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The Case against Information and the Body in Library and Information Science

Hartel, Jenna

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Title
The Case against Information and the Body in Library and Information Science
Author(s)
Hartel, Jenna
Issue Date
2018
Keyword(s)
  • Information science
  • Information
  • Embodied experience
  • Empirical research
Abstract
What follows is an editorial that makes a case against the development of an empirical research frontier in library and information science (LIS) devoted to information and the body. My goal is to offer a sober and constructive counterbalance to this Library Trends special issue that is otherwise uncritical of its proposition. In asserting that original research into embodied information may be unproductive for our field, I draw from my personal experience and reflections as well as foundational conceptions of LIS from past and contemporary luminaries. My conclusion reminds all stakeholders in this Library Trends special issue of the many fascinating and urgent research questions that remain unanswered within the conventional boundaries of LIS.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 66 (4). Spring 2018
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101438
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0018
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Copyright 2018 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 66 (4) Spring 2018: Information and the Body: Part 2 PRIMARY
Library Trends 66 (4) Spring 2018: Information and the Body: Part 2. Edited by Andrew M. Cox, Brian Griffin, and Jenna Hartel