Season’s Greetings from INFIDEOS, a YouTube channel of educational videos about Information Science. Information Science Macarena is a short (2-minute), light-hearted, holiday-themed celebration of some of our field’s colorful characters and their ideas. It was created with students in mind, but is a holiday gift to all enthusiasts of Information Science.
At my YouTube channel, INFIDEOS, I recently published a video series, Writing-Up Research as Thematic Narrative. It contains 14 short episodes on authoring qualitative or ethnographic research. The series addresses the complexity of social scientific narratives, which are multi-perspective and multivocal. While all the examples of writing in the collection are drawn from Information Science, these fundamental techniques easily transfer to other disciplines.
In this episode of InfoFire, our guest Ajit Balakrishnan—founder, chairman, and CEO of Rediff.com and an internet industry pioneer in India—chats about technological advancements and social change from a historical perspective before going on to share his enthusiasm about metaverse and optimism about the democratizing impact of technology.
Attention doctoral students of Information Science: There’s a new video series at INFIDEOS, and it is just for you.
Software systems are not isolated but socio-technical systems (STS) that are components of broader systems with a human, social or organizational purpose. Socio-technical systems are large-scale systems that include but are not limited to software and hardware but also people, processes, and organizational policies.
Reijo Savolainen’s “Everyday Life Information Seeking: Approaching Information Seeking in the Context of Way of Life” was published in the journal Library and Information Science Research in 1995. This landmark paper introduced a model of information behavior and opened-up a now-flourishing research frontier dedicated to non-work contexts.
