Information: Objective or subjective/situational?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1448-1456

  Hjørland, Birger ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION UNDERSTANDING; OBSERVER-INDEPENDENT PHENOMENON; SHANNON'S INFORMATION THEORY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547559506     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20620     Document Type: Article

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