Social epistemology in information studies

Why Social Epistemology Is Real Epistemology

[Information, health, transdisciplinarity and the construction of a social epistemology].

signos e práticas curativas, o sistema de informação mostra-se como fruto do modelo antigo, mas ainda hegemônico. Em tempos de novas e mais efetivas práticas de produção de saberes, e sobretudo em meio à atual configuração epistêmica, a construção do significado compartilhado entre os agentes envolvidos no processo informacional é condição sine qua non para o sucesso. Assim, um sistema que desc...

A Social Constructionist Epistemology

Systems - Oriented Social Epistemology *

How can social epistemology (SE) be characterized so that all of these topics fit under its umbrella? Why does each topic qualify as epistemology and in what respects is it social? This paper begins by proposing a tripartite division of SE. Under this classification scheme the first variety of SE is highly continuous with traditional epistemology, whereas the second and third varieties diverge ...

Defending Longino's Social Epistemology

Though critics of traditional epistemology agree that we need to account for the role that social factors play in inquiry, developing a viable social epistemology has proved to be difficult. According to Helen Longino, it is the processes that make inquiry possible that are social, for they require a number of people to sustain them. These processes facilitate inquiry, and ensure that the resul...