INLS 500 Day 2 Notes

January 21, 2009

1. Preliminaries

blog issues

One minute papers

Assign: Citation Patterns (due Feb 11)

2. Finish slides from last week ( Shannon )

3. Group discussions:

Day:  conduits, information highways, cyberinfrastructure

Pierce: confluence of info theory (bits through a channel), linguistics (transformations, relativity of meaning and constructivism roots), cybernetics (feedback and homeostatis) drives technical advances.

Tannen: getting tired circa 2009?

Rogers: adoption curves

Reeves and Nass media equation; technology persuades??

4.   Notes on Shannon and Pierce

See Statistical Abstract of the USA http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/information_communications.html

See http://www.pewinternet.org/reports.asp  for more recent Internet usage data

6. Readings/Viewings  for Next week:

• Meho, L. & Yang, K. (2007). Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar. JASIST 58 (13): 2105-2125 (2007) UNC libraries
• View: Borgman, C. The role of libraries in E-science (video presentation) (http://blip.tv/file/1038783)
• Lawrence, S. (2001). Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact. Nature, 411(6837), 521. (Available via UNC libraries

7. One-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?