Peter Collin Publishing English Dictionary For Students

General theoretical introduction to digital information management Explores the application of critical theory, communications and media theory to understanding digital information Historical and critical perspectiveĪs computers have infiltrated virtually every facet of our lives, so has computer science influenced nearly every academic subject in science, engineering, medicine, social science, the arts and humanities. It is a comprehensive introduction to theoretical frameworks for understanding and studying digital information. Each chapter includes recommended further reading to guide the reader to further information.

It explores parallels between information management and media, communication and cultural studies. Digital Information Contexts is the first book aimed at information professionals to give a detailed outline of important perspectives on information and meaning, including post-structuralism and post-modernism. It outlines the origins of information management in nineteenth-century humanism, the adoption of scientific perspectives in the documentation and information science movements, and modern theoretical frameworks for understanding the social, cultural and political place of digital information. Also included are phonetic pronunciations for each word, quotations from newspapers to show how each word is used in a semiformal context, and collocations within examples to show related words.This book is an introduction to critical and theoretical perspectives on digital information. Teachers of English as a Foreign Language courses will find this dictionary a terrific resource. This unique approach to word definition eliminates the great flaw of traditional dictionaries, that the definitions are often as incomprehensible to students as the words being looked up. The definitions are clearly written using a simple English vocabulary of just 1,500 words.

It is comprehensive - 24,000 words defined and 35,000 examples - but the words have been carefully selected to cover the core vocabulary plus the words students will encounter when they take the SAT1 or any of the major ESL exams. This entirely new dictionary was conceived and constructed from scratch to serve the needs and reflect the capacities of upper-intermediate-level students of English.

Peter Collin Publishing English Dictionary For Students