... Multimodal disinformation Social media Verification cues Credibility assessment Information studies Communication Individual behavior Ministry of Education – Singapore MOE-T2EP40122-0004 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001459 Funding: This research was funded by the Ministry...

.... Findings This study finds that documentation was central to FORTRAN's emergence as the first widely adopted high-level programming language. Each genre addressed distinct audiences and fulfilled specific communicative functions. These documents exercised collective document agency by enabling three...

...Jack Andersen Purpose The purpose is to offer a discussion of how we can conceive of the organization of knowledge in digital culture and its changing nature. The article proposes to view of it as both a decentered (communicative) and centered (analytical gaze). Design/methodology/approach...

... professional obligations in potentially documenting and archiving the critical differences in semiosis that extend beyond purely human knowledge. Semiotics Information science Biology Language Communication Epistemology The role of boundaries in differentiating among academic disciplines...

... for journalists and professionals who engage in fact-checking and for others who have a particular interest in fact-checking, e.g. librarians and educators engaged in media and information literacy projects. Newspapers Perception Language Communication Attitudes Information society Amalia...

... in the information landscape of news journalism. Amalia Juneström can be contacted at: amalia.junestrom@abm.uu.se 10 09 2018 29 01 2019 31 01 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Newspapers Communication Behaviour...

... the information practices of Net-generation writers and makers from those of their older counterparts and then examined the contextual factors associated with the shared meanings in each community of practice, by interviewing a total of 14 participants, 7 writers and 7 makers, and qualitatively analyzed...

... 05 2018 05 09 2018 06 09 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Health communication is often understood as one-way information transmission from health authorities to patients (Johnson and Case, 2012). However...

...Deborah Maron; Melanie Feinberg This study contributes to our understanding of how metadata standards are understood and used in practice. The misalignment between Omeka’s position and the goals of the Dublin Core community suggests that Omeka, and some portion of its users, do not value...

.../approach The examinations are conducted within a Gricean framework in order to account for the communicative aspects of information, misinformation, and disinformation as well as the detection enterprise. Findings While there often is an exclusive focus on truth and falsity as that which distinguish...

...Anna Reetta Suorsa An ethnographic approach is applied to investigate knowledge-creating interaction in a working community. The triangulated data consist of ethnographic observations and video recordings of the community’s gatherings, its members’ interviews and produced documents...

... for further investigations into how images work as documents in scientific contexts. Classification History Communication Documentation Documents Audiovisual media Ulrika Kjellman can be contacted at: ulrika.kjellman@abm.uu.se 24 09 2015 04 03 2016 05 03 2016 ©...

... and political theory. The public sphere is a concept often used to describe communication across on a macro-level scale. Habermas (1996) uses the term to describe broad flows and circulation of power from societal peripheries to decision-making cores. In fact, the public sphere is not a monolithic whole...

... Publishing Limited 2015 Internet Information Communication Empirical studies on online discussion forums provide a variety of findings demonstrating how such arenas are used in communication, information seeking and information sharing in diverse contexts, for example, academic research...

...Andrew Robson; Lyn Robinson Purpose – This study investigated the application in the field of healthcare of a recently developed model of information seeking and communication. The purpose of this paper is to test the model’s validity and to identify insights that it may provide. Design...

...Christine Urquhart; Alexander H. Urquhart Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to criticise the paper by Jennie A. Abrahamson and Victoria L. Rubin (2012) “Discourse structure differences in lay and professional health communication”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 68 No. 6, pp. 826...

... tools. Amongst these tools were the means to communicate, which afforded the evolution of social boundaries. Originality/value – This is a new perspective on a topic of growing interest in information science and demonstrates further the significance of information as a factor in the shaping...

... active or influential authors in Chinese IS? RQ2. Which academic communities benefit from Chinese IS research? RQ3. What are the active and influential patterns of Chinese IS research? RQ4. What are the most active and influential subjects in Chinese IS research...

...Torkild Thellefsen; Bent Sørensen; Martin Thellefsen Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine and compare Nicholas Belkin's information concept and his concept of communication with the authors' semeiotic inspired communication model – the Dynacom. Design/methodology/approach...

... for other communicative purposes including sharing ideas, paying tributes, social networking, and question answering. This study seeks to examine and categorise the types of comments created by YouTube users to highlight the various ways in which this interactive feature has been employed as a means...