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Widespread participation in collaborative writing and public discourse on blogs, news sites, Wikipedia and other online information sources is creating a new class of information literacy skills. In a series of qualitative studies, I examined high school students’ information assessment practices as they helped build a collaborative online information source. I identified two types of strategies for...
We introduce a novel way to search and recommend mobile applications namely, activity-based app search. Keywords used in activity-based app search are terms such as “drinking coffee”, “during a flight”, “cooking with friends”, “driving”. We define context as What, Where, When and Whom. The results returned by activity-based app search are apps that can be used while performing the activity specified...
This panel will discuss the current state of research and present new work examining teens and social media. Panelists will share work that approaches this area in new ways, including an examination of question asking practices on social media, message sharing practices on Facebook, and teen social media and information uses during game design work. The panel will conclude with an interactive discussion...
Many U.S. teens spend hours each day communicating with friends via social technologies like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Flickr. To develop a better understanding of the state of library support of teens' social technology practices, we are conducting a national survey of a representative sample of 750 public and 750 school libraries in the United States about their current policies and social...
An ambitious TMSP education program which recognizes that learners fall into multiple categories, will facilitate training people to participate in the complex interplay between social participation and technical systems.
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