Biography
Julian Warner is a graduate of the universities of Newcastle, Oxford, and Sheffield. He has been a faculty member in information science at the Queen's University of Belfast since 1984. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Library and Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
His research interests are linked to economics by a current project developing an information view of history, which includes understandings of information technology, assimilates a previous, and continuing, research theme, semiotics, writing, and computing, and draws on historical studies of copyright. Other research interests include;
Information Retrieval, Diffusion Studies, and Research evaluation represent linked interests.
Labour in Information Systems.
Information Sources.
Doctoral supervision is available in all these areas.
Publications
- Human Information Retrieval. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, To appear November 2009.
- Organs of the human brain, created by the human hand? The social epistemology of information technology. (DOC 175 KB)
- A labor theoretic approach to information retrieval. (DOC 156 KB)
- Analogies between linguistics and information theory.
- Description and search labor for information retrieval. (DOC 103 KB)
- Selection power and selection labor for information retrieval. (DOC 179 KB)
- Linguistics and information theory: analytic advantages.
- Labor in information systems.
- Humanizing Information Technology.
- Information, Knowledge, Text
- A critical review of the application of citation studies to the Research Assessment Exercises.
- The public reception of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996.
- From Writing to Computers. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
- Writing and literary work in copyright: a binational and historical analysis.
Working Papers
- Human Information Retrieval. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, To appear November 2009.
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