Debate on Inter-Transdisciplinarity of Information Science

ISBN-13: 9786203928525 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str.

Jose Rascão; George Jamil; Maria Beatriz Marques

Opis

This book presents the conceptual evolution of the terms disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of Information Science, based on a consolidated theoretical framework. Its main objective is to analyze the scientific research developed in the context of interdisciplinarity of information in more than one area of knowledge.It contemplates the epistemological discussion of information, object of study of Information Science, in its different approaches, especially cognitive, economic and political. The relationships and distinctions between the different concepts of information, as well as the contexts and applications of information and its characteristics of transversality and interdisciplinarity, are emphasized.

O autorze

Rascão, Jose Jose Poças Rascão (PhD, ISCTE / ULI) is a Professor of Management Information Systems at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal. George Jamil ,Brazil, has a Post-doctoral degree from Faculdade de Letras of Universidade do Porto.Maria Beatriz Marques is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra, Portugal.