Event

School of Information Studies Presentation: Information in our World. Lai Ma

Monday, May 28, 2012 10:30to12:30
Room 106, 3661 Peel, Room 106, 3661 Peel, CA

Join us for a talk by Lai Ma, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University-Bloomington.

The systematic storage of information relocates the negotiation of meanings within information infrastructures and plays a major role in the conceptualization of information as ‘empirical information.’

Information is technicized when information infrastructures exert strategic powers in altering social behaviors and actions while bypassing processes of consensus formation. Social norms and practices, including ‘information behaviour’ and ‘information need’, are hence produced and reproduced not only through cultural knowledge and personal experiences, but also values embedded in information infrastructures as well as the types of information that has been collected, stored, and made accessible in socio-technical systems.

Everyone is welcome.

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