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Lecture 2 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 --