Post written by David Bawden and Lyn Robinson And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man’sthoughts for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clearaway, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many… Continue reading A voice out of the dark of time; the once and future LIS discipline
Tag: Luciano Floridi
Content in an age of GenAI: Floridi on implications and directions
Readers of this blog will know that I regard Luciano Floridi as one of the more insightful guides to the conceptual issues of a rapidly changing information environment, and his philosophy of information as a valuable basis for library/information science. In an open access editorial in Philosophy and Technology (31st August 2024), Floridi explores the… Continue reading Content in an age of GenAI: Floridi on implications and directions
Super-science, fundamental dimension, way of being: Library and information science in an age of messages
This is a slightly modified version of a chapter by Lyn Robinson and myself, published in Information cultures in the digital age: a festschrift in honor of Rafael Capurro. M Kelly and J Bielby (eds). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016, pp 31-43. Introduction Rafael Capurro’s body of writings encompass a wide and diverse set of issues… Continue reading Super-science, fundamental dimension, way of being: Library and information science in an age of messages
Into the infosphere: theory, literacy and education for new forms of document
This is a slightly revised version of a chapter contributed by myself and Lyn Robinson to a Festschrift in honour of our colleague Professor Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić, of the University of Zadar in Croatia. We came to know Tatjana particularly through the LIDA conferences, of which she has been the inspiration and main organiser, through her… Continue reading Into the infosphere: theory, literacy and education for new forms of document
The Occasional Informationist 