Information arts and information science: time to unite?

Date
2006
Authors
Karamuftuoglu, M.
Advisor
Instructor
Source Title
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Print ISSN
1532-2882
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Publisher
Wiley
Volume
57
Issue
13
Pages
1780 - 1793
Language
English
Type
Article
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Abstract

This article explicates the common ground between two currently independent fields of Inquiry, namely information arts and information science, and suggests a frame-work that could unite them as a single field of study. The article defines and clarifies the meaning of information art and presents an axiological framework that could be used to judge the value of works of information art. The axiological framework is applied to examples of works of information art to demonstrate its use. The article argues that both Information arts and Information science could be studied under a common framework; namely, the domain-analytic or sociocognitive approach. It also is argued that the unification of the two fields could help enhance the meaning and scope of both information science and information arts and therefore be beneficial to both fields.

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Keywords
Cognitive systems, Information analysis, Social aspects, Information art, Sociocognitive, Information science
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