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Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information Practice

Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information Practice

Kelly, Matthew

Hardcover

Series: Current Topics in Library and Information Practice

PhilosophyGeneral ReferenceGeneral Science

ISBN10: 3111346307
ISBN13: 9783111346304
Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 577
Weight: 2.17
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information Practice is an interdisciplinary inquiry focusing on four decades of work by the South African information scientist, Emeritus Professor Archie Dick. The edited volume brings together library, information and history specialists to engage with a number of Professor Dick's areas of research focus: the culture and philosophy of information (especially with regard to questions of epistemology); information freedom (how censorship and media concentration affects political agency); reading and publishing cultures (especially in colonial and postcolonial contexts) and focuses on how these affect information education for diverse, multicultural and cosmopolitan communities. How our understanding of true belief is justified at the level of classification, indexation, curation and publishing have become significant issues in the transition to digital environments. This work seeks to harness a range of insights relating to the modes of knowledge representation in information spaces and to uncover how these impact globally significant repertoires of agency, with a special focus on how the mediation of reading and access to public knowledge is both a site of resistance and appropriation.

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