Information work is a service profession. It is therefore important for information worker to understand society and its dynamics. This understanding enhance their ability to organize, retrieve and disseminate information to user populations in different information environments.Society – group of people who live in a particular geographical area, are subject to a common system of political authority, are subject to a common system of political authority, and are aware of having a distinct identity from other groups around them (Giddens 1997).Community...
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Theories of knowledge
Theories of knowledgeWhat is knowledge?How is knowledge acquired?What do people know?How do we know what we know?Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge, and whether knowledge is possible. Among its central concerns has been the challenge posed by skepticism and the relationships between truth, belief, and justification.Specific theories of knowledge acquisitionEmpiricism is one of several competing views about how we know "things", part of the branch of philosophy called epistemology, or "the Theory of Knowledge". Empiricism...
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Types of Knowledge
Knowledge is the expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education. or it is the information; awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation (Oxford English Dictionary).In order for knowledge to exist there must be data and information.Information is a message received and understood.Data: means groups of information that represent the qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables.Data is the lowest level of abstraction, information is the next level, and finally, knowledge...