Education Frontiers Hotel Workers Adapt to a Changing Industry January 30, 2022April 24, 2022 Amy Rosellini COVID-19, hospitality industry, hotel workers, misinformation Hotel Workers Adapt to a Changing Industry Amy Rosellini and Millicent Njeri As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 instigates a new wave of pandemic travel restrictions and global lockdowns, hospitality Read more Read more
Editorial In AI We Trust, But Should We? January 28, 2022April 24, 2022 Chirag Shah Alexa, conversational agent, information access, Spotify, streaming, trust, user agency In AI We Trust, But Should We?Chirag Shah, University of WashingtonWhen my older daughter was five, she once told me, “Dad, Alexa must be a scientist because she Read more Read more
Education Opinion Arbiters of Truth January 25, 2022April 24, 2022 Jeff Allen disinformation, feedback, information sharing, intent, lies, malinformation, misinformation, social noise, truth Arbiters of Truth Jeff Allen and Tara Zimmerman Within the last five years, disinformation and misinformation have become part of our common vernacular. Unfortunately, these terms are often misunderstood, misused, Read more Read more
Translation Does Double-blind Peer Review Reduce Bias? January 20, 2022April 24, 2022 Mengyi Sun Bias, double-blind, peer review, single-blind Does Double-blind Peer Review Reduce Bias?Mengyi SunIn June 1936, John Tate, then the editor of Physical Review, received a manuscript with the astonishing claim that gravitational waves Read more Read more
Translation The Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Novelty and Collaboration January 19, 2022April 24, 2022 Yi Bu COVID-19, international collaboration, scientific novelty The Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Novelty and Collaboration Meijun Liu, Yi Bu, and Ying Ding Newton developed the basis for his groundbreaking work during the Great Plague, having far-reaching Read more Read more
Education Multimedia The History of Information Science in 30 Seconds? January 19, 2022March 16, 2022 Jenna Hartel history, information science, Library and Information Science, metadiscipline The History of Information Science in 30 Seconds?Jenna HartelHi again! I’m back to share a few more videos about Information Science, and will do so on a weekly Read more Read more
Education Frontiers Cognitive Authority: Are You Attending to this Double-Edged Sword? January 12, 2022April 24, 2022 Nicole Bank Authority, cognitive authority, Information Source Cognitive Authority: Are You Attending to this Double-Edged Sword? Malak Khader and Nicole Bank An older gentleman was already at the pharmacy when I arrived to get my COVID vaccine Read more Read more
Education Multimedia Introducing INFideos: Information Science Videos on YouTube January 10, 2022April 24, 2022 Jenna Hartel educational YouTube, INFideos, Library and Information Science, LIS Introducing INFideos: Information Science Videos on Youtube Jenna Hartel Editor’s Note: Dr. Jenna Hartel, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, has joined Read more Read more
Translation Unifying Telescope and Microscope: A Multi-lens Framework with Open Data for Modeling Emerging Events January 1, 2022March 16, 2022 Yunhe Feng data framework, data modeling, open data, open source data Unifying Telescope and Microscope: A Multi-lens Framework with Open Data for Modeling Emerging Events Yunhe Feng and Chirag Shah The famous folk tale of The Blind Men and the Elephant Read more Read more