Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge  A Multidisciplinary Approach /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Thomas M Dousa. 
 - Dordrecht :  Springer Netherlands,  2014. 
 - 1 online resource (VI, 331 p.) 
 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,  34  0929-6425 ; .
<br/><br/>Introduction; Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas Dousa -- Chapter 1: Cybersemiotics: A new foundation for transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition, meaning, communication and consciousness; Søren Brier -- Chapter 2: Epistemology and the Study of Social Information within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information;Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- Chapter 3: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers; Luciano Floridi -- Chapter 4: Human communication from the semiotic perspective; Winfried Nöth --   Chapter 5: Mind the gap: transitions between concepts of information in varied domains; Lyn Robinson and David Bawden -- Chapter 6:  Information and the disciplines: A conceptual meta-analysis; Jonathan Furner -- Chapter 7: Epistemological Challenges for Information Science; Ian Cornelius -- Chapter 8: The nature of information science and its core concepts; Birger Hjørland -- Chapter 9: Sylvie Leleu-Merviel. Coalescence in the informational process. Application to visual sense-making. Chapter 10: Understanding users' informational constructs through the affordances of cinematographic images; Michel Labour -- Chapter 11: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: A Case Study; Thomas Dousa -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789400769731 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy.<br/>Epistemology.<br/>Philosophy and science.<br/>Philosophy and social sciences.