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Marr, Elizabeth Anne. "The work of journalism : on-line resources for supporting collaborative information use." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297697.
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Mazanderani, Fadhila. "Information as care : reconnecting internet use, HIV and health." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e9959b49-ca0c-48ba-9916-03a32d1455c4.
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Internet technologies are increasingly advocated as a means for transforming health care and improving people’s health. In the field of e-health questions on the health implications of internet use are typically approached through attempts at measuring the effect of internet use on health outcomes. In this, information is usually conceptualised as a form of knowledge/power and online information practices are enrolled in discourses on patient empowerment. Taking the different meanings ascribed to information in these approaches as my point of departure, in this thesis I rethink the implications of internet use on health through an empirical exploration of alternative conceptualisations of the relationship between information and health in the context of contemporary HIV treatment and care. I do this through two analytical moves. First, drawing on the concept of performativity, a concern with what effect internet use has on health is turned into one of how internet use enacts health. Second, rather than treating information as knowledge/power, through an analysis of how a specific group of women ‘living with HIV’ in the UK use the internet, I reconfigure the connections between internet use and health through a conceptualisation of information as care. Drawing on a range of empirical materials – including forty-seven in-depth interviews with patients and internet content providers, non-participant observations, document and website analysis – three areas of health-related internet use are analysed in detail: the seeking out of health-related and specifically biomedical information; the seeking out and sharing of experiential knowledge and narratives about living with HIV; meeting prospective partners and dating. However, rather than studying these areas of internet use in order to interrogate what they can tell us about the internet, I analyse them as part of the ethical regime of ‘living with HIV’, in which the virus, previously thought of as ‘terminal’, becomes, through info and bio technologies, normalised as ‘chronic’. From this perspective, enacting health not only entails working on and with one’s body, but also always invokes its distribution across bodies, to other areas and relations, including internet technologies and the networks of relations established via these technologies.
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Yarosh, Jerrod Henry. "A Study of Information Technology: Who Uses the Internet for Access to Health Information." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1253899325.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed April 1, 2010). Advisor: Susan Roxburgh. Keywords: College Students; Technology; Internet Access; Internet Use; Health; Health Information. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77)
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Wallace, Richard. "ETSU Medical Residents' Clinical Information Behaviors, Skills, Training, and Resource Use." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2076.
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Information is a powerful tool for enabling physicians to provide quality healthcare for their patients. Information use in the clinic is a skill that must be learned. If medical residency programs fail to impart this skill, then patients will suffer.
The residents of the ETSU Quillen College of Medicine were surveyed as to their use of clinical information. Of the 217 residents of the 2005-2006 class who were surveyed, 105 returned the survey for a return rate of 48%. The clinical faculty was also surveyed in order to measure the responses of the residents against that of their instructors.
ETSU residents frequently had a new information need in the clinic. The majority of the time they did not seek an answer, but when they did they were often successful in finding an answer. Therapy information was the most frequently sought after type of information. Most residents used the Quillen College of Medicine Library, but not at a desirable rate. Residents stated that information obtained from the library was helpful in caring for their patients. The most frequent source of information used by residents was electronic resources and the greatest barrier to the use of information was time. The majority of residents were PDA users, with Palm devices being the primary platform. The residents rated their PDA skills and evidence-based medicine skills as above average. Few were LoansomeDoc users. The majority of residents received information training from clinical faculty and from librarians and rated it highly. Residents indicated a desire for more training and the majority indicated that they would like a clinical medical librarian for their program. They rated the library service of the Quillen College of Medicine and the area teaching hospitals highly. Residents used Google and the Web frequently. PubMed was rated as a valuable resource. Online journals and the UpToDate database were important electronic resources for the residents.
ETSU residents have many excellent resources and training opportunities in place. However, for ETSU residents to go out into community practice as true "Infomasters" an upgrading of their information training should be undertaken.
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Wilson, Sarah 1965. "Should children conceived through the use of donor insemination have access to biographical information concerning the donor?" Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23441.
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In this paper I focus on the arguments made by some feminist writers against the disclosure of biographical information concerning the donor to children conceived through the use of donor insemination. In particular I concentrate on the effects of disclosure in terms of its personal effects on women of certain groups in less conventional family relationships, and on its implications with respect to ideas of the importance of social environment to personal development. An important aspect of this discussion is an examination of different notions of identity. I try to articulate a notion of identity which may be reconciled with ideas of social construction, important to feminists.
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Huang, Bi Yun. "Analyzing a social movement's use of Internet resource mobilization, new social movement theories and the case of Falun Gong /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386686.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4498. Adviser: Howard S. Rosenbaum.
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Gilleo, Wayne M. "Examining continued use of software as a service in organizations." Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3646094.
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Information systems can be used to increase competitiveness by increasing the effectiveness and speed of decision-making. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a subset of cloud computing that provides information systems functionality through a web browser. Organizations that adopt SaaS can receive value over time if they continue to use the SaaS solution after implementation. This study analyzed the extent to which SaaS adoption and continued use factors affect the continued use of SaaS in organizations. The research can help organizations maximize the value of SaaS by identifying success factors for continued use. The study determined the extent to which the independent factors of Rapport, Responsiveness, Reliability, Features, Security, Flexibility, and Marketing Effort affected the dependent variable of the decision makers' intent to continue use of SaaS within their organization. Participants in the study included IT managers and other technologists familiar with the use of SaaS in their workplace. Invitations were sent via email to IT managers and technologists working at a large aerospace organization. There was also an open invitation posted on a social media site used by customers of a large SaaS provider. The invitations resulted in 101 valid responses. The Extended SaaS-Qual model developed in this study is an extension of an earlier model developed to analyze SaaS continuance. The original SaaS-Qual model was extended to understand the effect of marketing on SaaS continuance intention. Statistical analysis including loadings, internal consistency, convergent validity, and discriminate validity showed strong support for the Extended SaaS-Qual model. The Extended SaaS-Qual model will help with the establishment of standardized measures for the benefit of both SaaS providers and SaaS users.
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Malopinsky, Larissa V. "Facilitating organizational change the use of activity theory as a framework for social construction of strategic knowledge /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3297945.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Instructional Systems Technology, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-03, Section: A, page: 1062. Adviser: Thomas M. Schwen. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 30, 2008).
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Saunders, Lewis O. "The relationship between cell phone use and identity theft." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3615824.
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The growth of mobile phone use has paralleled increased reports of identity theft. Identity theft can result in financial loss and threats to a victim's personal safety. Although trends in identity theft are well-known, less is known about individual cell phone users' attitudes toward identity theft and the extent to which they connect it to cell phone use. The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine how cell phone use is affected by attitudes toward privacy and identity theft. The study was based on social impact theory, according to which people's attitudes and behavior are affected by the strength and immediacy of others' attitudes and behavior. The research questions concerned the extent to which participants connected cell phone use with decreasing privacy and increasing cybercrime, how the use of biometrics affected cell phone users' attitudes and behavior, and what steps can be taken to reduce the misuse of private information associated with cell phone use. Data collection consisted of personal interviews with representatives from 3 groups: a private biometrics company, individual cell phone users who earn more than $55,000 a year, and individual cell phone users who earn less than $55,000 a year. Interviews were transcribed and coded for themes and patterns. Findings showed that interviewees were more likely to see identity theft as a problem among the public at large than in the industries in which they worked. Participants recommended a variety of measures to improve cell phone security and to reduce the likelihood of identity theft: passwords, security codes, voice or fingerprint recognition, and encryption. The implications for positive social change include informing government officials and individual users about the use and abuse of cell phones in order to decrease violations of privacy and identity theft while still promoting national security.
