The cognitive viewpoint in information science
Journal of Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue on the history of documentation and information science: part II
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue on the history of documentation and information science: part II
The landscape of information science: the American society for Information Science at 62
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science: part 1: the journal, its society, and the future of print
The invisible substrate of information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of The American Society for Information Science: part 2: paradigms, models and methods of information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of The American Society for Information Science: part 2: paradigms, models and methods of information science
Information and Information Systems
Information and Information Systems
Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science
Journal of Information Science
On the history of evaluation in IR
Journal of Information Science
The sociological turn in information science
Journal of Information Science
Information Science in Transition
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Philosophy and information studies
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
What kind of science can information science be?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
'So wide and varied': The origins and character of British information science
Journal of Information Science
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The French conception of information science is often contrasted with the Anglophone one, which is perceived as different and rooted mainly in Shannon's mathematical theory of communication. While there is such a thing as a French conception of information science, this conception is not totally divorced from the Anglophone one. Unbeknownst to researchers from the two geographical and cultural regions, they share similar conceptions of the field and invoke similar theoretical foundations, in particular the socio-constructivist theory. There is also a convergence of viewpoints on the dual nature of information science, i.e., the fact that it is torn between two competing paradigms—objectivist and subjectivist. Technology is another area where a convergence of viewpoints is noticeable: Scholars from both geographic and cultural zones display the same suspicion toward the role of technology and of computer science. It would therefore be misleading to uphold the view that Anglophone information science is essentially objectivist and technicist while the French conception is essentially social and rooted in the humanities. This paper highlights converging analyses from authors based in both linguistic and geographical regions with the aim to foster a better understanding of the challenges that information science is facing worldwide and to help trace a path to how the global information science community can try to meet them. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.