Theory Development in the Information Sciences /

Theory Development in the Information Sciences / / ed. by Diane H. Sonnenwald.

Emerging as a discipline in the first half of the twentieth century, the information sciences study how people, groups, organizations, and governments create, share, disseminate, manage, search, access, evaluate, and protect information, as well as how different technologies and policies can facilit...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bates, Marcia J.,
Bawden, David,
Buckland, Michael K.,
Carroll, John M.,
Chang, Shanju Lin,
Crew, Hilary S.,
Dillon, Andrew,
Järvelin, Kalervo,
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier,
Mcgann, Jerome,
Meadows, Jack,
Nardi, Bonnie,
Olson, Gary M.,
Olson, Judith S.,
Saracevic, Tefko,
Sonnenwald, Diane H.,
Thelwall, Mike,
HerausgeberIn:
Sonnenwald, Diane H.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 EXPLORING THEORY DEVELOPMENT: LEARNING FROM DIVERSE MASTERS
  • Part 1 BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
  • Chapter 2 MANY PATHS TO THEORY: THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN THE INFORMATION SCIENCES
  • Chapter 3 REFLECTIONS ON THEORY CONSTRUCTION IN HUMAN INFORMATION BEHAVIOR: A THEORY OF BROWSING
  • Chapter 4 REFLECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
  • Chapter 5 CONVERGING ON THEORY FROM FOUR SIDES
  • Part 2 EVALUATION
  • Chapter 6 DRAWING GRAPHS FOR THEORY DEVELOPMENT IN BIBLIOMETRICS AND RETRIEVAL
  • Chapter 7 TWO VIEWS ON THEORY DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
  • Chapter 8 RELEVANCE: IN SEARCH OF A THEORETICAL FOUNDATION
  • Chapter 9 THE STORY OF A COLONY: THEORY DEVELOPMENT IN WEBOMETRIC RESEARCH
  • Part 3 DESIGN
  • Chapter 10 THEORIZING THE UNPRECEDENTED
  • Chapter 11 APPROPRIATING THEORY
  • Chapter 12 THEORY FOR DESIGN: THE CASE OF READING
  • Part 4 CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
  • Chapter 13 THE POVERTY OF THEORY; OR, THE EDUCATION OF JEROME MCGANN
  • Chapter 14 ILLUMINATING DAUGHTER-MOTHER NARRATIVES IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION
  • Chapter 15 THE NOBLEST PLEASURE: THEORIES OF UNDERSTANDING IN THE INFORMATION SCIENCES
  • Chapter 16 APOLOGIA PRO THEORIA SUA
  • Chapter 17 SUPPORTING FUTURE THEORY DEVELOPMENT
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index

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