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Derwas, Philip. "Multi-dimensional information representation - enabling the visually impaired to access graphical user interfaces and documents." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341264.
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Barboa, Elvia. "The use of a culturally sensitive video in presenting AIDS information to a Hispanic population." Scholarly Commons, 1998. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2719.
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There is a growing number of Hispanics contracting the AIDS virus. Very little comprehensive culturally sensitive information is available to less acculturated Hispanics. Research has supported that the most effective channel of AIDS information is electronic media. Pamphlets and other print media appear to be an effective source of information for more acculturated literate Hispanics. The present study compared the effectiveness of two videos which differ in cultural sensitivity versus a control group to teach AIDS awareness to less acculturated Hispanics. Ninety (44 males and 46 females) Spanish speaking Hispanics were randomly assigned to the three groups. It was predicted that the more culturally sensitive video would be more informative and would reduce erroneous beliefs more than the standard factual, less culturally sensitive video. There were no significant differences found between the two video groups as measured by the AIDS knowledge questionnaire. Significant differences were found when the video groups were compared to the control group. Video groups scored higher on the AIDS knowledge questionnaire. Implications of the study are discussed.
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Grulke, Eric. "Digital government, trust and cynicism : an empirical analysis of social capital and the use of technology by governmental institutions." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2008/E_Grulke_110308.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2008.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 26, 2010). "Department of Political Science." Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212).
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Molosky, Vincent. "The Influence of Identifiable Personality Traits on Nurses’ Intention to Use Wireless Implantable Medical Devices." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/1078.
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Technically-driven medical devices such as wireless implantable medical devices (WIMD) have become ubiquitous within healthcare. The use of these devices has changed the way nurses administer patient care. Consequently, the nursing workforce is large and diverse, and with it comes an expected disparity in personalities. Research involving human factors and technology acceptance in healthcare is not new. Yet due to the changing variables in the manner of which patient care is being administered, both in person and in the mechanism of treatment, recent research suggests that individual human factors such as personality traits may hold unknown implications involving more successful adoption of emerging technologies for patient care.
The purpose of this research was to empirically investigate the influence of personality traits on a nurse’s intention to use WIMDs for patient care. One hundred and two nurses from a tertiary teaching hospital in Michigan were surveyed to determine if their identifiable personality traits statistically related to their intention to use a WIMD. A predictive model was developed by combining constructs from the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model and the Five Factor personality trait model (FFM). The model used moderated multiple regression (MMR) to statistically identify if the personality traits of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, moderated one or more statistically significant relationships between 1) performance expectancy (PE) and intention to use (IU), 2) effort expectancy (EE) and IU, 3) and social influence (SI) and IU. It was predicted that PE, EE, and SI would show statistical significance on a nurse’s IU of a WIMD when moderated by one or more of the five personality traits. Results showed statistical significance between PE and IU, and EE and IU, but not between SI and IU, when moderated by extraversion. Results showed no statistical significance between PE and IU, EE and IU, or SI and IU when moderated by openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, or neuroticism.
This research has contributed by conducting an investigation on individual human factors that may impact nurses’ intention to use emerging technologies; and by providing statistical evidence that may help to better predict the role personality traits have on a nurse’s adoption of WIMDs for patient care.
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Kraal, Ben J. "Considering design for automatic speech recognition in use." Thesis, University of Canberra, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16990/1/c16990.pdf.
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Talking to a computer is hard. Large vocabulary automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are difficult to use and yet they are used by many people in their daily work. This thesis addresses the question: How is ASR used and made usable and useful in the workplace now? To answer these questions I went into two workplaces where ASR is currently used and one where ASR could be used in the future. This field work was done with designing in mind. ASR dictation systems are currently used in the Australian Public Service (APS) by people who suffer chronic workplace overuse injuries and in the Hansard department of Parliament House (Hansard) by un-injured people. Analysing the experiences of the users in the APS and at Hansard showed that using an ASR system in the workplace follows a broad trajectory that ends in the continued effort to maintain its usefulness. The usefulness of the ASR systems is "performed into existence" by the users with varying degrees of success. For both the APS and Hansard users, they use ASR to allow work to be performed; ASR acts to bridge the gap between otherwise incompatible ways of working. This thesis also asks: How could ASR be used and made usable and useful in workplaces in the future? To answer this question, I observed the work of communicating sentences at the ACT Magistrates Court. Communicating sentences is a process that is distributed in space and time throughout the Court and embodied in a set of documents that have a co-ordinating role. A design for an ASR system that supports the process of communicating sentences while respecting existing work process is described. Moving from field work to design is problematic. This thesis performs the process of moving from field work to design, as described above, and reflects the use of various analytic methods used to distill insights from field work data. The contributions of this thesis are: * The pragmatic use of existing social research methods and their antecedents as a corpus of analyses to inspire new designs; * a demonstration of the use of Actor-Network Theory in design both as critique and as part of a design process; * empirical field-work evidence of how large vocabulary ASR is used in the workplace; * a design showing how ASR could be introduced to the rich, complicated, environment of the ACT Magistrates Court; and, * a performance of the process of moving from field work to design.
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Hale, Scott A. "Global connectivity, information diffusion, and the role of multilingual users in user-generated content platforms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3040a250-c526-4f10-aa9b-25117fd4dea2.
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Internet content and Internet users are becoming more linguistically diverse as more people speaking different languages come online and produce content on user-generated content platforms. Several platforms have emerged as truly global platforms with users speaking many different languages and coming from around the world. It is now possible to study human behavior on these platforms using the digital trace data the platforms make available about the content people are authoring. Network literature suggests that people cluster together by language, but also that there is a small average path length between any two people on most Internet platforms (including two speakers of different languages). If so, multilingual users may play critical roles as bridges or brokers on these platforms by connecting clusters of monolingual users together across languages. The large differences in the content available in different languages online underscores the importance of such roles. This thesis studies the roles of multilingual users and platform design on two large, user-generated content platforms: Wikipedia and Twitter. It finds that language has a strong role structuring each platform, that multilingual users do act as linguistic bridges subject to certain limitations, that the size of a language correlates with the roles its speakers play in cross-language connections, and that there is a correlation between activity and multilingualism. In contrast to the general understanding in linguistics of high levels of multilingualism offline, this thesis finds relatively low levels of multilingualism on Twitter (11%) and Wikipedia (15%). The findings have implications for both platform design and social network theory. The findings suggest design strategies to increase multilingualism online through the identification and promotion of multilingual starter tasks, the discovery of related other-language information, and the promotion of user choice in linguistic filtering. While weak-ties have received much attention in the social networks literature, cross-language ties are often not distinguished from same-language weak ties. This thesis finds that cross-language ties are similar to same-language weak ties in that both connect distant parts of the network, have limited bandwidth, and yet transfer a non-trivial amount of information when considered in aggregate. At the same time, cross-language ties are distinct from same-language weak ties for the purposes of information diffusion. In general cross-language ties are smaller in number than same-language ties, but each cross-language tie may convey more diverse information given the large differences in the content available in different languages and the relative ease with which a multilingual speaker may access content in multiple languages compared to a monolingual speaker.
