No news is bad news-trading information

Wittenberg, Dan No news is bad news-trading information., 2001 . In 10ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών, Θεσσαλονίκη (GR), 2001. [Conference paper]

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The social organization of modern labor can made, our daily work as an infinite succession of mechanic tasks. This paper aims to bring some other view, from a different perspective, using a functionalist and comparative/historical approach for getting the answer to basic questions: what are we doing? Where are we going to? What is the nature of the complex relationships between the actors of the Information industry: the librarians, the Ministries of Education, the academic departments, the authors, the publishers and the subscription agencies? Can we try and define the present situation of the Information industry also from a Social Sciences angle? What is this industry main function? Taking a more Political Science direction, the paper then looks at the agents able to ameliorate the flow of information inside a civilization made of various groups, and between people in general. Besides the new "hi-tech" developments in the information industry and trade, some problems jeopardize the information access to all. What are the possible solutions to cure the problem? And is there place for state intervention in a free market?

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Political Communication, Information Industry, Political Sciences, Scientific Literature.
Subjects:	A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields . B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AA. Library and information science as a field.
Depositing user:	Andreas K. Andreou
Date deposited:	27 Jun 2007
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:08
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9732

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