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ITA-Vortragsreihe

"Cyberpublishing", new avenues in knowledge transfer

Vortrag von Joost Kircz, KRA-Publishing Research, Amsterdam

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!



Termin:
27.04.2004
17.00

Ort:
Bibliothek des ÖAW-Instituts für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA)
Strohgasse 45, 3. Stock
A-1030 Wien
Anmeldung bitte an: Dr. Helge Torgersen

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