College of Information Studies: Recent submissions
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“I run the world’s largest historical outreach project and it’s on a cesspool of a website.” Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians
(2020)Online communities provide important functions in their participants’ lives, from providing spaces to discuss topics of interest to supporting the development of close, personal relationships. Volunteer moderators play key ... -
CONTRADICTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN MOBILE CARE MANAGEMENT (“mCare”): AN OBSERVATIONAL ANALYTIC COHORT STUDY
(2019)Chronic diseases such as diabetes are among the most widespread, expensive, and preventable of all health problems, accounting for approximately 86 percent of the United States’ $2.7 trillion annual health care expenditures. ... -
Utilizing University Archives to Teach Students the Complexities of Neutrality
(2019-12)Archival collections provide the historical and cultural context to help students understand the development and impact of various social movement movements of the 20th and 21st century. In this study we examine the process ... -
Local Information Landscapes: Theory, Measures, and Evidence
(2019)To understand issues about information accessibility within communities, research studies have examined human, social, and technical factors by taking a socio-technical view. While this view provides a profound understanding ... -
Enhancing Decision-making in Smart and Connected Communities with Digital Traces
(2019)The ubiquitous use of information communication technologies (ICTs) enables generation of digital traces associated with human behaviors at unprecedented breadth, depth, and scale. Large-scale digital traces provide the ...