Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
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“It Feels Like Engaging With a Friend”: Using Interpersonal Communication Strategies to Encourage Science Conversations With Lay Audiences on Social Media
No full textSocial media offer the potential to facilitate two-way conversations needed for effective science communication; however, research communicators often struggle to reach lay audiences on these media. In this study, the Twitter and Instagram activity of four individual scientists in North America and Europe, acting as recognized science communicators, was compared with the activity of three marine-focused non-governmental organizations (NGOs), particularly paying attention to the strategies that encourage audience engagement in two-way conversations. The results show that a combination of interpersonal communication strategies can have an important effect on the level of lay user engagement in two-way conversations over time
The “Customer” is Not Always Right: Third-Party Sexual Harassment in Libraries
No full textThird party sexual harassment is often experienced by frontline library workers and is perpetuated by the very patrons they endeavour to support. This paper reports on the results of an environmental scan designed to delineate the interdisciplinary scope of third-party sexual harassment, to describe methods and methodologies used to understand this issue from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and to inform future research in Library and Information Studies on this understudied, but critically important topic
Do Cultural Differences Impact on Intellectual Property Protection in the United States and China?
No full textIn a knowledge economy, intellectual property is highly related to core competency of an organization. Without proper protection, the competitive advantage is vulnerable to imitation and counterfeiting. Intellectual property protection can be seen as information and knowledge activities that are taken to prevent trademark, patent, copyright, and trade secret infringement. Between the United States and China, there is an intense and enduring controversy on intellectual property protection. Many previous relevant studies on this issue adopted a legal and governance approach, rarely focusing on the effect of cultural differences on these information and knowledge practices. This paper reports the theoretical exploration portion of an on-going empirical research on the cultural influences that impact intellectual property protection in the two countries, aiming to draw some implications for the field of knowledge management
Mutable Mobiles: Negotiating Tensions in Everyday Information Work in Paid and Unpaid Dementia Care
No full textThis paper details a contemporary, Canadian-centric study that focused on the information work that permeates the care work of families who are caring for a community-dwelling older adult who is living with dementia. Guided by Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography method of inquiry, thirteen family caregivers of community-dwelling older adults living with dementia were interviewed about their everyday information work. To more fully understand the different influences on family caregivers’ experiences of their information work, a second set of interviews was conducted with five paid dementia care staff to understand how, when, and why they provide families with information. This paper’s findings make visible the array of carerelated information work that happens in and around the home and calls into question the static boundaries that paid care providers place around information
The Analytical Potential of Cultural Meanings: Insights from the Analysis of Evaluation Practices in a Digital News Archive
No full textBest Student Paper / Prix du meilleur article par un étudiantBy drawing on insights from a doctoral project, this paper makes a case for examining the cultural meanings of information practices. The analytical value of this approach is elucidated through examples from an analysis of the digital curation practices at a digital broadcasting archive. The paper concludes by suggesting what role this approach, and information practice research more broadly, could play in the critical scholarship on data curation and data science. En s\u27appuyant sur les idées d\u27un projet de doctorat, cet article plaide pour l\u27examen des significations culturelles des pratiques de l\u27information. La valeur analytique de cette approche est illustrée par des exemples tirés d\u27une analyse des pratiques de conservation numérique dans des archives de radiodiffusion numérique. L\u27article conclut en suggérant le rôle que cette approche, et la recherche sur la pratique de l\u27information, pourrait jouer dans la recherche critique sur la conservation des données et la science des données
News Verification Suite: Towards System Design to Supplement Reporters’ and Editors’ Judgements
No full textThis paper offers a conceptual basis and describes elements for a multi-layered system to provide information users (newsreaders) with credible information and improve the work processes of the online news (content) producers. I overview criteria of excellence (what editors consider newsworthy) and how reporters (and traditional newsroom professionals used to) verify information to provide high quality of news. I compare the “traditional model of journalism” to the current journalistic practices of “news sharing a.s.a.p.” and identify certain processes that are currently either missing or could be complemented with automatic verification functions, capitalizing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data-Mining (DM)
Different Strokes for Different Folks: An Exploratory Study of Appraisal Performed by Recordkeeping Experts and non-Experts in the Government of Canada
No full textThis research examines the appraisal practices of recordkeeping experts and non-experts in the Government of Canada. The study uses interviews, cognitive inquiries, and document analysis to investigate the strategies and criteria each group uses to appraise records with a focus on the similarities and differences. Cette recherche examine les pratiques d\u27évaluation archivistique des experts et des non-experts au gouvernement du Canada. L\u27étude utilise des entrevues semi-structurées, des enquêtes cognitives et l’analyse de documents pour étudier les stratégies et les critères que chaque groupe utilise pour évaluer les documents d’archives en mettant l\u27accent sur les similitudes et les différences
In - text citation function s of self - citations: Implications for research evaluation practice
No full textSelf-citations have long been noted as a problem in citation analysis and are often excluded from the analyses based on the notion that self-citations may be included for egoistic or self-serving reasons. The present study, however, found that self-citations are less likely to function as nonessential citations than foreign citations, suggesting that self-citations should not be discounted in citation analysis, and should in fact be given more weight than foreign citations in weighted citation analysis. This study fills a gap in research on self-citations by examining the function of individual self-citation occurrences inciting articles as compared to foreign citations
Bridging the Gap: The Concept of Information in the Work of Marcia J. Bates and Birger Hjørland
No full textThis paper presents an analysis of the debate over the concept of information between Marcia J. Bates and Birger Hjørland. To this end, the paper provides an overview of the Bates-Hjørland debate and places it in a historical context. It then outlines a research perspective that does not resolve the debate but instead, pragmatically, circumvents it. Cet article présente une analyse conceptuelle du débat entre Marcia J. Bates et Birger Hjørlandsur le concept d\u27information. À cette fin, l\u27article présente un résumé du débat de Bates-Hjørlandet le positionne ensuite dans une perspective historique. Enfin, il décrit une perspective derecherche qui ne résout pas le débat, mais, de façon pragmatique, le contourne
Academic Libraries and Disabled Students: An Accessible Story?
No full textWith a growing disabled population, theaccessibility of higher education institutions is agrowing areaof attention in Canada. This paperexamines how academic libraries in Canada areresponding to create accessible environments,and how students are experiencing theseservices and spaces in practice. This examinationwill help to build a picture of how notions ofdisability and accessibility are constructed inacademic libraries in Ontario, and how theseunderstandings may affect disabled students inpractice