Critical Information Studies: A Bibliographic Manifesto

Really useful article with an interesting bibliography, identifying a new & emerging ‘transfield’ named Critical Information Studies by Siva Vaidhyanathan that cuts across:

• the abilities and liberties to use, revise, criticize, and manipulate cultural texts, images, ideas, and information;

• the rights and abilities of users (or consumers or citizens) to alter the means and techniques through which cultural texts and information are rendered, displayed, and distributed;

• the relationship among information control, property rights, technologies, and social norms; and

• the cultural, political, social, and economic ramifications of global flows of culture and information.