Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze and re-direct recent schematic and empirical scholarship on Habermas’ theory of the public sphere in library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach: This paper conducts a critical analysis of the relevant literature in light...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore an approach to epistemology which allows a portion of library and information science (LIS) to coherently explain its social and intellectual contributions, and to overcome some of the problems of epistemology that LIS encounters....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to flesh out a truncated line of analysis in library and information science (LIS) of language analyses of power in the field. Design/methodology/approach Literature-based conceptual analysis of the problems engendered by neoliberalism in LIS and the...

Purpose Due to contemporary threats to democracy, the topic is highly prominent in news and social discourse. The Library and Information Science (LIS) field writes about democracy frequently and it is a core concept underwriting many common library practices, but it lacks a working definition...

Purpose The broader analytical framing of systematically distorted communication (SDC) helps extract value out of the enormous amount of scholarship on fake news. Design/methodology/approach The massive literature on fake news has been the subject of handbook overviews, systematic literature...