Tuesday, 23 May
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01. What is information behavior?
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Welcome to INLS500. This is a course about the ways that people interact with information.
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02. Trends in human information interaction research
Monday, 29 August 2016
Assigned reading
- Granfield, M. (2016). A design by any other name would be so delightful. ACM Interactions Blog. \urlhttps://interactions.acm.org/blog/view/a-design-by-any-other-name-would-be-so-delightful. Retrieved from https://interactions.acm.org/blog/view/a-design-by-any-other-name-would-be-so-delightful
- Le Dantec, C. A. (2016). Design through collective action / collective action through design. Interactions, 24(1), 24–30. http://doi.org/10.1145/3018005
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03. Theoretical perspectives and basic concepts
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Assigned reading
This session is an overview of the place of theory in information science, as well as a conceptual overview of the field.
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Labor day
Monday, 5 September 2016
Have a good weekend.
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04. Affective approaches to information behavior research
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Assigned reading
Today we consider affective, or emotion-based, approaches to information behavior research.
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05. Cognitive approaches to information behavior research
Monday, 12 September 2016
Assigned reading
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06. Experiencing an information need
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Assigned reading
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07. Expressing information needs
Monday, 19 September 2016
Assigned reading
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08. Studying/analyzing information needs
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Assigned reading
Today we will have a broad-based discussion about the foci of information needs research and discuss more specifically how it is conducted. This includes considering what the target outcomes of the research are. We will also discuss the underlying motivations of research in this area more specifically than in previous sessions.
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09. Information source horizons
Monday, 26 September 2016
Assigned reading
We'll talk about source selection today and some of the ways that people move through selecting sources.
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10. Incidental information acquisition: Browsing and serendipity
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Assigned reading
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11. Interactive information retrieval as part of the information seeking process
Monday, 3 October 2016
Assigned reading
Today we welcome Anita Crescenzi, my fellow PhD student, instructor of INLS 500, and expert in interactive information retrieval. She will be covering, no surprises, interactive information retrieval (IIR). We're very lucky to have her with us.
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12. Assessment of information quality/value
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Assigned reading
These two studies are examining very similar behaviors, so we'll focus our attention on the differences between them. Pay attention to the research questions asked, who is included in the study sample, what data were collected, and what conclusions were drawn. You may want to refer to the rapid reading guide in taking your notes, as these are the features that we will use to compare.
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13. Relevance judgments
Monday, 10 October 2016
Assigned reading
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14. Ways of using information
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Assigned reading
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15. Re-using and re-finding information
Monday, 17 October 2016
Assigned reading
Prof. Amelia Gibson will join us as guest lecturer today.
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16. Work day
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
We will not hold class today in the traditional sense of gathering in a room together and talking about stuff. Instead, you will have today to work on your upcoming system/service proposal assignment.
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17. Situation and context: social paradigms of information behavior
Monday, 24 October 2016
Assigned reading
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18. Information poverty, small worlds, and community contexts
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Assigned reading
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19. Domain, disciplinary, and organizational context
Monday, 31 October 2016
Assigned reading
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20. Everyday life information seeking
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
- Description of system/service DUE (intermediate deliverable for System/Service proposal)
- Topic selection DUE (intermediate deliverable for Analysis of scholarly communication)
Assigned reading
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21. Human intermediaries and imposed queries
Monday, 7 November 2016
Assigned reading
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Class canceled
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
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22. Social intermediaton (apomediation)
Monday, 14 November 2016
Assigned reading
Please read both of the Eysenbach articles above and then choose one of the other articles by Chen, Costello, or Vasilescu.
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23. Information retrieval systems as intermediaries
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
- Search parameters (in class) DUE (intermediate deliverable for Analysis of scholarly communication)
- Preliminary bibliography (in class) DUE (intermediate deliverable for Analysis of scholarly communication)
Assigned reading
Today we will be joined by Anita Crescenzi, who will talk to us about Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) systems as intermediaries between people and information.
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24. Ethics of online information behavior research
Monday, 21 November 2016
Assigned reading
There are no new assigned readings for today. We will be revisiting several of the articles from last time through the lens of research and information ethics.
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Thanksgiving break
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Have a good weekend.
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25. Scholarly work and the role of scholarly communication
Monday, 28 November 2016
Assigned reading
Skim or read both of these articles AFTER class today. We will have an open discussion about what the role of scholarly communication is in the academy and society. We will draw on our experience from this semester assembling a body of literature to support further research or action.
I would also like you to watch this TED Talk by Clay Shirky on the origins of open source (which also discusses the origins of scholarly communication). The theme of the talk is on open source government, but the content is entirely relevant to our current topic.
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26. Metrics of scholarly productivity
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Assigned reading
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27. Scholarly publishing as an industry
Monday, 5 December 2016
Assigned reading
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28. The future of information
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Assigned reading
In addition to the readings, this Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic is assigned: Minority Report - SMBC.
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Exam day
Friday, 16 December 2016
- Organizing elements DUE (final deliverable for Analysis of scholarly communication)
- Bibliographic analysis of articles DUE (final deliverable for Analysis of scholarly communication)
- Analysis of scholarly context DUE (final deliverable for Analysis of scholarly communication)
- Final bibliography DUE (final deliverable for Analysis of scholarly communication)
- Self-evaluation DUE (final deliverable for )