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LIS590ID Information Dynamics

Description: All information changes. New terms, structures, content, use-contexts, copying/proliferation, links, and re-interpretation all mean information is dynamic in location, format, uses, meanings, and effects. This course introduces models and strategies for understanding, managing, and exploiting information dynamics, both large-scale and micro. Topics include technical, social, modeling, analysis, and empirical foundations; rate and impact metrics; the Information Dynamics meta-model; social-analysis, selectionist, self-organizing, population dynamics, and game-based approaches; growth and change in information networks; information flows; semiotic and opinion dynamics; preservation (stabilization) dynamics; Applications in indexes, metadata, "tagging", "social software," web ranking, collaborative problem solving/learning, bioinformatics, etc. Activities include reading, analysis, active modeling, and empirical case studies. Audience: students wanting strong foundations for technical or policy activities involving dynamic organizational-to-global scale information environments.
Credit Hours: 2 or 4 GR hours
Note: 2 or 4 hours. Be sure to enroll in your desired amount of credit.

Schedule: T: 9:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Location: 131 LISB
Instructor: Gasser

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