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Raman, Nair R. "An investigative and evaluative study of factors affecting quality of agricultural and farm information services in Kerala." Thesis, University of Kerala, 2004. http://eprints.rclis.org/10014/1/2004Thesis.pdf.
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Agriculture is not only a country’s backbone of food, livelihood and ecological security systems, but is also the very soul of its sovereignty. In Kerala population density is high and land is scarce. To achieve sustainable advancement in quality of human life, meeting the domestic food requirement is to be given foremost priority in development plans. As the area of cultivation cannot be increased and growth of population cannot be controlled growth in food production is to be achieved by qualitative improvement in farming. This requires improvements in material inputs, farming techniques, storage technology and research. Effective integration of these factors is tied closely to adequate information flow, which can be ensured only by an efficient information system for agricultural education, research, extension and development. So evaluation and improvement of existing information services is very crucial for sustainable agricultural growth. The study evaluates the existing information resources, facilities, services, possibilities for resource sharing, accessibility of external sources, and the factors that affect the quality and efficiency of information services in agricultural sector. Coverage is limited to the State of Kerala. Sample consist 105 institutions of different levels, and information users consisting of 426 scientists and 220 farmers. Different sets of questionnaires and interview schedule were used to elicit information. The study found that agricultural research conducted at various institutions in the region at huge public expense has generated knowledge for improving production. Along with these huge collections of acquired content is also stored in the sector. But when a farmer, an extension worker, a scientist or an administrator needs information it is not easily accessible. The study found that agricultural sector fails to effectively bank on information resources available due to the lack of an information system and network. Recommends an Agricultural and Farm Information System for Kerala. Suggests a model plan for a computer communication network for resource sharing between the agricultural institutions in the State, which will also ensure, smooth flow of results of research down to the grassroots level to achieve maximum productivity in agriculture.
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Sequeiros, Paula. "Ler uma biblioteca nas inscrições de leitores, espaço e Internet : usos e representações de biblioteca pública." Doctoral thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/50425.
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Apresenta-se investigação, teoricamente orientada e empiricamente suportada, explorando e desenvolvendo possíveis relações entre usos da biblioteca pública, nas vertentes do uso de recursos documentais, do espaço e da Internet, por um lado, e, por outro, as suas representações. Recorrendo a uma abordagem qualitativa, aplicou-se o método de caso alargado, de Michael Burawoy, à Biblioteca Almeida Garrett na cidade do Porto. As ferramentas de recolha de informação foram entrevistas semiestruturadas, em profundidade, análise de desenhos de crianças, observação, análise documental de textos oficiais e fotografia. Entrevistaram-se vários leitores e leitoras, incluindo não-utilizadores de Internet, responsáveis, técnicos e pessoal de atendimento da biblioteca, assim como o arquitecto. Como resultados intermédios são apresentados vários perfis de utilizadores e é avançada uma explicação para a génese e funcionamento dum sistema tácito de regulação de condutas, sobretudo no que ao ruído diz respeito. Como resultado final conclui-se que não há nenhum «impacte» claramente disruptivo induzido pela Internet nas representações recolhidas e analisadas, colocadas em relação com as alterações recentemente registadas nas práticas leiturais: algumas imagens representacionais há em que a Internet reforça a imagem tradicional de biblioteca como organização enciclopédica, como conjunto de recursos diversificados; outras há em que, se o seu uso contribuirá, por um lado, para esse reforço, por outro, atualiza e democratiza essa representação pela abertura a práticas não eruditas e pela propiciação de usos recreativos, ou ainda de usos comunicacionais e instrumentais baseados na Internet; em situações mais extremas, quando biblioteca e Internet se usam como termos sinónimos da gramática representacional, (...).
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Diagne, Yacine. "Sociologie politique d'une expérience de démocratie participative. Le cas d'une radio communautaire au Sénégal." Thesis, Paris 9, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA090018/document.
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Ayant pour ambition de « rendre la parole » aux populations déshéritées de la ville de Pikine, banlieue de la capitale sénégalaise, Débat local est l’émission politique interactive de la radio communautaire Air’Jeunes fondée à la fin des années quatre-vingt-dix à l’initiative des associations de jeunes de la région dakaroise avec le soutien d’une grande ONG canadienne. Cette thèse étudie les usages de cette émission par les citoyens locaux dans les trois domaines principaux où les militants et promoteurs de la démocratie participative s’attachent à développer des dispositifs d’action citoyenne visant à corriger les défauts et insuffisances du gouvernement représentatif au regard de l’idéal démocratique : la place des citoyens dans le système de production des biens publics locaux, les relations symboliques entre les élus et les électeurs et l’espace public de débat sur les politiques publiques et l’action des représentants. À partir d’une étude de terrain à caractère ethnographique menée en trois séquences de 2006 à 2011 dans les studios de la radio et sur les lieux d’écoute de l’émission, il apparaît que si l’émission a permis à des formes de contestation du pouvoir local de s’exprimer publiquement sans médiation, la réalisation du projet originel de l’émission s’est heurtée à un contexte local défavorable marqué par l’absence de moyens donnés aux élus locaux pour exercer leurs compétences récemment décentralisées et par un journalisme politique local polarisé autour de deux formes dominantes laissant peu de place au débat argumenté : le journalisme antagonique des grands groupes privés et de la petite presse du secteur informel et le journalisme légitimiste du groupe public. En dépit de leur attachement militant au projet, les responsables de la radio et les animateurs de l’émission dont les origines sociales et les formations scolaires les tenaient très éloignés des formes de consommation des biens informationnels des Pikinois ainsi que des activités des associations informelles de quartier très vivantes dans la banlieue dakaroise ont progressivement cédé aux forces d’attraction qu’exerçaient les radios privées ordinaires sur leur vision de leur avenir professionnel personnel et, corrélativement, sur leur pratique journalistiqueAspiring to “give a voice” to the poor people of Pikine, a suburb of the Senegalese capital, “Local Debate” is an interactive political programme of the community radio Air’Jeunes, created in the late nineties at the initiative of youth associations in the Dakar region with support from a major Canadian NGO. This thesis explores the use of this programme by local citizens in three main areas where activists and proponents of participatory democracy are committed to developing citizen action mechanisms, aiming to correct the defects and shortcomings under the democratic ideal of representative government: the role of citizens in the production system of local public goods, symbolic relationships between elected leaders and electors, and the public space for debate on public policies and the actions of representatives. Based on an ethnographic field study conducted in three phases between 2006 and 2011 in the radio production studio and the show’s listening sites, it appears that, even if the programme has enabled forms of contestation of local authority to be voiced publicly without mediation, the realisation of the original project faced an unfavourable local context marked by the lack of resources given to local officials to exercise their newly decentralised powers and a local political journalism polarised around two dominant forms, leaving little room for debate: the antagonistic journalism of big private groups and small informal press, and the legitimising journalism of the public service group. Despite their militant commitment to the project, radio staff and hosts whose social origins and educational backgrounds distance them from the forms of consumption of information goods and activities of Pikine’s inhabitants, as well as the dynamic activities of informal neighbourhood associations in the suburbs of Dakar, have gradually yielded to forces of attraction exercised by mainstream private radios, influencing their vision of their professional future and, in turn, their journalistic practice
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Brandt, Patrik. "Information in use : aspects of information quality in workflows /." Karlskrona : School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2007. http://www.bth.se/fou/Forskinfo.nsf/01f1d3898cbbd490c12568160037fb62/e7dea68ff7c42604c12572b10051f3e6!OpenDocument.
