Information Ecology

LANGUAGE OF ECOLOGY

Information ecology draws on the language of ecology - Habitat , Species , Evolution , Ecosystem , Niche , Growth , Equilibrium , etc - to describe and analyze Information Systems from a perspective that considers the distribution and abundance of Organisms , their relationships with each other, and how they influence and are influenced by their Environment . The virtual lack of Boundaries between information systems and the impact of information technology on economic, social and environmental activities frequently calls on an Information Ecologist to consider local information ecosystems in the context of larger systems, and of the evolution of global information ecosystems. See also List Of Ecology Topics .Robert Hammond

NETWORKED INFORMATION ECONOMY

In his groundbreaking new book, ''' provides an ecellent analytic framework for the emergence of the Networked Information Economy that draws deeply on the language and perspectives of information ecology together with insightful and strategic observations and analyses of examples of high-visibility examples of successful Peer Production processes, citing Wikipedia as a prime example.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Information ecology was used as book title by Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak with a focus on the organization dimensions of information ecology. There is also an academic research project called ''Information ecology'', which is concerned with distributed information systems and online communities [http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/Infoeco/ .sara coorcorin

LAW

Law schools represent another area where the phrase is gaining increasing acceptance, e.g.
NYU Law School Conference Towards a Free Information Ecology and a lecture series on Information ecology at Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. [http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/events.html#lecture

LIBRARY SCIENCE

The field of Library Science has seen significant adoption of the term and librarians have been described by Bonnie Nardi as a "keystone species in information ecology", e.g. [http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/sfsla/bulletin/sepoct00/info_ecology.html and references to information ecology range as far afield as the Collaborative Digital Reference Service of the Library of Congress [http://www.loc.gov/rr/digiref/source/CDRS-KB-CNI.PPT], to children's library database administrator in Russia.

BIOLOGY

There has also been increasing use of "information ecology" as a concept among ecologists involved in digital mapping of botanical resources, including research by Zhang Xinshi at the Institute of Botany of the China Academy of Science; also see a presentation to the Information Ecology SIG at Yale University's Forestry School {Link without Title} .

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