ICT 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interdisciplinarity
23 Aug 2018
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Defining Information Policy
Sandra Braman
●As of today, new scholarly journals are created when new audiences and communities of
scholarly practices appear (p. 1)
●“The interdisciplinarity of the community of scholarly practice engaged in information
policy analysis is exemplified in the fact that the editors of this new journal sit in a
college of communications rather than in either an information science unit or a law
school” (p. 1)
●“The earliest use of the phrase ‘information policy’ by governments actually referred to
propaganda efforts during World War 1” (p. 2)
●“Through information policy creates the conditions under which all other decision
making, public discourse, and political activity take place, it was long considered ‘law
policy’ of relative unimportance” (p. 2)
●“Marking the boundaries of the domain with ‘information creation, processing, flows,
access, and use’ provides a synthetic and succinct heuristic that meets important
evaluative criteria” (p. 3)
○It is invalid
○It is comprehensive
○It is theoretically sound
○It is methodologically operationalizable
○It is translatable
Document Summary
As of today, new scholarly journals are created when new audiences and communities of scholarly practices appear (p. 1) The earliest use of the phrase information policy" by governments actually referred to propaganda efforts during world war 1 (p. 2) Through information policy creates the conditions under which all other decision making, public discourse, and political activity take place, it was long considered law policy" of relative unimportance (p. 2) Marking the boundaries of the domain with information creation, processing, flows, access, and use" provides a synthetic and succinct heuristic that meets important evaluative criteria (p. 3) The five distinctions above result from a synthesis of the many conceptualizations of information production chains (p. 3) Each type of information listed above has its own use within information policy analysis and they each represent a different way of thinking. More than one of the six types may be helpful when analyzing a particular piece of information policy.
