LIS 869 belongs to the Information
Policy area of
specialization in the doctoral
program in library and information science in the Faculty of Information and
Media Studies.
Calendar
description:
869 Critical Analysis of Public Information Policy
An introduction to the application of public policy analysis to information policy, from
a critical and public interest perspective. Methods and principles of critical public policy analysis are identified and applied to case studies of information policies. The emphasis is on the relationship between the public interest and public policies for the production, distribution, and consumption of information resources.
Supplementary description:
LIS 869 begins from the assumption that the power to shape policy
is not distributed equally over all parties involved in the formulation of information
policy, whether as actors or as affected groups. Its emphasis on critical policy analysis
therefore presents an alternative to pluralist and instrumentalist approaches such as
public choice theory. It builds upon the political economy of information, a theoretical
framework for analyzing inequalities in power relations.
