Reasoning about knowledge

Title from title screen.Title from website (viewed Jan. 20, 2006).Reasoning about knowledge--particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge--was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to …

Social consequences of Internet use :access, involvement, and interaction

Drawing on nationally representative telephone surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000, James Katz and Ronald Rice offer a rich and nuanced picture of Internet use in America. Using quantitative data, as well as case studies of Web sites, they explore the impact of the Internet on society from three perspectives: access to Internet technology (the digital divide), involvement with groups and commun…

Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction

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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

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Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data

Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data By Ronald E. Day The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10073.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262322775 Publication date: 2014 A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of i…

Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia

ABSTRACT Based on research carried out over the three decades, this book compares the post-war political economies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the context of their individual and collective impact on contemporary efforts at regional integration. The author highlights the different paths to reform taken by the three neighbours and the effect this has had on regional plans for economic deve…

Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence

Knowledge about environmental problems has expanded rapidly in recent decades, as have the number and variety of processes for making large-scale scientific assessments of those problems and their possible solutions. Yet too often scientific information has not been transformed into effective and appropriate policies to protect the global environment. In this book, scholars use a comparative an…

Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription

A historical-conceptual account of the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and innate powers of expression by which something becomes evident. In this book, Ronald Day offers a historical-conceptual account of how something becomes evident. Crossing philosophical ontology with documentary ontology, Day investigates the different genres, technologies, modes of inscription, and …

Universities, Stakeholders and Social Mission: Building Cooperation Through A…

Today's universities are confronted with questions about the increasing scale of corporatisation and commercialisation, as well as their decreasing activity in the field of the social mission, i.e., engagement in the real problems of ordinary people, local communities and society at large. As a remedy for this problem, this book proposes using action research as a means of shaping collaboration…

A Handbook of Food Crime

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