European modernism and the information society
Subtitle: informing the present, understanding the past
By: [edited by] by W. Boyd Rayward.
Contributors: Rayward, W. Boyd, 1939-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754649281
Subjects: Information science -- Europe -- History; Documentation -- Europe -- History; Information society -- Europe; Knowledge, Sociology of -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: European modernism and the information society : conceptual interdependence / W. Boyd Rayward; title: Understanding the information domain : the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster; title: On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland; title: A tale of two narratives : prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller; title: The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann; title: Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet : European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem; title: Towers and globes : architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard; title: Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web : Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel; title: Networking knowledge before the information society : the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. Jast / Alistair Black; title: Documentation and utopia : Fabian anticipations of the information society / Alistair S. Duff; title: Public science in Britain and the origins of documentation and information science, 1890-1950 / Dave Muddiman; title: The march of the modern and the reconstitution of the world's knowledge apparatus : H.G. Wells, encyclopedism, and the world brain / W. Boyd Rayward; title: The modern museum in the age of its mechanical reproducibility : Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna / Nader Vossoughian; title: Gesellschaft und wirtschaft : an encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's pictorial statistics from 1930 / Sybilla Nikolow; title: Visualizing social facts : Otto Neurath's isotype project / Frank Hartmann; title: Paper parasite : F.M. Feldhaus and the historiography of technology / Markus Krajewski; title: Roots of mediating information : aspects of the German information movement / Thomas Hapke.