Termin:
27.04.2004
17.00

"Cyberpublishing", new avenues in knowledge transfer

Every new technology induces new ways of information gathering and knowledge

formation. The advent of the printing press created the capability of having

the same information available for everybody, independent of place and time of

writing as well as reading. This emphasis on text enhanced jurisprudence as

well as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution, but reduced the

rhetorical power of orality and diminished the role of images. Images became

illustrations to the text. In an electronic environment we see again a sea

change by bringing back non-textual presentations. In the extreme case of,

e.g., a medical MRI scan we have the picture as primary information and the

text as explication of the image.

Also, the style of communication will change again. In print we lost rhyme and

rhythm and invented the essay form of linear text. As a Cyber environment can

be defined as an electronically based network where "knowledge objects" can be

re-used and multiply used at will, the definition of an information unit is up

for review. In this seminar academic research will be presented that tries to

define the new paradigm of modular information presentation. It becomes

clear that semantic units are not enough. Also a new grammar of relationships

between objects has to be developed. But don't worry peer review as a method of

quality control will survive!

Anmeldung bitte an: Dr. Helge Torgersen

Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung

Strohgasse 45/5, 1030 Wien

Tel: (+43 1) 710 25 10 / 6587

E-Mail: tamail@oeaw.ac.at

Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung