The behaviour of the researcher of the future (the ‘Google generation’)

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
University College London ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Digital Footprints

This paper describes and evaluates the information-seeking behaviour of young people in the virtual environment. Data are drawn from a JISC/BL funded project on the future scholar and a seven-year study of the virtual scholar conducted by CIBER at University College London. Hundreds of thousands of young people, mainly students, from all over the globe, are covered in the log analyses. On the basis of these data, the characteristics of their ‘digital footprints’ are drawn, demonstrating the huge paradigm shift that has occurred in the information seeking of young scholars. The results are surprising, disturbing and challenging and the author concludes with a discussion of how information professionals and the arts and humanities community in general might best meet young people’s information needs.

Information Seeking Behavior of Users and Strategies to Overcome the Challenges in the Current Era

2013 ◽  
pp. 284-288
Author(s):  
A. Dakshayani ◽  
S. Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
User Community ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Way

Due to the continuous research and development activities taking place in almost all the disciplines, information overload and information explosion has occurred, which in turn poses a challenge to the user community to keep up with the knowledge in their discipline. The dynamic nature of information has forced the users to change the way of seeking information. Hence, there is an immediate need for the information professionals to update the services and facilities of the library. He/she should act as a ultimate search engine and satisfy the information needs of the users. This chapter highlights the changing approach to information by the user community in the present scenario and also provides the solutions to information professionals to tackle the information expectations of the users. This chapter has been written based on the observation of library users and the way they seek information for their business requirements and research and development activities.

Online Information Retrieval Systems Trending From Evolutionary to Revolutionary Approach

2019 ◽  
pp. 303-317
Author(s):  
Zahid Ashraf Wani ◽  
Huma Shafiq
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Diverse Species ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The Web

Nowadays, we all rely on cyberspace for our information needs. We make use of different types of search tools. Some of them have specialization in a specific format or two, while few can crawl a good portion of the web irrespective of formats. Therefore, it is very imperative for information professionals to have thorough understandings of these tools. As such, the chapter is an endeavor to delve deep and highlight various trends in online information retrieval from primitive to modern ones. The chapter also made an effort to envisage the future requirements and expectation keeping in view the ever-increasing dependence on diverse species of information retrieval tools.

Forerunners of the Romans

Antiquity ◽  
1928 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Randall-MacIver
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Complete Inversion

The standard Roman histories, especially when written by authors who have an undisguised contempt for archaeology, give very little idea of the civilization and development of Italy before the later days of the Republic. They are histories of Rome but not of Italy. And so the reader is subconsciously led to suppose that the Romans were the most important and the most advanced people on the peninsula, who gradually extended the benefits of their superior civilization over a series of more or less barbarous neighbours. This is a complete inversion of the real facts. The Romans of the Republic were a rather backward people, and it was hardly before the second century B.C. that they could begin to rank as the equals of the Italian provincials in general refinement and culture. Incessantly occupied with the wars which were essential to their very existence, the Romans had no leisure, even if they possessed the inclination, to cultivate the arts and humanities. But, while the future head of the world was struggling for bare life, a rich Italian civilization had been born and developed in the independent territories which had not yet fallen under her sway. Before ever they came under the organizing and levelling domination of the central capital, Etruria, Venetia, Lombardy and Picenum had each evolved its own distinct and very valuable local culture; while the whole south from Naples to Brindisi had been civilized by Corinthian and Ionic influence. Rome when she conquered and annexed these territories in due sequence fell heir to a fully finished product. Italy had been created, but not by Rome; the task that fell to the Romans was much more suited to their peculiar abilities—they had to organize and administer the country.

Arts Partnerships Are Bridging Disparities

2017 ◽  
pp. 114-126
Author(s):  
Jennifer DiFiglia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Opportunity Gap ◽  
Disadvantaged Youth ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Industry Partnerships ◽  
The Future ◽  
Arts Partnerships ◽  
Tools And Techniques

Government, non-profit and industry partnerships are giving disadvantaged youth access to successful careers in the Arts. Although the trend has been toward an ever growing “opportunity gap” between children from low socio-economic communities and their wealthier peers, cross-sector arts education partnerships are bridging disparities in access to the creative professions. Currently, the lack of opportunity for young people from poverty disproportionately affects their career prospects in the Arts, where consistent exposure to the tools and techniques of the creative disciplines is necessary in order to guide students toward college and/or careers in these growing fields. Despite a burgeoning creative economy, remarkably little progress has been made to diversify the workforce in this sector. Collectively, we've underestimated how creating opportunities for young people is economically valuable to government, non-profit and industry. A fundamentally different framework is needed that puts a proper valuation on the future of our youth.

The Academic Book of the Future

LOGOS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Samantha Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Research Council ◽  
British Library ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Le Morte Darthur ◽  
Future Project

This paper explores the contexts in which the academic books of the future in the arts and humanities (A&H) are being shaped, with the aim of demonstrating how crucial it is that the communities of practice that produce those books continue to work together to build better bridges of understanding and collaboration. There is particular reference to the Arts and Humanities Research Council/ British Library Academic Book of the Future Project (2014–2017) and to a case study of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur.

scholarly journals Critical, agentic and trans-media: Frameworks and findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjana Das ◽  
Brita Ytre-Arne
Keyword(s):  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Analysis Task ◽  
The Future

We write this article presenting frameworks and findings from an international network on audience research, as we stand 75 years from Herta Herzog’s classic investigation of radio listeners, published in Lazarsfeld and Stanton’s 1944 war edition of Radio Research. The article aims to contribute to and advance a rich strand of self-reflexive stock-taking and sorting of future research priorities within the transforming field of audience analysis, by drawing on the collective efforts of CEDAR – Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research – a 14-country network (2015–2018) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom, which conducted a foresight analysis exercise on developing current trends and future scenarios for audiences and audience research in the year 2030. First, we wish to present the blueprint of what we did and how we did it – by discussing the questions, contexts and frameworks for our project. We hope this is useful for anyone considering a foresight analysis task, an approach we present as an innovative and rigorous tool for assessing and understanding the future of a field. Second, we present findings from our analysis of pivotal transformations in the field and the future scenarios we constructed for audiences, as media technologies rapidly change with the arrival of the Internet of Things and changes on many levels occur in audience practices. These findings not only make sense of a transformative decade that we have just lived through but they present possibilities for the future, outlining areas for individual and collective intellectual commitment.

scholarly journals Creative Expression and Contemporary Arts Making Among Young Cambodians

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Rogers ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Traditional Performance

This project analysed the creative practices and concerns of young adult artists (18-35 years old) in contemporary Cambodia. It examined the extent to which the arts are being used to open up new ways of enacting Cambodian identity that encompass, but also move beyond, a preoccupation with the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979). Existing research has focused on how the recuperation and revival of traditional performance is linked to the post-genocidal reconstruction of the nation. In contrast, this research examines if, and how, young artists are moving beyond the revival process to create works that speak to a young Cambodian population.The research used NGO Cambodian Living Arts’ 2020 Cultural Season of performances, workshops, and talks as a case study through which to examine key concerns of young Cambodian artists, trace how these affected their creative process, and analyse how the resulting works were received among audiences. It was funded through the AHRC GCRF Network Plus Grant ‘Changing the Story’ which uses arts and humanities approaches to ‘build inclusive societies with, and for, young people in post-conflict settings.

The Future of the Arts in Education? Alternative Strategies

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Robert Long
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Arts In Education ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Sustained Responses

Much speculation exists as to the prospect Music and the Performing Arts face in the wake of the 1988 Education Act. