Subjects: “…behavioural sciences…”

Subjects: “…computer science…”

Subjects:

“…Boyd Rayward -- Understanding the information domain : the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster -- On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland -- A tale of two narratives : prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller -- The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann -- Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet : European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem -- Towers and globes : architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard -- Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web : Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel -- Networking knowledge before the information society : the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. …”

“…"The social science approach to risk has matured over the past two decades, with distinct paradigms developing in disciplines such as anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, and sociology. …”

“…They have drawn both on established work in the history and sociology of technology and on newer feminist perspectives to show just how important and fruitful it is to try to answer that deeper question. …”