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Informed Consent: Information Production and Ideology
Lisa R. Schiff
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Description for Informed Consent: Information Production and Ideology
paperback. In this text, Lisa Schiff analyzes the interplay bewteen ideology and information. Through research on how information about the homeless is generated, she offers evidence for "how service providers create forms and clients complete them, how surveys are administered and agencies compile counts. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: GPH; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
How many Americans are homeless? Although taking a census may sound simple, ensuring an accurate count is the least of its problems. Census takers in all walks of life exercise great care in determining what information is to be collected, how it is to be recorded, and how the findings are ultimately to be presented. But who decides which evaluation frameworks and indicators are to be used? Do all concerned-census takers and respondents view those indicators in the same manner? Do institutional and social imperatives outweigh individual bias and perspective? And if so, is that really what we ... Read more
How many Americans are homeless? Although taking a census may sound simple, ensuring an accurate count is the least of its problems. Census takers in all walks of life exercise great care in determining what information is to be collected, how it is to be recorded, and how the findings are ultimately to be presented. But who decides which evaluation frameworks and indicators are to be used? Do all concerned-census takers and respondents view those indicators in the same manner? Do institutional and social imperatives outweigh individual bias and perspective? And if so, is that really what we ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810839038
SKU
V9780810839038
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99-15
About Lisa R. Schiff
Lisa Schiff is currently an Information Engineer at Interwoven, Inc. She has studied social aspects of information in many disparate areas, from information access to information system evaluation and design. She has also been involved in projects promoting the creation, sharing and use of information, especially in the realm of community education.
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