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Jammet, Thomas. "Mettre le web social au service des marques : une sociologie pragmatique du community management en France." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC0051/document.
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L’essor du « web 2.0 », couramment qualifié de web participatif ou social, a réactivé le vocable de la « communauté » pour désigner le regroupement spontané d’internautes autour de sujets de discussion ou de projets communs. À mesure que se développent les plateformes informatisées d’échange d’information et de contenu, au premier rang desquelles Facebook et Twitter, les annonceurs les investissent massivement de leur présence, sous forme de pages et de comptes de marque, pour tirer profit de l’expressivité des internautes au prisme de la « communauté de marque ». La gestion de ces espaces promotionnels innovants est confiée à une nouvelle catégorie de prestataires de service – les community managers – chargés de promouvoir l’offre des organisations et de répondre à la demande ininterrompue d’informations des consommateurs. C’est ce double mécanisme de la relecture marchande des collectifs en ligne et de la visée stratégique de leur administration qui est questionné ici. Le community management est traité comme un accomplissement pratique, afin de saisir la manière dont une doctrine du marketing s’inscrit dans une activité professionnelle qui se reconfigure au fil de vagues successives de rationalisation de la communication numérique de marque. Ce faisant, cette recherche souhaite contribuer à une sociologie pragmatique qui refuse de réifier le processus de « transformation numérique » de nos sociétés, pour décrire la manière dont celui-ci est performé par une pluralité d’acteurs qui œuvrent à aligner l’expressivité des consommateurs connectés sur les besoins des entreprisesThe rise of “Web 2.0”, commonly referred to as social or participatory Web, has reactivated the terminology of “community” to characterize the spontaneous gathering of individuals around joint discussion topics or projects. As the computerized information and content sharing platforms – such as Facebook and Twitter – develop, companies are heavily investing them by creating brand pages and accounts permitting them to take advantage of the expressivity of Internet users through the prism of the “brand community”. The animation of these innovative promotional spaces is entrusted to a new category of service providers – the community managers – responsible for promoting organizations and responding to the consumers’ ongoing demands for information. This thesis questions the dual mechanism of online collectives’ commercial reinterpretation and of the strategic aim of their management.Considering community management as a practical achievement, the analysis describes how a marketing doctrine is being unfolded in a professional activity that is successively reconfigured through the rationalization of digital brand communication. By doing so, this research wishes to contribute to a pragmatic sociology that refuses to reify the process of “digital transformation” of our societies by describing how the latter is performed by a plurality of actors working to adjust the expressiveness of connected consumers to the companies’ needs
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Hill, Belinda Kaye. "Weaving information : students' use of the Internet to find information /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7667.
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Myers, Robert N. Zapata Edwar. "Linking information for mobile use." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Sep%5FMyers_Zapata.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007.Thesis Advisor(s): Singh, Gurminder ; Das, Arijit. "September 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78). Also available in print.
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Zapata, Edwar. "Linking information for mobile use." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3235.
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Information Management (IM) has been an area of research and discussion for several decades. Studies have been conducted by behavioral and computer scientists on how people organize their information and workspaces in order to come up with efficient ways to store, organize and retrieve information on personal computers. This thesis explores improving a user's ability to manage information on mobile devices. The goal is to make placing information on such devices a more attractive prospect, with an emphasis on retrieval of stored information regardless of the document type. This will result in mobile users having quick access to the right information at the right time while away from the office or home. This thesis describes the challenges inherent in a mobile scenario and the system designed to address those challenges. The system provides visual and navigational features that are not currently available on mobile devices, specifically the ability to view multiple types of items in a single interface. Additionally, the ability to logically link related items as an IM tool is examined.
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Busari, Olasunkanmi Abiola. "The Spatial Distribution and Socioeconomic Impacts of African Immigrants in the US: The Case of Nigerians in Toledo Metropolitan Region, Northwest Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1573836229975897.
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Cheng, Grace Y. T., and n/a. "Measuring electronic information systems: the use of the information behaviour model." University of Canberra. Information Management and Tourism, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050628.150806.
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This study focused on measuring the importance and contribution of information obtained from the
library, particularly electronic information services (EIS), to success in solving clinical problems in
hospitals. Three research questions with three main hypotheses were advanced and tested on clinicians
in 44 hospitals in Hong Kong. The findings were tested against the framework from Wilson's (1996)
existing general information behaviour model, from which a new extended model for clinicians was
built. Measures of EIS were then derived from the new model.
The research was broadly divided into a series of five studies in two stages: nominal group,
quantitative survey, and interviews in the first stage, and randomized controlled study as well as the
analyses of statistical data and computer transaction logs in the second stage. The key results in Stage I
led to the studies in Stage 11. The randomized controlled study in Stage 11 attempted to reduce the
barriers identified in the information environment, with a view to test the results of an educational
intervention, and to confirm that the hypotheses were true given reduced barriers and the presence of
enabling conditions. The effects of the interventions in this experimental study were validated and
verified by statistical data and transaction logs.
Corroborative evidence from the two-stage studies showed that the three main inter-connected
hypotheses were supported: success in problem-solving is related to the information sources used; user
satisfaction is related to success in problem-solving; and EIS use is an indicator of user satisfaction.
EIS use is determined by a number of factors: the preference for EIS, the use of the library, the skills
and knowledge in searching, the profession of the user and the characteristics of the work environment.
Educational intervention was found to improve success in problem-solving, the attitudes, skills and
knowledge in searching, the satisfaction with and use of EIS, and is an important enabling condition.
The research rejected part of the first hypothesis posed that success in problem-solving is related to
clinical question posed and suggests that further research is needed in this area.
The study supported the extension of the general model to clinical information needs and
behaviours and found new relationships. The study found an additional determinant of EIS
satisfaction, the satisfaction with the information obtained. EIS satisfaction would not be changed by
educational intervention alone if the information obtained was not satisfactory. On the other hand,
education can improve EIS satisfaction regardless of whether the problem has been solved. Of critical
importance is the time factor in determining the use (or non-use) of EIS. There is new evidence that
the awareness of the user of an answer in literature is a determining factor for active searching.
Borrowing the concept of opportunity cost from economic theory, the researcher relates it with the
differing levels of self-efficacy and postulates a model for planning EIS and related library services.
From the new extended model of information behaviour, sixteen main measures or indicators
were tested on a proposed framework in developing performance measures to diagnose information
behaviours and predict EIS use, satisfaction and success in problem-solving. In measuring EIS, the
researcher suggested the holistic approach in assessing traditional (non-electronic) library and
information services as part of information behaviours of clinicians. The study pointed to the
imbalance between self-efficacy and the actual skills and knowledge of users in their searching
mentality and activities and the implication for library practice. Qualitative aspects that require further
research on measurement were suggested.
The study has important ramifications for theory and practice for the information professional.
The new extended model of information behaviour for clinicians establishes deterministic relationships
that help explain why an information search is pursued actively, continuously, or not at all. Measures
that have been derived from these relationships can help diagnose and predict information behaviours.
The study highlights the flexibility and utility of the general model of information behaviour. Also,
this is the first time that such a methodological approach has been adopted to derive EIS measures.
The application of the randomized controlled study methodology in information science was proven to
be feasible and yielded definitive results. The researcher proposes that further development of
information behaviour model should incorporate the element of knowledge generation process in an
organization.
