Informed Consent
Information Production and Ideology
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2003
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-3903-8 (ISBN)
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-3903-8 (ISBN)
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In this text, Lisa Schiff analyzes the interplay bewteen ideology and information. Through research on how information about the homeless is generated, she offers evidence for "how service providers create forms and clients complete them, how surveys are administered and agencies compile counts.
How many Americans are homeless? Although taking a census may sound simple, ensuring an accurate count is the least of its problems. Census takers in all walks of life exercise great care in determining what information is to be collected, how it is to be recorded, and how the findings are ultimately to be presented. But who decides which evaluation frameworks and indicators are to be used? Do all concerned-census takers and respondents view those indicators in the same manner? Do institutional and social imperatives outweigh individual bias and perspective? And if so, is that really what we want? Informed Consent analyzes the interplay between ideology and information. Through extensive research on how information about the homeless is generated and interpreted, Lisa Schiff offers both hard evidence and a convincing argument for questioning "how service providers create forms and clients complete them, how advocates administer surveys and public agencies compile counts." At the same time, she explores the day-to-day implications of her findings by demonstrating how competing understandings affect prevailing ideologies, which in turn affect our attempts at social change.
How many Americans are homeless? Although taking a census may sound simple, ensuring an accurate count is the least of its problems. Census takers in all walks of life exercise great care in determining what information is to be collected, how it is to be recorded, and how the findings are ultimately to be presented. But who decides which evaluation frameworks and indicators are to be used? Do all concerned-census takers and respondents view those indicators in the same manner? Do institutional and social imperatives outweigh individual bias and perspective? And if so, is that really what we want? Informed Consent analyzes the interplay between ideology and information. Through extensive research on how information about the homeless is generated and interpreted, Lisa Schiff offers both hard evidence and a convincing argument for questioning "how service providers create forms and clients complete them, how advocates administer surveys and public agencies compile counts." At the same time, she explores the day-to-day implications of her findings by demonstrating how competing understandings affect prevailing ideologies, which in turn affect our attempts at social change.
Lisa Schiff is currently an Information Engineer at Interwoven, Inc. She has studied social aspects of information in many disparate areas, from information access to information system evaluation and design. She has also been involved in projects promoting the creation, sharing and use of information, especially in the realm of community education.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.10.2003 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 134 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 222 g |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8108-3903-2 / 0810839032 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8108-3903-8 / 9780810839038 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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