Naslov
Knowledge or Information Landscapes? LIS Approaches to the Landscapes Metaphor

Autori
Kos, Denis

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Skup
Symposium on cross-disciplinary research in the health humanities and beyond: perspectives and knowledge landscapes in the digital society

Mjesto i datum
Amsterdam, Nizozemska, 15.12.2017

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Ključne riječi
knowledge landscapes ; information landscapes ; library and information sciences

Sažetak
Library and information sciences (LIS) have a long disciplinary history in devising approaches to enable access to the vast universe of knowledge that human beings created. Continuous fulfillment of this mission becomes questionable when it is considered in the contemporary context of the ever expanding amounts of online information. However, LIS is trying to offer useful conceptualizations dealing with the provision of orientation, navigation and knowledge aimed at combating the information deluge. Key concepts include primarily the notions of „information landscapes“ and „information literacy“ but also information environment, information obesity etc. These concepts have expanded the initial focus of LIS on recorded knowledge and have started to examine the communicative aspects of information production. This is perhaps best described in Annemaree Lloyds conceptualization of the information landscape which she defines as: „intersubjectively created spaces that have resulted from human interaction, in which information is created and shared and eventually sediments as knowledge.“ (2010, p. 9-10). Approaches to these ideas have been both descriptive and prescriptive, which means that the focus on treating these concepts as metaphors that describe the state of real human practices is coupled by their normative and educational modeling. This later focus has mainly been understood under the name information literacy. However, alongside LIS, different scientific fields and communities of practice are attempting to resolve domain specific information and knowledge communication issues both under the banner of these LIS concepts and outside that discourse. A particularly active field includes medicine and health sciences which traditionally regard health information literacy or health literacy as a conceptual space in which one can approach the resolution of these issues. New research alliances, like the „Navigating knowledge landscapes“ (NKL) international research network, aim to further the debate by conceptualizing the broader communicative situation in contemporary science (Svalastog, et al., 2014). Svalastog's et al. (2014) usage of the landscapes metaphor points to a set of commonalities in comparison to how this metaphor was used in LIS. In this presentation we will focus on how LIS concepts resonate with the knowledge landscapes metaphor in order to examine the potential of LIS theory to contribute to its conceptual foundations.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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