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Glittering in the dark: Memory, culture, and critique in light of the history of information
Author(s) -
La Barre Kathryn,
Buckland Michael K.,
Arafat Sachi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501086
Subject(s) - relation (database) , session (web analytics) , information science , field (mathematics) , the arts , position (finance) , sociology , epistemology , social science , library science , computer science , visual arts , world wide web , philosophy , art , mathematics , finance , database , pure mathematics , economics
An ethical and human‐centered approach to Information Science requires rigorous, historically‐informed analysis of both the resources that inform this discipline and the cultural role it inhabits. This session will present and discuss significant recent developments in the history and foundations of the field. ASIST has formally established a new volunteer administrative position of ASIST Curator. Kathryn La Barre, the newly‐appointed Curator, will describe the role and responsibilities of this position and assess the state of Information Science history in relation to the conference themes. In two complementary reports: Michael Buckland will examine theoretical accounts of the materials made use of in Information Science; and Sachi Arafat will explain why Information Retrieval and Information Science should be integrated and rethought as a science of technology‐mediated experience, and how this new kind of science relates to the pre‐modern memory arts tradition.