There is still time to book on the following workshop on Sept 2nd, at ISIC2014 (the Information Behaviour Conference) in Leeds:
*Information Behaviour on Social Media (1/2 day workshop), run by Dr Chris Khoo and Dr Theresa Anderson*
Social media applications have encroached into all areas of our lives, and are having a major impact on how we live, work, play, learn, socialise and vote! Libraries and information services are using social media to promote their resources and services, and incorporating social media functions in their online catalogues and database systems.
Social media in its various manifestations presents a golden opportunity and rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the information (in text, image and video format) is recorded and stored in publicly accessible repositories or on personal devices.
Fundamental questions that need to be answered include:
◾How does information behaviour on social media differ from other online and offline information behaviour?
◾Do social media applications promote particular kinds of information behaviour, and even engender new kinds of behaviour?
◾How does social media information behaviour interact with or complement other online and offline behaviour?
◾What research methods can be used to study social media information behaviour, and how should they be adapted to handle and exploit the characteristics of social media?
Information behaviour research has traditionally focused on:
◾Models of information behaviour, including the information search process and interactive information retrieval
◾Information seeking, searching, browsing and encountering
◾Task-based user evaluation
◾Concepts of information need, serendipity, relevance, etc.
◾Information behaviour in particular contexts and of particular communities
◾Everyday life information behaviour.
Do previous research findings on the above issues apply to social media use?
Social media encompass a wide range of applications including social networking, content sharing (e.g. YouTube), online journaling (e.g. blogging), social tagging, collaborative recommendation, discussion forums, collaborative authoring (e.g. Wikipedia), etc. Do these present opportunities for studying particular types of information behaviour in greater depth, and how they interact and complement each other?
The Workshop will seek to address the above questions through short paper presentations and a panel discussion.
The Workshop includes coffee and lunch within a registration fee of £50 - Please see our website for full details and how to apply:
http://isic2014.com/workshops/information-behaviour-on-social-media/
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