TY - SER
AU - W. Boyd Rayward
CY - Aldershot, England
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
Introduction: European modernism and the information society: conceptual interdependence / W. Boyd Rayward
Understanding the information domain: the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster 
On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland 
A tale of two narratives: prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller
The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann 
Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet: European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem 
Towers and globes: architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard 
Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web: Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel 
Networking knowledge before the information society: the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. Jast / Alistair Black 
Documentation and utopia : Fabian anticipations of the information society / Alistair S. Duff 
Public science in Britain and the origins of documentation and information science, 1890-1950 / Dave Muddiman 
The march of the modern and the reconstitution of the world's knowledge apparatus: H.G. Wells, encyclopedism, and the world brain / W. Boyd Rayward 
The modern museum in the age of its mechanical reproducibility: Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna / Nader Vossoughian 
Gesellschaft und wirtschaft: an encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's pictorial statistics from 1930 / Sybilla Nikolow 
Visualizing social facts: Otto Neurath's isotype project / Frank Hartmann 
Paper parasite : F.M. Feldhaus and the historiography of technology / Markus Krajewski 
Roots of mediating information: aspects of the German information movement / Thomas Hapke
PB - Ashgate
PP - Aldershot, England
PY - 2008
SN - 9780754649281
EP - 358 pp.
TI - European Modernism and the Information Society
ER -