by LIS101 | Sep 21, 2018 | Advocacy, Readings |
Author: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) The “digital divide” – a term that refers to the gaps in access to information and communication technology (ICT) – threatens the ICT “have-nots”, whether...
by LIS101 | Sep 19, 2018 | lecture notes, Lesson Plans, Readings |
This overview of the materials in this class discusses generally: Why we see things differently. Why we don’t like to be wrong. Why it is dangerous to question authority. Where we got the letter A. The morbidity of Puritan children’s books. How culture and...
by LIS101 | Jan 11, 2016 |
Module 5: Information Online Introduction Since the dawn of the information age, people have been concerned about information overload, which is the stress people feel when they are exposed to so much information that it becomes impossible to think about it clearly....
by LIS101 | Jan 18, 2016 |
Module 1: A Very Brief History of Information Introduction The complex information ecosystem in which we find ourselves–in which public and private sources battle for control of policy, in which marketers and publishers compete for our attention, in which...