Gernot Wersig's research while affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin and other places
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Publications (5)
Information work is considered from the point of view of knowledge production, knowledge needs and the communication media. Developments in the diffusion and transmission of knowledge are briefly discussed, followed by a consideration of time-independent transmission media for general use. Information work is in a transitional stage between 'docume...
We discuss the functional analysis and design of a general information provision mechanism. Our basic assumptions are that information provision mechanisms are best considered as a part of a problem management system which includes user, mechanism and knowledge resource, that such mechanisms must necessarily be multi-functional, and that they will...
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... The tools for systematically doing the same on also the human search experience level, however, have been missing. An early approach to solve this was problem management system suggested by Belkin, Seeger and Wersig (1982) that broke down the process of problem treatment into separable entities that feed the whole search. However, it treated search process as a problem solving task. ...
Reference: Service design for information searching
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... Here, the mass media -and with it the general availability of the (color) television that soon became a ubiquity -played an important factor. For many, including Etzioni (1972), Becker (1981) and Vowe and Wersig (1983), the emergence of cable TV brought with it the possibility of bi-directional communication and allowed electronic town hall meetings to be held. However, due to the high costs for bi-directional switches and hubs, the cable networks only allowed for uni-directional broadcasting of TV programs 3 . ...
