Foundations of Information Science
Pioneers of Information Science
Today, we have two videos.
The first is about an individual who is here called the "Father of the Information Age".
Claude Shannon
If you are curious, and only if you are seriously curious, you might want to look at his original article. It has been cited over 64,000 times.
Shannon, C. E. (1948). A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
The Bell System Technical Journal, 27, 379-423, 623-656.
In the second, Dr. Jenna Hartel intoduces us to one of the important papers in the field we are considering, and to the author.
Since we watched a discussion of Marcia Bates' paper, we might want to read it ourselves.
Bates, M. J. (1999). The invisible substrate of information science. Journal of the American society for information science, 50(12), 1043-1050.
A few more to consider if you want to get deeper into the history.
Some books about early thinkers, more in the world of working with information than the science of it, but illustrative of the foundations.
- THE MAN FROM THE FUTURE: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
- Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
And an article to read about the evolution of thinking in the field of information science.
Hartel, J. (2019). Turn, turn, turn. In Proceedings of CoLIS, the Tenth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 16-19, 2019. Information Research, 24(4)
Or, you may find watching a video is a better method.
Diljit Dosanjh
Diljit Dosanjh is an Indian singer, actor and television presenter. Born in a small village Dosanjh Kalan, Jalandhar, Punjab, India, today he is recognized as one of the leading artists in the Punjabi music industry. He also acts in Punjabi movies, with many of them being noticeable hits, including 2012 film Jatt & Juliet, 2013 film Jatt & Juliet 2 and 2015 film Sardaar Ji - which are counted among the most successful Punjabi movies in history. (Last.fm)