Synopsis
Introduction; Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas Dousa.- Chapter 1: Cybersemiotics: A new foundation for transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition, meaning, communication and consciousness; Søren Brier.- Chapter 2: Epistemology and the Study of Social Information within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information;Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- Chapter 3: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers; Luciano Floridi.- Chapter 4: Human communication from the semiotic perspective; Winfried Nöth.-
Chapter 5: Mind the gap: transitions between concepts of information in varied domains; Lyn Robinson and David Bawden.- Chapter 6: Information and the disciplines: A conceptual meta-analysis; Jonathan Furner.- Chapter 7: Epistemological Challenges for Information Science; Ian Cornelius.- Chapter 8: The nature of information science and its core concepts; Birger Hjørland.-
Chapter 9: Sylvie Leleu-Merviel. Coalescence in the informational process. Application to visual sense-making. Chapter 10: Understanding users' informational constructs through the affordances of cinematographic images; Michel Labour.- Chapter 11: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: A Case Study; Thomas Dousa.- Index.
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