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- Reynolds, Rebecca, et al.
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Inaugural issue perspectives on Information and Learning Sciences as an integral scholarly Nexus
- 2019
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Ingår i: Information and Learning Science (ILS). - 2398-5348 .- 2398-5356. ; 120:1/2, s. 2-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose Many of today’s information and technology systems and environments facilitate inquiry, learning, consciousness-raising and knowledge-building. Such platforms include e-learning systems which have learning, education and/or training as explicit goals or objectives. They also include search engines, social media platforms, video-sharing platforms, and knowledge sharing environments deployed for work, leisure, inquiry, and personal and professional productivity. The new journal, Information and Learning Sciences, aims to advance our understanding of human inquiry, learning and knowledge-building across such information, e-learning, and socio-technical system contexts.Design/methodology/approach This article introduces the journal at its launch under new editorship in January, 2019. The article, authored by the journal co-editors and all associate editors, explores the lineage of scholarly undertakings that have contributed to the journal's new scope and mission, which includes past and ongoing scholarship in the following arenas: Digital Youth, Constructionism, Mutually Constitutive Ties in Information and Learning Sciences, and Searching-as-Learning.Findings The article offers examples of ways in which the two fields stand to enrich each other towards a greater holistic advancement of scholarship. The article also summarizes the inaugural special issue contents from the following contributors: Caroline Haythornthwaite; Krista Glazewski and Cindy Hmelo-Silver; Stephanie Teasley; Gary Marchionini; Caroline R. Pitt; Adam Bell, Rose Strickman and Katie Davis; Denise Agosto; Nicole Cooke; and Victor Lee.Originality/value The article, this special issue, and the journal in full, are among the first formal and ongoing publication outlets to deliberately draw together and facilitate cross-disciplinary scholarship at this integral nexus. We enthusiastically and warmly invite continued engagement along these lines in the journal’s pages, and also welcome related, and wholly contrary points of view, and points of departure that may build upon or debate some of the themes we raise in the introduction and special issue contents.
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- Andersson, Cecilia
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Smartphones and online search : shifting frames in the everyday life of young people
- 2022
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Ingår i: Information and Learning Science. - 2398-5348. ; 123:7/8, s. 351-370
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of smartphones among young people in everyday life, focusing on the activity of online search. This paper addresses the following research questions: What framings of the smartphone can be identified in the way that young people use, and describe, smartphones? What is the role of online search within these framings? By elucidating framings of the smartphone, this paper also seeks to discuss why and how smartphone use becomes contested in various contexts and situations. Design/methodology/approach: The material has been produced through ethnographic fieldwork. Focus groups and observations have been carried out with teenagers, age 13–16 years, in three schools in Sweden. In total, 39 pupils participated in the focus groups. Interviews, classroom observations and go-alongs have also been performed. Findings: In this study, three framings of the smartphone are identified: the entertainment framing, the easy-access framing and the challenging co-presence framing. The framings highlight the way that both the smartphone and online search is viewed, and carried out, in various situations. The smartphone is primarily viewed as a tool for entertainment, by adults and young people alike, yet the findings illustrate that the smartphone is used for more activates than what is immediately apparent. Research limitations/implications: This study contributes to the field interested in bridging the gap between in-school teachings of information literacies and out-of-school activities by showing how online search happens in various situations. Also, to the field concerned with people’s use of general web search engines in everyday life. Originality/value: This paper explores the relation between online search and smartphones, a topic which has not been in focus in previous research. The topics of online search and smartphone use have primarily been researched separately but are here researched in conjunction.
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- Smedley, Jo, 1960-
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Enhancing Information Impact : how do we make the most of our information senses?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Information and Learning Sciences. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 2398-5348 .- 1758-6909. ; 119:3/4, s. 142-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: This paper discusses the importance of effectively using senses in sharing information and managing the opportunities they individually and collaboratively offer.Design/methodology/approach: The paper considers how information is best portrayed by each sense, individually and collaboratively.Findings: How information takes account of senses to ensure that information engagement is maximised through its entertainment and education value.Research limitations/implications: As the value and importance of information continues to grow, so will the urgency of information engagement and ensuring that its portrayal is appropriate, effective and efficient through a variety of sensory approaches – whether individual or collaborative.Practical implications: One sensory size does not fit all. It is important that the dimensions and flexibility of information are reflected to ensure that it can adapt to suit various audiences. These flexible approaches will ensure that learner engagement is maximised.Social implications: All information methods are of equal value. By ensuring that learners are able to access the information method that is most appropriate to them, then learning potential can be maximised. There is a growing urgency to move away from a status quo information approach and thereby enhance variety and enable potential.Originality/value: Information is power. Each person is unique. How they learn combines these two qualities. A flexible approach to information engagement will encourage and enable information and learning sharing to maximise achievement and contribute to ongoing information entrepreneurship, resilience and sustainability. © 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited.
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- Smedley, Jo, 1960-
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Information innovation : it's all about people
- 2017
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Ingår i: Information and Learning Sciences. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 2398-5348 .- 1758-6909. ; 118:11/12, s. 669-671
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: This paper discusses the importance of effectively engaging people in sharing information and managing its implementation across organisations as a key part of successful change initiatives.Design/methodology/approach: Consideration why information is important to an organisation and how people and space contribute to its current and future effective management.Findings: How flexibility of working practices and the creative management of physical and virtual space empowers and enables change in innovating new working practices.Research limitations/implications: How creative thinking contributes to flexibility and streamlining of established practices to achieve effective information management. There is no “final answer” – it is an ongoing iterative process which depends on people engagement for continued success.Practical implications: Within a working environment of ongoing change, it is important that the value of engaging people in organisational change is embedded as a key part of assuring continuing successful outcomes.Social implications: The methods of engaging people in successful change need to be carefully considered to maximise overall outcomes reflecting a “hearts and mind” perspective. Approaches used are often individual to different groups within wider communities. All contribute to achieving effective change outcomes across a whole organisation.Originality/value: Today’s information age is ever changing. People are an organisations best asset. An effective information management system enables a flexible, agile and response to access data, develop information and progress knowledge to build ongoing sustainability. © 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited.
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