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Van, Zee Emily Hanke. "Use of information in decision deliberation /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9085.
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Dawson, Erika H. "Social information use in social insects." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7980.
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Social learning plays a valuable role in the lives of many animal taxa, sometimes allowing individuals to bypass the costs of personal exploration. The ubiquity of this behaviour may arise from the fact that learning from others is often underpinned by simple learning processes that also enable individuals to learn asocially. Insects have proven to be particularly valuable models for investigating parsimonious hypotheses with regards to social learning processes, due to their small brain sizes and the prevalence of social information use in their life histories. In this thesis, I use social insects to further investigate the mechanisms underlying more complex social learning behaviours and explore the circumstances under which social information use manifests. In the first chapter, I investigate the proximate mechanisms underlying social learning and demonstrate that even seemingly complex social learning behaviours can arise through simple associative learning processes. In Chapter two, I investigate whether bees are more predisposed to learning from conspecific cues and discover that social information is learnt to a greater extent than information originating from non-social sources. In Chapter four, I demonstrate that classical conditioning also underpins learning from evolved social signals in honeybees. Finally, I investigate whether social information is used adaptively by bumblebees: Chapter three demonstrates that joining behaviour in free-flying bees is contingent upon whether flowers are familiar or not, and in Chapter six, I show that when social information is costly to acquire, bees are more likely to rely on social information to make foraging decisions. Taken as a whole, my findings suggest that bees may be specially adapted for receiving social information, but the ability to learn from others arises through general associative learning mechanisms.
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Wimalasuriya, Daya Chinthana. "Use of ontologies in information extraction." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11216.
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xiii, 149 p. : ill. (some col.)Information extraction (IE) aims to recognize and retrieve certain types of information from natural language text. For instance, an information extraction system may extract key geopolitical indicators about countries from a set of web pages while ignoring other types of information. IE has existed as a research field for a few decades, and ontology-based information extraction (OBIE) has recently emerged as one of its subfields. Here, the general idea is to use ontologies--which provide formal and explicit specifications of shared conceptualizations--to guide the information extraction process. This dissertation presents two novel directions for ontology-based information extraction in which ontologies are used to improve the information extraction process. First, I describe how a component-based approach for information extraction can be designed through the use of ontologies in information extraction. A key idea in this approach is identifying components of information extraction systems which make extractions with respect to specific ontological concepts. These components are termed "information extractors". The component-based approach explores how information extractors as well as other types of components can be used in developing information extraction systems. This approach has the potential to make a significant contribution towards the widespread usage and commercialization of information extraction. Second, I describe how an ontology-based information extraction system can make use of multiple ontologies. Almost all previous systems use a single ontology, although multiple ontologies are available for most domains. Using multiple ontologies in information extraction has the potential to extract more information from text and thus leads to an improvement in performance measures. The concept of information extractor, conceived in the component-based approach for information extraction, is used in designing the principles for accommodating multiple ontologies in an ontology-based information extraction system.
Committee in charge: Dr. Dejing Dou, Chair; Dr. Arthur Farley, Member; Dr. Michal Young, Member; Dr. Monte Westerfield, Outside Member
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Lundqvist, Magnus. "Information Demand and Use : Improving Information Flow within Small-scale Business Contexts." Licentiate thesis, Linköping : Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings universitet, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9666.
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Kitheka, Julius Mwaniki Carleton University Dissertation Management Studies. "Export information: an investigation into the use of sources of export information." Ottawa, 1994.
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Tonsaker, Tabitha. "Caregivers and web-based health information: An exploratory qualitative study of information seeking, information use, and perspectives." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119768.
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Background: With Canada's aging population, increasing prevalence of chronic disease, and overburdened healthcare systems, there is a growing pressure on family caregivers to manage the care of their family members or friends. The demands of caregiving, however, can be challenging and may result in caregiver distress and an inability for caregivers to continue in their role. To help address this issue, interventions that are developed to support caregivers may contribute to greater confidence, capacity and satisfaction with their role, as well as better outcomes for their care recipient. The Internet is one area that now plays a significant role in information delivery and support services. Offering web-based support to caregivers may assist this population to provide quality care and remain in good health. In particular, online information based upon personal health and illness experiences (PHEx) could be particularly helpful for those populations, such as caregivers, that are isolated and lack support services. In order to provide optimal support and services to caregivers through web-based initiatives, a better understanding for how caregivers search for and use online health information is needed. Furthermore, it will be valuable to explore caregivers' perspectives towards online PHEx information, as this may be an especially appealing and valuable means of information delivery for this population. Methods: Three focus groups were conducted with a total of 16 people to explore how caregivers retrieve and use health information on the Internet, as well as their perspectives towards the structure, design, and content of an online PHEx website. Results: 1) In terms of how caregivers retrieve and use online health information, three broad themes were identified: searching for and choosing online health information; empowerment through use of online health information; and concerns with health information on the Internet. 2) In terms of caregivers' perspectives towards the structure, design, and content of a PHEx website, two broad themes were identified: factors important for first impressions of a PHEx website; and perceived needs and expectations for the content presented on a PHEx website. Conclusions: Caregivers offered key insights regarding online health information retrieval, usage, and other perspectives, which will be helpful for future web-based initiatives that aim to provide support to caregivers. Two conceptual frameworks are proposed related to: 1) health information website retrieval and usage, and 2) features important for a PHEx website on caregiving.Contexte: Avec la population du Canada qui vieillit, une augmentation du taux de maladies chroniques, et un système de santé surchargé, une pression se développe sur les aidants naturels pour prendre en charge les soins de leurs proches. Ces demandes peuvent être difficiles, résultant en un accumulation de stress pour les aidants et les empêchant de continuer dans leur rôle. Cependant, il existe des preuves qui suggèrent que les interventions qui supportent les aidants peuvent contribuer à augmenter leur confiance, leur capacité de travailler, leur satisfaction dans leur rôle, ainsi que de meilleurs résultats pour les proches qui bénéficient de leurs soins. De nos jours, Internet joue un rôle important dans l'acquisition d'information et dans les services de support. Il est possible que de rendre ces supports disponibles aux aidants naturels peut aider ces derniers à fournir des soins de qualité tout en restant en bonne santé. En particulier, l'information basée sur la santé personnelle et l'expérience des maladies (SPEx) est devenue particulièrement intéressante pour le public, et pourrait être utile pour les populations qui sont isolées et qui manquent de services de support, tels que les aidants naturels. Afin de fournir de meilleurs services et plus de support aux aidants naturels avec des initiatives basées sur Internet, nous devons développer une meilleure compréhension de la façon dont les aidants naturels recherchent et utilisent l'information qui se trouve sur Internet. De plus, il est utile d'explorer le point de vue des aidants naturels par rapport à l'information SPEx sur Internet, car cela peut être un moyen utile de recueillir de l'information pour eux. Méthodes: Trois groupes, avec un total de 16 participants chacun, ont été formé pour explorer de quelle façon les aidants naturels recherchent et utilisent l'information sur la santé trouvée sur l'Internet, ainsi que leurs opinions par rapport à la structure, à la disposition, et au contenu d'un site web SPEx. Résultats: 1) Trois grands thèmes ont été identifiés en relation à la façon dont les aidants naturels récupèrent et utilisent l'information sur la santé trouvée sur Internet: la recherche et le choix d'informations sur la santé; l'autonomisation grâce à l'utilisation de cette information, et les préoccupations en lien avec l'information sur la santé trouvée sur Internet. 2) Concernant les opinions des aidants naturels par rapport à la structure, la conception et le contenu d'un site web SPEx, deux grands thèmes ont été identifiés: les facteurs qui influencent les premières impressions d'un site web SPEx, et les besoins et attentes envers le contenu présenté sur un site web SPEx. Conclusions: Les aidants naturels ont fourni des renseignements importants concernant la recherche et l'utilisation d'information à propos de la santé trouvée sur Internet, ainsi que des perspectives qui seront utiles pour le dévelopement d'initiatives visant à offrir du support aux aidants naturels sur Internet. Deux suggestions sont proposées en rapport avec: 1) la recherche et l'usage de l'information a propos de la santé trouvée sur un site web; et 2) les charactéristiques importantes d'un site web sur les soins SPEx.
