I‘ll have a few more weeks up later in the week. This coming week provides an example of why I wanted some flexibility. While we will talk about Baeyer’s definition of information and its place in science and society this week, we are going to put off the idea of information more common to information sciences for a week. Why? Because the esteemed Dr. Axel Bruns is giving a presentation next week on “prosuming” that — while it comes at the wrong time of the semester — is germane to the class. Also, an online conference starts today that discusses the impact of the new “Real ID” legislation. Again, we are not talking about social issues as much until the second half of the course, but this is worth taking the time out now to discuss.
September 21: Information as a concept
Baeyer, chapters 1-18.
September 28: Special Week: REAL ID conference and Axel Bruns presentation
You are encouraged to attend a presentation by Axel Bruns: 6pm, CFA, DMS 235. We will begin class after his presentation, most likely at about 7:30 and discuss both issues raised in his talk and in the REAL ID conference.
Be sure to post your opinions and reactions to the items above.
October 6: Information as Thing
Bates, M. J. (1999). The invisible substrate of information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1043-1050.
Buckland, M. (1991). Information as thing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 351-360.
Kidd, A. (1994). The marks are on the knowledge worker. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: celebrating interdependence. Boston.
Next couple weeks
I‘ll have a few more weeks up later in the week. This coming week provides an example of why I wanted some flexibility. While we will talk about Baeyer’s definition of information and its place in science and society this week, we are going to put off the idea of information more common to information sciences for a week. Why? Because the esteemed Dr. Axel Bruns is giving a presentation next week on “prosuming” that — while it comes at the wrong time of the semester — is germane to the class. Also, an online conference starts today that discusses the impact of the new “Real ID” legislation. Again, we are not talking about social issues as much until the second half of the course, but this is worth taking the time out now to discuss.
September 21: Information as a concept
September 28: Special Week: REAL ID conference and Axel Bruns presentation
October 6: Information as Thing
UPDATE: fixed date.
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