Relevance and Irrelevance: Theories, Factors and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9783110470185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 316 str.

Jan Strassheim;Hisashi Nasu

Opis

Relevance drives our actions, it channels our attention and shapes the way we construe the world around us and communicate with others. Irrelevance spreads a twilight in which it is often hard to distinguish between information we do not wish or need to access and information we cannot access. Relevance has been researched as a central problem in a broad range of areas such as the sociology of knowledge, phenomenology, information science, linguistics, or cognitive science. This book is the first to bring the often unrelated traditions together in an interdisciplinary discussion. Relevance is investigated along with the corresponding challenges of irrelevance, which have so far been neglected despite their significance for our chances of making well-informed decisions and understanding others. The contributions to the volume focus on theoretical and conceptual questions, on specific factors and fields and their development, and on practical and political implications of relevance and irrelevance as forces which are even stronger where they remain in the background.

O autorze

Hisashi Nasu and Jan Strassheim, Waseda University Tokyo, Japan.