Information is notoriously a polymorphic phenomenon and a polysemantic concept so, as an explicandum, it can be associated with several explanations, depending on the level of abstraction (Floridi [2008]) adopted and the cluster of requirements and desiderata orientating a theory. The reader may wish to keep this in mind while reading this entry, where some schematic simplifications and interpretative decisions will be inevitable.

Because of the recent, shared emphasis in many fields on digital methods, scholars in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and sciences increasingly need to collaborate across disciplines. This course reflects theoretically and practically on the new digitally facilitated interdisciplinarity by asking students to choose a literary work and treat it according to one or more of the research paradigms prevalent in other fields of study.

The Epistemological Lifeboat is an attempt to guide students and researchers into the complex field of epistemology/philosophy of science.

A major component of the proposed work concerns developing the foundations of bi-directional programming languages, in which every program denotes a pair of functions---one for extracting a view of some complex data structure, and another for ``putting ba

Langue represents the “work of a collective intelligence”, which is both internal to each individual and beyond the will of any individual to change. Parole designates individual events of language use manifesting each time a speaker’s ephemeral ind

Competence is our tacit, internalised knowledge of a language. Performance is external evidence of language competence, and is usage on particular occasions when factors other than our linguistic competence may affect its form.

Over the course of his research and teaching, he has developed theoretically driven methodologies that allow broad conclusions to be drawn from ethnographic research and case studies.

The Semantic Web (and the web in general) is a co-ordination problem among a large number of publishers and consumers of information that do minimal communication with each other.

Design research involves the analysis of the use and performance of designed artifacts to understand, explain and very frequently to improve on the behavior of aspects of Information Systems.

RST is intended to describe texts, rather than the processes of creating or reading and understanding them. It posits various sorts of "building blocks" which can be observed to occur in texts.

Composing, nurturing, collecting, maintaining, and making associations within information; the environments and related tools in which these activities take place; and the theory behind these activities and environments.

Concerned with the design of appropriate logics to model the flow of information. Theory of IR.

The VlogTheory wiki is a work in progress (aren't they all?) to support research into the theory and practice of videoblogging.

The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the Internet is the decentralised access to unedited stories. In this medium, contributions by intellectuals lose their power to create a focus.

Research interests are information technology and organizational behavior, social networks, and organizational theory.

At this multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary symposium we shall attempt to investigate and analyse these new effects and the changed role of the image in society.

This is a basic subject on matrix theory and linear algebra. Emphasis is given to topics that will be useful in other disciplines, including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, similarity, and positive definite matrices.

We will take up themes—partially overlapping—that are connected to everyday life: codes of conduct (etiquette), taste, style, self-presentation, (house) work, time, space, privacy, and resistance.

Debates over the creative and emancipatory potential of vernacular culture will move us towards a critical theory of everyday life.

An excellent guide to the development of actor-network theory.

To get a 'Flickr for maps' we first need a 'digital camera for location.'

The McLuhan Program's mandate is to encourage understanding of the impacts of technology on culture and society from theoretical and practical perspectives, and thus to continue the ground-breaking work initiated by Marshall McLuhan.

A product displays positive network effects when more usage of the product by any user increases the product's value for other users (and sometimes all users).

The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service.

The seminar will explore the technical, social and cultural aspects of informative objects in any and all forms (aka 'documents').

It is the rare learner who will sit at a computer and willingly watch a 20 or 30-minute presentation. However, the same learners are happy to listen to an audio file (podcast or book on tape).

Social theory for fans of popular culture. Popular culture for fans of social theory.

David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Audiences at the Media School, University of Bournemouth.

Closures are one of the most powerful features of ECMAScript (javascript) but they cannot be property exploited without understanding them.

I see only functional, structural, behavioural and developmental models. People... are reduced to something programmable. And I think this has something to do with why computing technologies ultimately lack the pervasiveness of other technologies.

It is becoming popular in our affluent society to rank income in attention above money income.

Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power.

The world's foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color.

His way of developing theory is like Bergson⊘'s one on time and memory, but his theory of time has variations that are reflected in various films and becomes a profound notion of the world with dynamic extension.

Gregory Bateson made substantial contributions to many fields of science...

I have to answer "a reader" from Los Angeles who wrote of the book's (in)completeness...

The value of genre theory for content engineering is, that it helps to look at the design problems from a different perspective, and to ask a different type of questions with a broader scope than prevailing usability engineering strategies raise.

I provide definitions of both new media and new media theory; I attempt to briefly situate and justify the topic as a worthwhile discipline; and above all I try to make it more accessible to those new to the field.

A list of resources and information about activity theory.