Main point

IR a negotiation process

There is too much information/emphasis…just because we can collect we don’t have to

People are not computers (but wait till next week’s reading ;-)

These readings are difficult to understand!

Need more cross-disciplinary interaction---lots of different labels for same concepts

Hard to understand how people want to hide their need for info (advertise ignorance)

Questions

How does user-centered design apply to teaching?

Do the ideas of negotiation and other interpersonal info seeking apply in mass comm.?

What is balance between user articulation (human), query elicitation (system interface), and classification (system backend)?

What causes (which anomalies) paradigm shifts like user centeredness?

What is the overall mission of info seeking research?

Since user needs are so vague, how do we study them?

Could you study info seeking behavior patterns on use of life lines in who wants to be a millionaire? Shopping behavior?

More on info poverty (Wresch, W. (1996). Information rich, information poor (pp. 1-19). Disconnected: Haves and have-nots in the information age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.)

2. Reading discussions:

Moving from human information needs to placing value on information is the main theme of these readings.

Belkin, N. J. (1980). Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval. Amy Davis

Kwasnik, B. (1992). A descriptive study of the functional components of browsing. Margaret Deyoung

Marchionini, G. (1995). Information Seeking in Electronic Environments. pp 27-60. (Note: this item is not in the reading packet, and may instead be found on reserve in the SILS library. The book is located behind the reference desk.)

Harter, S. P. (1992). Psychological relevance and information science. (JASIST online) Schamber, L., Eisenberg, M. B., & Nilan, M. S. (1990). A re-examination of relevance: Toward a dynamic, situational definition. James Britton

Amento, B., Terveen, L., & Hill, W. (2000). Does ‘authority’ mean quality? Predicting expert quality ratings of web documents. Proceedings of ACM SIGIR (Athens, July 24-28). 296-303. ( ACM Digital

Library). Brandy Bourne

4. Readings for next meeting:

Reeves, B. & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and the new media like real people and places. NY: Cambridge University Press. (Preface ix-xiii, Chapter 1 p 3-15, and Chapter 23 p251-256.)

5. One-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?