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  1. Frohmann, B.: Communication technologies and the politics of postmodern information science (1994) 0.03 
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    Source
    Canadian journal of information and library science. 19(1994) no.2, S.1-22
  2. Frohmann, B.: Subjectivity and information ethics (2008) 0.01 
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    Abstract
    In A Brief History of Information Ethics, Thomas Froehlich (2004) quickly surveyed under several broad categories some of the many issues that constitute information ethics: under the category of librarianship - censorship, privacy, access, balance in collections, copyright, fair use, and codes of ethics; under information science, which Froehlich sees as closely related to librarianship - confidentiality, bias, and quality of information; under computer ethics - intellectual property, privacy, fair representation, nonmaleficence, computer crime, software reliability, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce; under cyberethics (issues related to the Internet, or cyberspace) - expert systems, artificial intelligence (again), and robotics; under media ethics - news, impartiality, journalistic ethics, deceit, lies, sexuality, censorship (again), and violence in the press; and under intercultural information ethics - digital divide, and the ethical role of the Internet for social, political, cultural, and economic development. Many of the debates in information ethics, on these and other issues, have to do with specific kinds of relationships between subjects. The most important subject and a familiar figure in information ethics is the ethical subject engaged in moral deliberation, whether appearing as the bearer of moral rights and obligations to other subjects, or as an agent whose actions are judged, whether by others or by oneself, according to the standards of various moral codes and ethical principles. Many debates in information ethics revolve around conflicts between those acting according to principles of unfettered access to information and those finding some information offensive or harmful. Subjectivity is at the heart of information ethics. But how is subjectivity understood? Can it be understood in ways that broaden ethical reflection to include problems that remain invisible when subjectivity is taken for granted and when how it is created remains unquestioned? This article proposes some answers by investigating the meaning and role of subjectivity in information ethics.[In an article on cyberethics (2000), I asserted that there was no information ethics in any special sense beyond the application of general ethical principles to information services. Here, I take a more expansive view.]
  3. Frohmann, B.: Cognitive paradigms and user needs (1992) 0.01 
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    Abstract
    The recent library and information science (LIS) literature has found, in cognitive models of knowledge organization, the promise of a new and fruitful paradigm for the discipline. Cognitive models of knowledge organization have been employed to articulate fundamental theory for LIS (Belkin; Dervin and Nilan), and to explicate models of the discipline itself (Greene), as well as explore the ramifications of new conceptualizations of such specific LIS concerns as reference work (Ingwersen; Dervin), indexing (Farrow), children's services (Moore and St. George), classification (Beghtol; Hori), search behaviour (Dalrymple; Kuhlthau; Logan), and information retrieval. One of the chief benefits claimed for cognitive paradigms is the shift brought about in our understanding of information processes, from system needs to user needs. The shift is theorized by means of methodologies for the description and explanation of the cognitive organization of knowledge within individual minds, and the means by which these cognitive knowledge organizations can be harmonized with the knowledge organized in databases of various kinds. The aim of this paper is to investigate the claim that cognitive paradigms effect a shift from system needs to user needs
    Imprint
    Bangalore : Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science
  4. Frohmann, B.: ¬The power of images : a discourse analysis of the cognitive viewpoint (1992) 0.01 
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    Abstract
    A discourse analysis of the cognitive viewpoint in library and information science identifies seven discourse strategies which constitute information as a commodity, and persons as surveyable information consumers, within market economy conditions. These strategies are: (a) universality of theory, (b) referentiality and reification of 'images', (c) internalisation of representations (d) radical individualism and erasure of the social dimension of theory, (e) insistence upon knowledge, (f) constitution of the information scientist as an expert in image negotiation, and (g) instrumental reason, ruled by efficiency, standardisation, predictibility, and determination of effects. The discourse is guided throughout by a yearning for natural-scientific theory. The effect of the cognitive viewpoint's discursive strategy is to enable knowledge acquisition of information processes only when users' and generators 'images' are constituted as objectively given natural-scientific entities, and ti disable knowledge of the same processes when considered as products of social practices. By its constitution of users as free creators of images, of the information scientist as an expert in image interpretation and delivery, and of databases as repositories of unmediated models of the world, the cognitive viewpoint performs ideological labour for modern capitalist image markets
  5. Frohmann, B.: Documentation redux : prolegomenon to (another) philosophy of information (2004) 0.01 
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    Source
    Library trends. 52(2004) no.3, S.387-407
  6. Frohmann, B.: Knowledge and power in information science : toward a discourse analysis of the cognitive viewpoint (1995) 0.00 
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    Abstract
    A discourse analysis of the cognitive viewpoint in library and information science (LIS) identifies seven discursive strategies which constitute information as a commodity, and persons as surveyable information consumers, within market economy conditions. These strategies are (a) universality of theory, (b) referentiality and reification of 'images', (c) internationalization of representation, (d) insistence upon knowledge, (e) constitution of the information scientists as an expert in image negotiation, (f) radical individualism and erasure of the social dimension of theory, and (g) instrumental reasons, rules by efficiency, standardization, predictibility,a nd determination of effects. The discourse is guided troughout by a yearning for natural-scientific theory. The effect of the cognitiv viewpoint's discoursive strategy is to anable knowledge acquisition of information processes only when users' and generators 'images' are constituted as objectively given natural scientif entites, and to disable knowledge of the same processes when considered as products of social practices. By its constitution of users as free creators of images, of the information scientist as an expert in image interpretation and delivery, and of databases as repositories of unmediated models of the world, the cognitive viewpoint performs ideological labour for modern capitalist image markets

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