College of Information Studies: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
SIMULATING REALITY: TRAINING CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO JUDGE STREAM HABITATS IN MULTISENSORY VIRTUAL REALITY
(2019)Citizen science is a form of crowdsourcing that allows volunteers to participate in scientific data collection and analysis. Many citizen scientists are engaged and motivated by science-based learning and discovery, but ... -
Archives in the Attic: Exile, Activism, and Memory in the Washington Committee for Human Rights in Argentina
(2019)Spurred by the human rights violations committed by the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), exiled Argentines in Washington, D.C. formed the Washington Committee for Human Rights in Argentina (WCHRA) to facilitate the ... -
TWO STRIKES AND YOU’RE OUT: THE CONVERGENCE OF COLD WAR POLITICS, LABOR, AND ETHNIC TENSIONS IN THE JULY 1946 STRIKES AT KIRKUK AND ABADAN
(2019)This thesis explores the convergence of Cold War politics, labor issues, and ethnic conflict on the local scale during the labor strikes which occurred in July 1946 at the oil refineries in Kirkuk, Iraq and Abadan, Iran. ...