Information cultures: Shapings and shapes of information
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Information cultures : Shapings and shapes of information. / Skouvig, Laura.
The Organization of Knowledge : Caught Between Global Structures and Local Meaning. ed. / Jack Andersen; Laura Skouvig. Emerald Group Publishing, 2017. p. 17-33 (Studies in Information).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Information cultures
T2 - Shapings and shapes of information
AU - Skouvig, Laura
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - information cultures
KW - genealogy
KW - secret information
KW - information control
KW - Information history
KW - Information history
KW - Foucault
KW - Information culture
KW - Denmark 1800-1815
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-1-78714-532-0
T3 - Studies in Information
SP - 17
EP - 33
BT - The Organization of Knowledge
A2 - Andersen, Jack
A2 - Skouvig, Laura
PB - Emerald Group Publishing
ER -
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