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Robert Berry - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Review of: “Digital Information Culture: The Individual and Society in the Digital Age. Tredinnick, Luke.”
    Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2009
    Co-Authors: Robert Berry
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    The Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries considers for review professional literature concerning all aspects of electronic resources, and related services and systems. Health science librarians are the primary audience for these reviews. It is the purpose of each review to provide a detailed description and critical evaluation of the work. Recommendations for purchase are also included. Full bibliographic Information is provided whenever possible. Reviews reflect the opinion of the individual reviewer, not of the editor or publisher of the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. Anyone interested in reviewing a book for the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is invited to contact the Book Review Editor: Ellen C. Burchill Brassil, Librarian for Health Sciences, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield CT 06085. E-mail: brassile@sacredheart.edu

  • a review of Digital Information Culture the individual and society in the Digital age tredinnick luke
    Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2009
    Co-Authors: Robert Berry
    Abstract:

    The Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries considers for review professional literature concerning all aspects of electronic resources, and related services and systems. Health science librarians are the primary audience for these reviews. It is the purpose of each review to provide a detailed description and critical evaluation of the work. Recommendations for purchase are also included. Full bibliographic Information is provided whenever possible. Reviews reflect the opinion of the individual reviewer, not of the editor or publisher of the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. Anyone interested in reviewing a book for the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is invited to contact the Book Review Editor: Ellen C. Burchill Brassil, Librarian for Health Sciences, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield CT 06085. E-mail: brassile@sacredheart.edu

Luke Tredinnick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Digital Information Culture the individual and society in the Digital age
    2008
    Co-Authors: Luke Tredinnick
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    Summary This book is an introduction to the cultural, social and political impact of Digital Information and Digital resources. The book is organised around themes, rather than theories. The book is arranged into three sections: Culture, society and the individual. Each explores key elements of the social, cultural and political impact of Digital Information. The Culture section outlines the origins of cyberCulture in fifties pulp-fiction through to the modern day. It explores the issues of Information overload, the threat of a Digital dark age, and the criminal underbelly of Digital Culture. Section two, society, explores the economic and social impact of Digital Information, outlining key theorist of the Information Age. Section three explores the impact of Digital Information and Digital resources on the individual, exploring the changing nature of identity in a Digital world.Key Features Written by a leading author in the field The focus on Digital Information and its social, cultural and political impact is unique The wider theoretical framework, relying less of sociology, more on cultural theory The Author Luke Tredinnick is a Senior Lecturer in Information Management at London Metropolitan University and Course Director for the MSc on Digital Information Management. He teaches on a wide range of topics around the Digital Information area, including Digital libraries, intranets and extranets, knowledge applications and technologies, cyberCulture, and the social, political and theoretical aspects of Digital Information. He is the author of Why Intranets Fail (and How to Fix Them), also published by Chandos Publishing. Readership Information management academics and students; Information management professionals; allied academic fields, such as cultural studies, communications studies and media studies.Contents Part one: Culture and technology The meaning of Culture Representations of technology Narratives of technology and Culture Part two: Digital Information Culture Textuality Authenticity Knowledge Power Identity Memory Epilogue: Culture and tradition References Index

Ma Hai-qun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • On the Digital Information Culture and It's Construction Way
    Library Tribune, 2009
    Co-Authors: Ma Hai-qun
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    Based on the profound influence analysis of Information and networking technology to the humanity life style,this paper analyzes the influences of Information technology to the production of Information Culture as well as its many kinds of explanations.It also demonstrates and discusses the connotation and the characteristic of Digital Information Culture as well as its value and the construction way.The author proposes that the construction and development of Digital library is the important impetus of the Digital Information Culture construction.

Nicholas Joint - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Choosing between print or Digital collection building in times of financial constraint
    Library Review, 2009
    Co-Authors: Nicholas Joint
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    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether university librarians should spend limited financial resources on library building programmes to house expanding print collections, or give priority to supporting Digital collections and services – even if this forces them to dispose of little used print stock in consequence.Design/methodology/approach – An exploration of opposed concepts by an analytic comparison of two books which take different sides of this argument.Findings – The impact of Digital Information Culture on librarians should be to free them from concerns about disposing of stock in order to release library space to be used for better Digital communication facilities, and to avoid diverting resources into expensive building programmes designed to retain all the print items purchased by libraries over the last 50 years. Resources that in the past would have been spent on warehousing expanding collections should nowadays be spent on buying more intensively used Digital content and re...

Isto Huvila - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Culture of participation
    Information Services and Digital Literacy, 2012
    Co-Authors: Isto Huvila
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    This chapter describes how the Digital Information Culture creates and lowers boundaries of knowing by influencing our assumptions and expectations of participation, contribution, freedom and compensation. The contemporary Culture of participation is penetrated by dichotomies of the Culture of freedom and commercialism, expectations of participation, and the reality of non-participation. Contemporary Culture embodies an expectation that people participate, but, as we see, different forms of participation can be very different from traditional ideas of what participation and engagement mean. Similarly, the rules of participation have shifted and a new economy of participation with new boundaries to withhold and intra has emerged.