Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium

By A. Borgmann. 2000

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The automatic production of space (2002, methodology): “In the conclusion, we will try to sum up and extend our narrative by considering software as a new form of gathering, what we might call 'semi-artificial life' (Borgmann 2000).”
From Use to Effective Use: A Representation Theory Perspective (2013, background): “1, 2 Categories of information systems: 1 McAfee 2006, 2 Borgmann 1999.”
Flourishing on facebook: virtue friendship & new social media (2012, background): “…philosophers began reflecting upon the ethical significance of the Internet more than a decade ago, the first wave of insights from thinkers such as Borgmann (1999) and Dreyfus (2001) was met by the broader community of philosophers in the field of applied ethics with a degree of engagement that…”
Interpersonal Communication: Theoretical Perspectives, Future Prospects (2005, unknown): “The concern is that as people ’ s experience of reality becomes progressively more symbolically mediated, they will lose contact with the world that is increasingly represented to them in digital form (Borgmann, 1999).”
Conceptual approaches for defining data, information, and knowledge (2007, background): “On the contrary, especially as Borgmann (1999) argues, there are other forms of information (natural, cultural) that are not fully reducible to data as can be transmitted, processed, and/or produced by computers and affiliated technologies.”