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Mohajeri, Kaveh. "THEORIZING WHEN USER REACTION TO IT IMPLEMENTATION IS NEITHER RESISTANCE NOR ACCEPTANCE, BUT CONSTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR: A CASE STUDY OF HEALTHCARE IT IMPLEMENTATION." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3830.
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The prevailing discourse of “resistance vs. acceptance” in IT implementation research mostly personalizes the issue as “users” versus IT implementers (e.g., managers, CIOs, CMIOs, etc.). This kind of discourse has created an IT-implementer-centric attitude among IS scholars and practitioners. The IT-implementer-centric attitude, while embraces “acceptance” as a desirable reaction almost unconditionally, frequently holds for minimizing or more conservatively suppressing “resistance” to IT implementation. In other words, the mainstream IT implementation research, almost completely, treats “users” as passive recipients whose choices, as they face pre-developed/pre-designed/pre-rolled-out technology being implemented, can only be defined on a spectrum from “acceptance” to “resistance.” The current research study, however, offers an alternative perspective that views the “resistance vs. acceptance” duality “from the other side,” i.e., from the perspective of the supposed “resistors” or “acceptors” themselves. Through a review of the literature, this study first identifies major drawbacks of the extant theories and models of IT implementation research. Next, drawing on an interpretive paradigm of research (more specifically, phenomenological sociology), this study investigates a real world case of healthcare IT implementation. The results of the aforementioned literature review and case investigation subsequently form the basis for the study’s proposed theoretical account, which provides an unprecedented understanding and explanation of how actors representing different stakeholder groups, among which people who are routinely called “users” are but one group, experience IT implementation as they live their everyday lives. The proposed theoretical account is lastly used as a guide for crafting both practical and research prescriptions with respect to managing IT-involved change occasions.
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Sezgin, Emre. "Itmem - Information Technology Management Enhancement Model: Assessment Of Information Technology Use In Organizations." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612353/index.pdf.
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This study proposes a new model for the assessment of information technology (IT) use in public and private companies, which is called ITMEM- Information Technology Management Enhancement Model. This model aims to assist decision making processes in information technology management. For this purpose, a tool is developed to explore strengths and weaknesses of a company in IT use. The model was developed upon a three-folded structure including (1) academic studies in technology management, (2) best practices which are developed for control over operations and processes including COBIT, CMMI and ITIL, and (3) standards about IT management and IT security. The conceptual framework of ITMEM is based on technology management process assessment model of M.J. Gregory. Methodological triangulation approach is adopted for the model for retrieving valid and reliable results. Triangulation consists of (1) semi structured interview, (2) presented company documents and (3) questionnaire developed upon relevant academic researches, best practices and standards. ITMEM was practiced on ten domestic and experienced companies in software &development and manufacturing industries which were appraised in or in progress of being appraised in CMMI. The study revealed the benefits and deficiencies of IT use in the company. It also provided information for decision makers about IT value within companies, and demonstrated the effects of best practices and standards over IT use.The reported findings should be valuable assets to researchers studying on IT management and IT use in organizations.
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Fung, Yat-chu, and 馮一柱. "Information technology and empowerment in information society: use of computers amongst senior persons." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245298.
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Molenaar, Daryn. "Perception of information : enriching location specific information through the use of calm computing." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2276.
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Thesis (MTech (Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011.Many studies have been conducted on the interaction between environments and relevant information in the field of interaction design. Most of these studies are focused on increasing the awareness of technology, information and the interaction between them. This awareness could negatively lead to an increase in information overload where each bit of information is competing to be the centre of a person's attention. This information overload gets compounded even more when a person is in a public place because of the amount of available commercial information like billboards, digital displays and printed media which are constantly pushing information into the space. Cognitive studies have shown that human beings have a limit to the amount of information they can consciously focus on and process. When a person reaches information saturation, the quality of their decision-making ability deteriorates drastically (Bray, 2008). Information overload can lead to a situation called decision paralysis. The research proposed an investigation into the possibility of decreasing information overload through the use of calm computing. Relevant information could be pushed to the periphery where it could be accessed or attended to when it was needed. It was argued that when the intake of peripheral information could become an unconscious activity, mainly through the use of ubiquitous computing, more attention could be given to other important activities like increasing social interaction in public spaces.
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Bullen, Alison Maeve. "Parliamentary Committees : strategy for improved information use /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/989.
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Kirk, Joyce. "Theorising information use : managers and their work /." Electronic version, 2002. http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20031028.165129/index.html.
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Cameron, Tamara. "Representing information use in an educational setting." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3390.
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The purpose of this study is to describe how a high school student retrieves information in order to write a history research paper, and to investigate the role genre plays in this process of search and paper construction. This study interrogates the conditions under which students are sent to the library to complete research assignments. What is absent from the research of school library use is how the kinds of knowledge expected from the students, and how the kinds of uses and manipulations that information is to be put through are connected to the access and retrieval of information. Because use is the final stage in the information process, this problem is approached by examining the assumptions about language, knowledge, and genre that teachers and students bring to research assignments in the school library. Rhetorical genre theory may be used to construct a representation of information use within an educational setting. Rhetorical genre theory will also be used to determine the method of analysis. By examining a few instances of high school history research, we can begin to systematize the features found beyond the sample to a larger study. An interdisciplinary approach that integrates classification theory, information seeking behavior, and rhetorical practices may help to characterize effective models in information retrieval. This model may provide a structure for understanding how a core set of research tasks utilizes a certain set of genres.
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Watson, Neville. "Alcohol use and biases in information processing." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505823.
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Robbin, Alice, and Heather Koball. "Seeking explanation in theory: Reflections on the social practices of organizations that distribute public use microdata files for research purposes." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106320.
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Public concern about personal privacy has recently focused on issues of Internet data security and personal information as big business. The scientific discourse about information privacy focuses on the crosspressures of maintaining confidentiality and ensuring access in the context of the production of statistical data for public policy and social research and the associated technical solutions for releasing statistical data. This article reports some of the key findings from a smallscale survey of organizational practices to limit disclosure of confidential information prior to publishing public use microdata files, and illustrates how the rules for preserving confidentiality were applied in practice. Explanation for the apparent deficits and wide variations in the extent of knowledge about statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) methods is located in theories of organizational life and communities of practice. The article concludes with suggestions for improving communication between communities of practice to enhance the knowledge base of those responsible for producing public use microdata files.
