TY - BOOK AU - Ibekwe-SanJuan,Fidelia AU - Dousa,Thomas M TI - Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Approach SN - 9789400769731 PY - 2014/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Netherlands KW - Philosophy KW - Epistemology KW - Philosophy and science KW - Philosophy and social sciences N1 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1 ER -