Foundations of informing science (Google eBook)

T. Grandon Gill, T. Grandon Gill & Eli Cohen (eds), Eli B. Cohen

Informing Science

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User Review -

Chapter 7 on Task Complexity provides a brilliant synthesis on the subject. The remaining chapters are equally well researched. Saviour (Steve) M. Filletti.

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Peter Bednar suggested that Chapter 13 "Use and Redesign of Informing Systems: Lessons to Learn from Philosophizing and Practicing" by Hans-Erik Nissen, is really worth reading.

Contents

• Introduction to the Foundations of Informing Science: 1
• Reconceptualizing Information Systems as a Field of the Discipline Informing Science From Ugly Duckling to Swan: 7
• Informing Science at a Crossroads The Role of the Client: 21
• Informing Systems for Operations A Teleological View: 57
• Expanding the Concept of Usability: 113
• Information and Informing Science: 135
• Task Complexity and Informing Science A Synthesis: 159
• Utility and Informing: 197
• Informing Resonance Beyond Rigor and Relevance: 239
• Informing for Operations The First Principia: 287
• Informing Processes Risks Evaluation of the Risk of Misinforming: 323
• The Rugged Fitness Landscape and Informing Science Research: 357
• Use and Redesign of Informing Systems Lessons to Learn from Philosophizing and Practicing: 411
• Inquiry into Informing Systems Critical Systemic Thinking in Practice: 459
• An Information System for a Bauxite Mine: 503
• Information Politics and Information Culture A Case Study: 521
• Informing Citizens in a Highly Restrictive Environment Using LowBudget Multimedia Communications A Serbian Case Study: 577
• Cyberdating Disinformation and Distrust in Online Interaction: 619
• Web ACE A Study in Reciprocal Informing: 643
• The Role of Informing Science in Establishing Research Context An Integrated Model of Collaborative Knowledge Building Process: 661
• The Poverty of Empiricism: 709
• Routine versus Nonroutine Informing Reflections on What I Have Learned: 739
• A Philosophy of Informing Science: 767

Bibliographic information

• Title: Foundations of informing science
• Authors: T. Grandon Gill, T. Grandon Gill & Eli Cohen (eds), Eli B. Cohen
• Publisher: Informing Science
• ISBN: 193288615X, 9781932886153