Document (#38768)

Author

Compton, B.W.

Title

Ontology in information studies : without, within, and withal knowledge management

Source

Journal of documentation. 70(2014) no.3, S.425-442

Year

2014

Abstract

Purpose - Ontology in information studies consists of antinomic conceptions, methodologies, and emphases in both application and philosophizing. A comprehensive understanding of ontology in information studies can be achieved by employing Slavoj Zizek's parallax view which holds that reality is not only best understood by articulating conflicting perspectives on a particular phenomenon, but that given phenomena are fundamentally constrained by incommensurable perspectives that must be acknowledged accordingly. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach - Ontology in information studies, including computational ontology development, is analyzed using critical information theory based on Heideggerian, poststructuralist, and anti-postmodern philosophy. The discussion is framed by Zizek's notion of the parallax Real. Findings - A complete understanding of ontology in information studies that does not reduce ontology to a totalizing theory or sequester notions of ontology to conflicting, unrelated discourses, necessarily accepts articulating the alterity between differing ontological views as the means by which one can best allude to what "ontology in information studies really is." Originality/value - This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of radically different ontological perspectives on the nature of reality with respect to digital technology.

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