and shapes of information
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
The purpose of this article is to suggest a genealogy of the concept of information beyond the 20th century. The article discusses how the concept of information culture might provide a way of formulating such a genealogic strategy. The article approaches this purpose by providing a general narrative of premodern information cultures, examining works on early-modern scholars and 18th century savants and discussion of what seems to be a Foucauldian rupture in the conceptualization of information in 19th century England. The findings of the article are situated in the thinking that a genealogy of information would reveal that information had specific purposes in specific settings.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | The Organization of Knowledge : Caught Between Global Structures and Local Meaning |
Editors | Jack Andersen, Laura Skouvig |
Number of pages | 16 |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Publication date | 2017 |
Pages | 17-33 |
Chapter | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-78714-532-0 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-78714-531-3 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Series | Studies in Information |
---|---|
ISSN | 2055-5377 |
- Faculty of Humanities - Information history, Foucault, Information culture, Denmark 1800-1815
Research areas
ID: 174466660