Translation - Information Matters

April 21, 2023 Yazdan Mansourian

Five functions of information sharing in serious leisure: Releasing the power of information among passionate people

Why do we feel compelled to share information with others? With serious leisure—the pursuit of hobbies, voluntary activities or amateurism that requires effort, dedication, commitment, specific skills or knowledge—the motivations behind information sharing are complex. This article explores five themes to help us gain a deeper understanding of the role of information sharing in the context of serious leisure.

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April 20, 2023 Karen Wickett

Critical Data Modeling: Tools to Trace Oppression in Information Systems

Critical data modeling uses tools from data modeling and systems analysis to analyze information systems, connecting social critiques to the structure of digital information systems and data objects.

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April 17, 2023 Kalervo Järvelin

Information Science Breaking up?

Many would agree that the institutional library/information service R&D, information seeking, information retrieval, and biblio/infor/scientometrics form the landscape of Library and Information Science (LIS). These subareas are also brought forward in introductions to, and analyses of LIS (e.g., curricula, lectures, textbooks). Still, scholars contributing to different subareas may increasingly turn their attention toward the territory outside LIS – and be integrated there – or remain as visitors to LIS, being based outside. Are there indications toward that in LIS research? We decided to analyze the trends.

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April 10, 2023 Boris Menin

Maximizing Accuracy in Modeling Physical Phenomena through the Power of Information Theory

Information theory research has developed a method for estimating the limit of measurement accuracy at the model-building stage, which enables the calculation of precise values for the threshold difference between the model and the real phenomenon.

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April 5, 2023 Kate McDowell

Storytelling Dynamics and Misinformation: the Bad S-DIKW Framework

How do we know if a story is accurate or inaccurate, rational or exaggerated, correct or misleading, especially when an untrue story may be more gripping than the truth? Telling true stories, or truthful storytelling, requires a set of abilities for transforming data or information into story form, which can be related to various levels of the DIKW hierarchy.

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March 22, 2023 Huichuan Xia

Two Ethical Dilemmas in Conducting Human Subjects Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)

The study identifies two additional ethical dilemmas in conducting human subjects research (i.e., research with crowd workers) on MTurk: Dehumanization vs. Respect for persons; Monetary incentives and reputational risks vs. Beneficence.

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March 21, 2023 Toluwase Victor Asubiaro

(Under)Representation of Research Journals from Africa in Web of Science, and Scopus

Despite the global authoritativeness of Web of Science and Scopus, there are concerns that both platforms are not truly “global” because they are systematically and structurally biased against research produced in non-Western countries, non-English language journals, and research from the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

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March 15, 2023 Brady Lund

ChatGPT and AI-Written Research Papers: Ethical Considerations for Scholarly Publishing

Our study reveals that the potential for bias within AI-driven language models, such as GPT-3, poses a significant threat to the integrity of science. These models are trained on vast amounts of data, primarily from the internet, which can lead to a bias in the data. For example, if the data source is biased or incomplete, this bias will be reflected in the model’s output.

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March 15, 2023 Dr. Minaxi A. P.

An Approachable Framework of the Extended Marketing Mix towards Public Libraries

Today’s public libraries in India reach out to most areas, but they struggle to reach a growing population. We need to bridge this gap, and the extended marketing mix framework may be a tool to decrease the distance between people and the public library.