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Drexel, Veronika. "Navigation im Informations-Orbit : Die Kultivierung der Wissenslandschaft am Beispiel des Vorarlberger Jugendinformationszentrums "aha" - Tipps und Infos für Junge Leute." Thesis, 2004. http://eprints.rclis.org/11069/1/Master_Thesis_Veronika_Drexel.pdf.
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Information services face a double challenge: On the one hand they have to provide their customers with explicit knowledge which is clearly structured and exactly fits their needs, on the other hand they have to continuously create new knowledge in order to be able to play an active role in innovation processes. Considering knowledge as an organisational resource is a way of taking up this challenge and finding adequate ways of dealing with the different forms of knowledge. This paper describes the organisation as a "knowledge system" and attempts to approach the interaction of individual and collective knowledge and the resulting development of the organisation's knowledge base. This process of knowledge creation is viewed as organisational learning and analysed from different perspectives. In the second part the theoretical findings are applied to the Vorarlberg Youth Information Centre "aha" – Tipps und Infos für Junge Leute.
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Kalbande, D. T. "NETWORKING AND RESOURCE SHARING OF THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LIBRARIES IN MAHARASHTRA: A STUDY." Thesis, 2016. http://eprints.rclis.org/34217/1/01_Title%20%2817%20files%20merged%29.pdf.
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The library professional has never been exposed so much in past to the changing information scenario as it has been done now. In this age of information explosion, the technology has progressively replaced the old method of information collection, storage and retrieval. Today the walls of the library are giving way to electronic environments to establish links with information and virtual libraries that are getting shaped on the resource sharing and networking. Each individual library is acting as a place for storage and services to the users while the trend is to provide shared information to the users. Emphasis is given to access to information rather than owning it.
It is also possible to create their own institutional digital repositories by transforming their institutional publications which are in print. All this needs cooperation and support from the authorities of the colleges and active participate of library professionals.
Academic libraries in India have long desired one-stop shopping for their customers and in this electronic age their customers are demanding it to search from a single point at any physical location, and retrieve information from the library catalogue, citation form journal indexes and full text information electronic resources.
Academic libraries are facing increasing pressures from multiple sources. Libraries can no longer be expected to support research and development from their own resources due to the information explosion, increasing cost of library materials, shrinking library budgets etc. The global computer network providing access to online bibliographic information and full text delivery of request will change the way work is performed in the libraries. The most important advantage of the information age for libraries may be that the information is not limited to the items held by library rather than user can access any modern library in the world through the World Wide Web. Libraries must provide reliable, cost efficient access to information whether print or multimedia whether held locally or remotely. The need to provide information services that remove the barriers of distance and time become even more important. In earlier times libraries have always acquired and organized material so that the information is accessible more easily.
No library today can be expected to directly hold all of the resources to fulfill all the needs of its users. Rather, most libraries supplement their local collections through resource-sharing arrangements that allow them to offer their clientele access to a broader universe of materials. Libraries participate in local, regional, or global services for the borrowing and lending of materials, supported by different types of organizational relationships and technical infrastructure. (Islam, 2013)
Resource Sharing is typically composed of two activities. The first is collaborative collection development, whereby subject specializations are intended to be distributed among libraries within a clearly defined geographic region, so that individual libraries need not attempt to collect resources in all fields; but can concentrate on a particular field. The second form of resource sharing is through various document delivery mechanisms. Inter-library loan might suitably fall into this category (Grycz, 1997). No library is able to satisfy all the needs of information resources. Most libraries did not, do not and will not have all the information resources that their patrons need (Hwa-Wei Lee).
Needs of information resources can be met through the mechanism of library cooperation of sharing of resources. The appreciation of the need for cooperation leads to the formation of library consortium. To materialize the concept, first of all sever all libraries are required to come together for the mutual benefit of the respective user in the form of library cooperation. Secondly, libraries linked together with the help of communication system in terms of networking and finally they come together to acquire traditional and e-resources under the umbrella of library consortium (Chatterjee, 2007).
Network of college libraries under the umbrella of universities have been widely discussed, many projects have been initiated and undertaken at global level. In India particularly, ICAR, UGC and various educational bodies’ recommendations also emphasized the necessity of networking of college libraries. The role of university library in clustering, resource sharing among the colleges and information access by avoiding the duplication of efforts and resources is immense. The INFLIBNET and NAAC are also emphasizing university and college libraries network and ensuring the role of university library in promoting the information environment of affiliated institutions. Application of new information technology has brought dramatic changes in the library and information field. With technological advancement, libraries and information centers around the world have computerized their library routines, developed databases for shared use on computer networks. Besides, improving services and operations for improved performance, libraries have also been able to evolve effective computer networks with an aim to optimize utilization of resources and facilities.
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Gundu, Moira. "The effect of litteracy on access to and utilization of agricultural information for household food security at Chirau communal lands in Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2009. http://eprints.rclis.org/7772/1/Moira_Gundu_MAsters_THESIS.doc.
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The research sought to examine the effect of literacy on access to, and utilization of agricultural information for household food security at Chirau Communal lands in Zimbabwe. The study was influenced by the diffusion of innovations approach based on interviews, observation and document study. Selected female farmers from Chirau communal lands were respondents to the self administered interviews and focus group discussions. Representatives from, Agriculture Extension and the Ministry of Agriculture were key informants. Systematic Random sampling was used to select 100 female respondents from the age of 18 to above 80 from wards 1 to 10 of Chirau Rural District in Zimbabwe. Data was analyzed into themes and coded for statistical analysis using the SPSS.
The country is faced with food insecurity and the main findings of this study support the view that women play an active role in food production but their potential is limited by inadequate levels of literacy that affect the way they access and utilize resources for sustainable agriculture and household food security among other factors. This may be generalized to the situation of female farmers in Zimbabwe. Improved literacy competencies among the female farmers in Zimbabwe lends itself as one of the interventions that may assist in improving access to information and its effective utilization.. This calls decision-makers to boost literacy for women, develop available agricultural information resources and harness effort towards making them accessible. While interventions may be multi-sectored, the role of government is stressed in this report.
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Edgar, Sánchez Muciño Edgar Sánchez Muciño. "Tener Línea, una espectacular manera de estar en el mundo. Etnografía de un Circo y su Escuela." Thesis, 2016. http://eprints.rclis.org/39718/1/TESIS_DIE_EdgarSanchezMuci%C3%B1o_2016.pdf.
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The circus is a nomad community that wherever it goes always carries with it everything necessary to present an amazing spectacle: music, colored ligths, popcorn and candies, clowns, magicians, trained animals, and ... a school. This research is an ethnography that describes the spectacular way of being in the world that the circus inhabitants have and how their culture can be reflected in the school that their children attend. The objective is to show that school can also be lived as a show, it means, that it is possible having line in it. This research contributes to the recognition of human diversity, under the argument that if there is no single and valid way of living in the world, then, there is no single and valid way of living the school. In other words, that in the great spectacle of life, the ways of having line are many and all deserve the applause of the public.
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Figueroa, Alcantara Hugo Alberto. "Vivencia y convivencia en la sociedad red." Thesis, 2010. http://eprints.rclis.org/14921/1/Hugo_Figueroa_-_Tesis_-_Vivencia_y_convivencia_en_la_sociedad_red.pdf.
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The research problem that guided this dissertation is: What are the most significant critical elements that affect the experience and coexistence in the network society, and what is the impact that they have on human activities, in the reconfiguration of universe of information, and in our Librarian task?
