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Facets of Access: A Conceptual and Standard Threats Analysis

Mathiesen, Kay

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Title
Facets of Access: A Conceptual and Standard Threats Analysis
Author(s)
Mathiesen, Kay
Issue Date
2014-03-01
Keyword(s)
  • information access
  • conceptual analysis
  • human rights
Date of Ingest
2014-02-28T12:19:10Z
Abstract
"The concept of information access is central to both Library and Information Science and to human rights discourse and practice. This paper offers a definition of information access and proposes a relational understanding of it. Using a ""standard threat analysis,"" based on the work of political philosopher Henry Shue (1996), the access relation is analyzed in terms of five facets: (1) availability, (2) reachability, (3) findability, (4) comprehensibility, and (5) useability. It is shown how this theory can be synthesized with another prominent account of access (Burnett, Jaeger, and Thompson, 2008) to create a rubric to guide the evaluation and creation of information systems and services that satisfy the human right to information access."
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iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2014 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/14265
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