OpenDocProject:LIS590HF/2010/08/30

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Housekeeping

 * For the paper - we're looking for a balance of a contemporary problem properly contextualized with historical background...(50 / 50)
 * For the week we present, go through each paper -- provide an overall summary of what is happening (this should be extended) and "mobalize" some salient quotes.

Modernity to Postmodernity
This shift well represents LIS-- but there are numerous contexts (rise of capitalism, industrialization, science / technological innovations etc)

Anthony Gideon-- High modernity from post-modernity.

Dichotomies:

Modernism --- Postmodernism

Belief -- Disbelief

Rationality -- Irrationality

Universal truth -- Local Knowledge

Ulrich Beck -- The risk society-- 1990s to describe the manner in which modern society organises in response to risk VERY IMORTANT FOR RISK MANAGEMENT IN DIGITAL PRESERVATION [www.nextreformation.com/wp-admin/resources/risk-society.pdf overview ]

JURGEN HABERMAS-- The construction of the Public Sphere

Public Sphere
Kuhn --


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