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Title: | Concepts for the Study of Information Embodiment |
Author(s): | Bates, Marcia J. |
Subject(s): | Information science
Information Embodied experience Human information practice |
Abstract: | The growing study in information science of the role of the body in human information practice may benefit from the concepts developed around a set of fundamental forms of information previously published by the author. In applying these concepts to the study of human information practice, we see a framework that nicely names and locates the major components of an understanding of information seeking of all types, including that related to the body. We see information in nature, what happens to information when it encounters a nervous system, and how that information is used within nervous systems to both encode and embody the experiences of life. We see information not only in direct encounters with the body but also as it is experienced through extensions of the body, used for both input and output purposes. We also see information in the body in relation to a larger framework of forms of information encompassing both internal and external (exosomatic) information. Finally, a selective review is provided of related research and theory from biology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, which supports and deepens our understanding of the approach taken here to information embodiment. |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
Citation Info: | Bates, Marcia J."Concepts for the Study of Information Embodiment." Library Trends, vol. 66 no. 3, 2018, pp. 239-266. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/lib.2018.0002 |
Series/Report: | Library Trends 66 (3). Winter 2018 |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101418 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0002 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2018 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2018-09-19 2020-03-31 |
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Library Trends 66 (3) Winter 2018: Information and the Body: Part 1
Library Trends 66 (3) Winter 2018: Information and the Body: Part 1. Edited by Andrew M. Cox, Brian Griffin, and Jenna Hartel