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For Every Document, a Person: A Co-Created View of Documents
Proceedings from the Document Academy, v 2(1)
04 Jan 2016
Abstract
The concept of document is common and fundamental to numerous information-related disciplines. Perhaps because of this, many definitions of document have been proposed. A conceptual analysis reveals that all these definitions, though they vary in important ways, have a common feature that has not yet been stated explicitly: Humans are vital to documents. That is, a human being is inextricable from the very notion of document. This leads to a further conceptualization of documents as psycho-physical or socio-physical entities that are co-created. Consequently, all documents must be viewed as idiosyncratic and context-bound. Further ramifications for information research, ethics and practice are discussed. Finally, reconsideration of this conceptualization in light of the possible approach of the technological singularity is provoked.
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- Title
- For Every Document, a Person: A Co-Created View of Documents
- Creators
- Tim Gorichanaz - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings from the Document Academy, v 2(1)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Other Identifier
- 991019296793404721