Call for Chapters: Online Credibility and Digital Ethos - Evaluating Computer-Mediated Communication
igi-global.comProposals Submission Deadline: October 15, 2011
With the near ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, acquiring and publishing online information has never been easier; however, increased access to consuming and producing digital information raises new challenges to establishing and evaluating online credibility. These challenges are important because they affect a broad range of meaning-making, both inside and outside of academia. For example, the events of the Arab Spring show that in the absence of what were traditionally seen as relatively reliable information sources, “unofficial” online sources deemed credible by a wide range of actors played a key role in successful uprisings.
Objective of the Book
Offering chapters written by scholars from across the disciplines and from different countries, this book will provide general approaches to evaluating the credibility of digital sources, specific advice for popular websites, and techniques useful for a wide variety of digital genres.
Target Audience
This book would be useful for a variety of academic disciplines, as students continue to utilize online sources in their research. Information literacy specialists would find useful the chapters which focus on particular types of popular sources like Wikipedia, Facebook, and iReports). Journalists and educators in the field of Mass Communication and Library Sciences would find the book useful in establishing protocols for approaching a wide variety of sources. Web designers and writers could use this book to establish a more credible online presence. However, we feel the target audience would be instructors of introductory level courses which involve research. Graduate students and academics could utilize certain chapters to establish a method for determining the credibility of a source they use for research purposes.
Recommended Topics
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- General approaches to evaluating online credibility (typos/grammar, design/usability, advertisements, urls, links, contact info, search engine listing, use of stock photos, use of phone/address, date of publication, author, expertise, overall strategies, online universities)
- Establishing and evaluating credibility with popular websites: (Ebay, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, Second life)
- Establishing and evaluating credibility in a variety of digital genres: (Blogs, travel websites, online journals, restaurant reviews, emails, product reviews, online games, websites, discussion lists, iReports/news, app ratings, freeware ratings, avatars)
Editors: Shawn Apostel and Moe Folk
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Last Sunday, I had the opporunity to attend L.A. Zine Fest at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Anyone who knows me knows that I will always shell out for an awesome zine. I have a little corner in my room that I’m always adding to. This year, amongst the chaos, I found a little oasis of pink awesomenes known as the Library Sciences booth… (read more)
New Book: Digital Media - Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World
Many chapters of this book are available on Google Books.
About the book
There has been an explosion in the creation and use of digital media over the past quarter century and in particular over the past decade. As the varieties of digital media multiply, scholars are beginning to examine its origins, organization, and preservation, which present new challenges compared to the organization and preservation of traditional media such as books, papers, films, photographs, music scores, and works of art.
In order to examine from multiple perspectives issues related to history, preservation, and ontology of digital media, editors of this volume organized an invitation-only workshop on digital media. The participants were carefully chosen to represent a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, ranging from humanities to information studies to technology to history to communication theory to fine arts.
The book is organized in four parts, each representing a different perspective on digital media: preservation, interaction, organization, and history. The preservation section considers the problems of archiving digital media for long-term preservation. Many digital objects are readily copied but are fragile and not designed for preservation, and this nature of digital objects provides both challenges and opportunities for adapting archival practice. The remaining sections look at the interaction between technological changes and cultural practices, the organization of digital media, and the history of digital media and how technology has changed over time. The wealth of varied perspectives collected together in this volume provides new light on the topic of digital media.
About the Authors
William Aspray is professor of Information Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-editor of many books, including The Internet and American Business (2008), Everyday Information (2011), and Creating Privacy (Scarecrow, 2011).
Megan A. Winget is assistant professor, School of Information, at the University of Texas at Austin.
long beach's indie publishers find outlet at l.a. zine fest
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Today I assembled the best library children’s room holiday display of all time. Several books on the winter solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa were prettily arranged on their pedestal , and festooned with hand cut snowflakes. The kids loved it!
I can spend hours on dizzying but well executed Dialog searches for my MLIS homework. I get a huge sense of accomplishment out of that. However, this display—that’s what Library Sciences is all about, Charlie Brown.
Attention:
I need some insight from people who live in or have lived in Seattle, WA.
Tell me the basics: cost of living, social events, the culture, etc.
I wish to apply to the University of Washington for their Library and Information Sciences program and just need some insight before I start dreaming too big.
Also, anyone who is a librarian, in the process of becoming a librarian/curator of sorts, etc.
Someone just please talk to me. Tell me stories of goodness and wonder!
