INST 352 Lecture 13: INST352 Lecture 13: History of the Research Genre
10 Feb 2019
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Inst352 lecture 13: history of the research genre. Research on information-related human practices dates back at least one hundred years, beginning perhaps in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Yet we could also point to a much earlier, 1849 report to the british parliament (see wellard, 1935) as representing an initial theme of ib research: documenting the effects of libraries and reading on a particular audience. In the case of the parliamentary report, the population in question was the english working class. Yet, while lacking the consistency and rigor that we would today require of a scholarly study, it is at least an early example of an attempt to describe the effects of reading. In fact, its concern with effects presages an important development in ib research that we discuss in chapter 5: the importance of the outcomes of information. Most scholars supply later dates for the start of the ib genre.
