Christina's LIS Rant
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Comps readings this week
Finished:
Garvey, W. D. (1979). Communication, the essence of science: Facilitating information exchange among librarians, scientists, engineers, and students. New York: Pergamon Press.
Over all, seems like a digested version of his papers, which I've already read. There were some new things about how and when librarians can/should get in on the action...
Read chapters 1-6 of
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (2003). Theories of communication networks. New York: Oxford University Press.
I initially had Wasserman & Faust on my reading list, but my committee members thought this would be better - wow, they're right! This sort of handwaves at the actual SNA measures, but is all about the various social theories and how they are investigated using SNA metrics (ah-ha, a missing piece). I've read a few of the papers mentioned, but this really just puts everything in one spot. When I started the first chapter - I was like blah, blah, blah - world is flat, emergence, complexity, globalization, yadda, yadda... and then, all of a sudden, they drop the names of like 15 major theories and then tell you what hypotheses and how to test them. So reading speed has been uneven :) I might either in next week's post or as a separate post list some of the theories. The authors' main contribution is a multitheoretical, multilevel framework - something to do when your theory with dyads conflicts with your theory for the global network, for example.
Off to read chp7...
Garvey, W. D. (1979). Communication, the essence of science: Facilitating information exchange among librarians, scientists, engineers, and students. New York: Pergamon Press.
Over all, seems like a digested version of his papers, which I've already read. There were some new things about how and when librarians can/should get in on the action...
Read chapters 1-6 of
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (2003). Theories of communication networks. New York: Oxford University Press.
I initially had Wasserman & Faust on my reading list, but my committee members thought this would be better - wow, they're right! This sort of handwaves at the actual SNA measures, but is all about the various social theories and how they are investigated using SNA metrics (ah-ha, a missing piece). I've read a few of the papers mentioned, but this really just puts everything in one spot. When I started the first chapter - I was like blah, blah, blah - world is flat, emergence, complexity, globalization, yadda, yadda... and then, all of a sudden, they drop the names of like 15 major theories and then tell you what hypotheses and how to test them. So reading speed has been uneven :) I might either in next week's post or as a separate post list some of the theories. The authors' main contribution is a multitheoretical, multilevel framework - something to do when your theory with dyads conflicts with your theory for the global network, for example.
Off to read chp7...
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Comments:
Garvey (1979) is probably out of print. It still seems relevant insofar as I remember it. Worth reprinting?
maybe worth reprinting if someone did sort of a retrospective introduction to the front... also to talk about technological determinism and how that's not so cool anymore :)
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