Title Indexing it all : the subject in the age of documentation, information, and data / Ronald E. Day

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Mit Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 170 pages) Series History and foundations of information science History and foundations of information science. Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Inroduction -- 2. Paul Otlet : friends and books for information needs -- 3. Representing documents and persons in information systems : library and information science and citation indexing and analysis -- 4. Social computing and the indexing of the whole -- 5. The document as a subject : androids -- 6. Governing expression : social big data and neoliberalism -- 7. Conclusion. The modern documentary tradition and site and time of critique Summary "In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He examines the transition as indexes went from being explicit professional structures that mediated users and documents to being implicit infrastructural devices used in everyday information and communication acts. Doing so, he also traces three epistemic eras in the representation of individuals and groups, first in the forms of documents, then information, then data. Day investigates five cases from the modern tradition of documentation. He considers the socio-technical instrumentalism of Paul Otlet, "the father of European documentation" (contrasting it to the hermeneutic perspective of Martin Heidegger); the shift from documentation to information science and the accompanying transform tion of persons and texts into users and information; social media's use of algorithms, further subsuming persons and texts; attempts to build android robots--to embody human agency within an information system that resembles a human being; and social "big data" as a technique of neoliberal governance that employs indexing and analytics for purposes of surveillance. Finally, Day considers the status of critique and judgment at a time when people and their rights of judgment are increasingly mediated, displaced, and replaced by modern documentary techniques." Analysis INFORMATION SCIENCE/General INFORMATION SCIENCE/Library Science Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index Notes Print version record Subject Documentation -- History Documentation -- Social aspects Information science -- Philosophy Information science -- Social aspects Indexing -- Social aspects Subject (Philosophy) Information technology -- Social aspects LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General. Documentation Information science -- Philosophy Information science -- Social aspects Information technology -- Social aspects Subject (Philosophy) Dokumentationssprache Informations- und Dokumentationswissenschaft Dokumentation. Indexering. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0262322773 9780262322775 1322151342 9781322151342

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