by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
A two-year anthropological study of student research habits shows that students are in dire need of help from librarians, but are loath to ask for it. Read more at Inside Higher Ed
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
A few years ago, Eli Pariser gave a talk about how algorithms and social media shape what we know. I focused on the dangers of the “filter bubble” — the personalized universe of information that makes it into our feed — and argued that news-filtering algorithms narrow...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Wiki |
Scholarly publishing and communication refers to the creation of new knowledge and its dissemination to relevant academic audiences. Public dissemination of knowledge has become cheaper, faster and easier in the digital age, but is not without its challenges....