%0 Journal Article
%T Information, communication and society
%A Wilson
%A T.D.
%J Svensk Biblioteksforskning
%D 2006
%I 
%X The aim of this paper is to explore the role of information science within the context of communication in society: consequently, ¡®information science¡¯ is here defined predominantly as a social science. Clearly, there are aspects of information, its organization and communication, that are explored outside a social science framework. The most obvious of these is information retrieval research, where the methods employed could not be labelled ¡®sociological¡¯ under any definition. [Of course, we might speculate as to whether information retrieval research might benefit from a sociological approach and, if so, what benefits might follow ¨C but that would be another paper.]
%K library and information science
%K open access
%K digital resources
%K reading
%U http://www.hb.se/bhs/svbf/arkiv/wilson.pdf