The objectives are: to investigate in a critical and reflective way about the crucial elements that substantially modify the patterns of experience and coexistence in the network society; to analyze the consequences on human activities in the reconfiguration of the universe of information that have the experience and coexistence models in the network society; to determine the implications of this topic in the library science field and to propose a concrete agenda of research and writing about Librarianship. This research is divided into three chapters: The first chapter is about the analysis of critical elements of the network society. Particular attention is given to internet as a communication emblem of this model of society. To explain the current dynamics of social and cultural interaction in the social environment of this paradigm, is described in detail, the theory of new social movements. It is also considered relevant the careful examination of identities and the individual and collective actions as crucial elements for the characterization of the network society. The second chapter is directed to the study of the culture that gives, share, collaborate, recognize each other and is solidary in the network society, as fundamental components to understanding much of the peculiarities of the experience and coexistence, in this interconnected social environment. In such context, are discussed the reasons why hacker culture is considered representative of the new social movements, also is set out the reasons why hackers enclose social and cultural repercussions beyond the technological sphere. It also discussed two models with very deep impact in the networked society: the paradigm peer to peer (P2P) of sharing in the network and the paradigm wiki of collaborating into the network, standing out above all, not so much the software or tools used, but the philosophy inherent in the method and configuration of new forms of relationships, work, create, study, share works, etc. into this emerging social model. Based on the theoretical, critical reflective elements and about the social and cultural models of participation studied in the first two chapters, the main issue of the third chapter is the experience and coexistence in the network society. In this sense, is looking for the ideal of free society and culture, as well as the tensions and conflicts about it, generated largely by the economic forces of global markets. The cybercultural paradigms are analyzed in relation with alternatives of experience and coexistence in the network society. It is argued how these alternative models may imply a new qualitatively phase in the benefit of human evolution and to promote an intercultural dialogue more developed, laying the foundation for a new model of civilization in the network society. Of course, is also discussed the trouble spots that reflects an uncertain and problematic perspective in these areas. Finally, based on all the issues previously addressed, are made specific and critical proposals in order to develop a research and action agenda for the librarian, but based on the main axis of the issue as complex work of the experience and coexistence in the network society.
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Roncalli, Alessandra. "La Data Envelopment Analisys: una metodologia per la valutazione dell'efficienza." Thesis, 2001. http://eprints.rclis.org/4169/1/tesi_DEA.zip.
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Sachdeva, Darshan Lal. "Use of periodicals in economics, political science and sociology in the libraries of Aligarh, Banaras,Delhi and Jawaharlala Nehru Universities." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/5279.
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Yáñez-Arca, Marcos. "Google Académico en su apogeo. ¿Existen disciplinas todavía fuera de su alcance? Estudio de cobertura en el área de Arquitectura." Thesis, 2014. http://eprints.rclis.org/39135/1/TFM_Marcos_Ya%C3%B1ez.pdf.
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Firstly, an analysis is carried out on the methodology used in more than fifty coverage studies of the scientific search engine Google Academic (GA). To this end, a classification of the different approaches is presented and the main problems of application to the scientific search engine are detected. Based on the conclusions obtained, a methodological proposal is elaborated, the result of which is an enriched version of the work of Neuhaus et al. (2006). Subsequently, the state of the question on the extension and depth of the GA index for the different scientific areas is presented. In the second part of the work, an analysis of coverage in the area of Architecture is carried out based on the proposed methodology. For this purpose, the Avery database is used as a reference. As a result, GA was found to have very low - but increasing - coverage rates for the Architecture area in the three periods studied: 19.53% (1950-1989), 30.99% (1990-2009) and 36.03% (2010-2014). Low quality records were also found, as well as a significant coverage imbalance by country. Causes and future trends are discussed.
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Sousa, Guerreiro João de. "Espacio compartido: modelo de relación biblioteca-comunidad basado en la participación ciudadana y la teoría de los stakeholders." Thesis, 2016. http://eprints.rclis.org/34198/1/Tese_EspacioCompartido.pdf.
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This doctoral thesis aims to propose a community engagement model which can be integrated into an efficient management within librarian institutions. The theoretical grounding of this model is based on citizenship participation, understood as a set of dynamics and techniques which enable citizens to take part in the decision-making processes related to public affairs and services. The research adopts the action research process as methodological approach, taking advantage of its practical elements in order to identify problems and its ongoing and cyclical nature to solve them.
The model consists of three main stages. The first one is the identification of different and relevant social groups directly linked to the public library. Given the fact that it is not feasible to establish relationships with the whole community and based on the Stakeholders theory, the model provides the library’s staff with simple guidelines in order to undertake this task. Secondly, the model adopts the focus group as the interaction technique which involves meetings among seven to ten individuals who have some knowledge of or experience with the topic, led by a moderator who guides participants through a series of questions. Finally it is proposed a simple method for collecting and analyzing data. Each of these stages entails a series of tasks such as criteria for the selection of the groups, design of the topics and questions under discussion and standards to elaborate the final report.
The model therefore pursues a threefold objective of 1) Collecting information in order to adopt strategic decisions, 2) Creating participatory dynamics with various groups within the community and 3) Strengthening and consolidating the relationship established with these groups.
A pilot test was subsequently conducted in the Public Library of Salamanca for validating the applicability of the model. This experience determined the capability of the model to collect the views and opinions of the main social agents in the community and set strategic objectives of the library grounded on these points of view. It also proved to be an effective way to promote institutional change, transforming a library focused on the service offer into a “net library” in which its values and strategic goals are defined by the connection with the community.
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Kangalov, Mihail Borissov. "Enseñanza de las danzas deportivas con Método Vaganova y Danzas de Carácter. Un estudio bibliométrico y cualitativo." Thesis, 2019. http://eprints.rclis.org/39253/1/Tesis_final_PhD_Mihail_Kangalov_UACH_2019.pdf.
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This research project has studied the publications related to the educational process of the teaching of Dance Sport, a sport with a broad reach due to its competitive, artistic, and social character. In this exploration there were found various articles and monographs, in which there were analized various aspects of the work of instructors, choreographers, and sport practitioners in this area. For this purpose, it was analized a vast amount of publications in four languages: Spanish, English, Russian, and Bulgarian.
The main objective of this thesis was: to analyze to what extent it might be improved the teaching of Dance Sport at a competitive level through the merging of the Vaganova Method and the technique of Character Dances through the bibliometric and hermeneutic analysis of documents. The specific objectives were: 1. To analyze the impact of Vaganova Method and Character Dances in the teaching of Dance Sport. 2. To evaluate the effectivity of the bibliometric method as a foundation for this analysis. 3. To contrast the bibliometric method with the hermeneutic analysis of documents to support such analysis of such theoretical foundation. 4. To evaluate the possible implications of such analysis for the creation of a specific methodology to improve the body formation and competitive repertoire in Dance Sport.
The variables employed in this project as thesauri descriptors were: 1. Dance sport. 2. Character dance. 3. Vaganova method, and 4. Teaching. There were made searches of documents in the Google Scholar Citation Scientific Index, and analyzed bibliometrically and hermeneutically.
The analyzed data did not show a clear evidence of the participation of the Vaganova method and the technique of Character dance in the formation process in the teaching of Character dances, or of any other methodology, used
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according with the different modes, or according with the ages and physical-body and cognitive conditions of sport practitioners.
Keywords: Dance Sport; Character dances; Vaganova method; teaching; bibliometry.