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LIS590ID Information DynamicsDescription: 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 |
HEADLINESTwelve Students Honored with Grants GSLIS Students Named Diversity Scholars Guide Highlights Best Gift Books for Youth For Improving Early Literacy, Reading Comics is No Child's Play UPCOMING EVENTSBrownbag discussion about community archiving (Dec 3) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Fair 2009 (Dec 9) Faculty Meeting (Dec 9) Ian Brooks: Designing a Culturally Sensitive Interface for an Endemic Disease Cyberenvironment (Dec 16) 2009 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award Reception (Jan 16) iConference 2010 (Feb 3 - Feb 6) Faculty Meeting (Feb 10) Faculty Meeting (Mar 3) |