Man and document: from homo sapiens to homo documentator
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https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v4i2.1094Abstract
Reflections on the anthropological implications of the use by humans of documentary technologies. Various in vogue essays, that study the impact of the information technologies on the concept of human being, are analysed; and their thesis are put in relation with the theory of document-based information. An anthropological path is proposed, begining with the homo sapiens, passing through the homo videns and arriving to the homo digitalis. After considering the limitations of the last paradigm, the anthropology of the homo documentalis (documented person) —a citizen capable of creating and consuming culture and science and a domestic cosmopolite— is assumed and proposed. If such a documented man, his own documentalist, finds insuperable difficulties in retrieving Scire. 4 : 2 (jul.-dic. 1998) 11-22. information, he should be assisted by the homo documentator, a new profile of documentalist adapted to the information society, whose main characteristics are analysedDownloads
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