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Western Devaluation Of Knowledcb
Charles B. Osburn
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Hardback. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 624.
The Western Devaluation of Knowledge is an exploration of the causes and effects of Western cultural changes that have evolved during the past half millennium of industrialization to diminish the value of knowledge as process. Western culture has developed a conceptualization and valuation of knowledge that reverses the traditional knowledge continuum that connects data (information) to understanding. As a result, we displace the subjective and human features of knowledge with automated systems that conforms with information and devalues the knowledge process. This book explains this change as a result of the industrial influences that began to gain strength in ... Read more
The Western Devaluation of Knowledge is an exploration of the causes and effects of Western cultural changes that have evolved during the past half millennium of industrialization to diminish the value of knowledge as process. Western culture has developed a conceptualization and valuation of knowledge that reverses the traditional knowledge continuum that connects data (information) to understanding. As a result, we displace the subjective and human features of knowledge with automated systems that conforms with information and devalues the knowledge process. This book explains this change as a result of the industrial influences that began to gain strength in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442228795
SKU
V9781442228795
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About Charles B. Osburn
Charles Osburn is Dean and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama Libraries. From 1980-2001, Osburn was dean of the libraries at the University of Alabama and the University of Cincinnati, prior to which appointments he was an assistant director in the libraries of Northwestern University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He began his library career ... Read more
Reviews for Western Devaluation Of Knowledcb
The Western Devaluation of Knowledge by Charles B. Osburn is a historical account of how knowledge and information have become conflated in capitalist/consumerist society. It is a valued contribution to those in the library field who are trying to think broadly about the transformations brought about by the information revolution.
David E. Woolwine, Associate Professor of Library Services and ... Read more
David E. Woolwine, Associate Professor of Library Services and ... Read more