Interest in Information science

Information science(orinformation studies) is an interdisciplinaryfield primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, and dissemination of information. [ 1 ]Practitioners within the field study the application and usage of knowledge in organizations, along with the interaction between people, organizations and any existing information systems, with the aim of creating, replacing, improving, or understanding information systems. Information science is often (mistakenly) considered a branch of computer science. However, it is actually a broad, interdisciplinary field, incorporating not only aspects of computer science, but often diverse fields such as archival science, cognitive science, commerce, communications, law, library science, museology, management, mathematics, philosophy, public policy, and the social sciences. Information science should not be confused with information theoryor library science. Information theory is the study of a particular mathematical concept of information. Information Science as an academic discipline is often taught in combination with Library Science as Library and Information Science. Library science as such is a field related to dissemination of information through librariesmaking use of the principles of information science. Information Science per se deals with all the processes and techniques including generation, packaging, dissemination, refining, repackaging, Usage etc. through any modes. Foundations Scope and approach Information science focuses on understanding problemsfrom the perspective of the stakeholders involved and then applying information and other technologies as needed. In other words, it tackles systemic problems first rather than individual pieces of technologywithin that system. In this respect, one can see information science as a response to technological determinism, the belief that technology "develops by its own laws, that it realizes its own potential, limited only by the material resources available and the creativity of its developers. It must therefore be regarded as an autonomous system controlling and ultimately permeating all other subsystems of society." [ 2 ] Many universities have entire colleges, departments or schools devoted to the study of information science, while numerous information-science scholars work in disciplines such as communication, computer science, law, library science, and sociology. Several institutions have formed an I-School Caucus (see List of I-Schools), but numerous others besides these also have comprehensive information foci. Within information science, current issues as of 2013include: *. human–computer interaction *. groupware *.the semantic web *. value-sensitive design *. iterative designprocesses *.the ways people generate, use and find information