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The Dispositif
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The Dispositif

by Valerie Larroche
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
244 pages
6h 45m
English
Wiley-ISTE
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Preface

This book is part of the set: “Concepts to Conceive 21st Century Society”. This set is a state of the art collection of the latest theoretical developments started by researchers in Information and Communication Sciences (ICS) embracing their discipline. The authors of the set have put forward an interplay of concepts employed in the ICS community. These concepts are also used in other disciplines related to the humanities and social sciences (history, sociology, economics, linguistics, psychology, etc.) besides often fitting in line with the concerns of science and technology researchers (ergonomics, artificial intelligence, data analysis, etc.).

In this set, we aim to highlight the theoretical approaches used in ICS, which is often regarded as a cross-disciplinary field, from a deliberately conceptual point of view. We thought that this was the right choice to supplement the different epistemological works that have already been carried out in the field.

To describe in further detail the perspective adopted in each of these works, we should point out that it represents the point of view of researchers in ICS with a didactic aim and an epistemological focus. We will start by considering ICS as an academic discipline that contributes to the creation and dissemination of knowledge related to information and communication.

Thus, our theoretical reflection will be based on the analysis of a series of concepts widely used by the ICS community, and we will aim to make it ...

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