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

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."

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47410

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14265

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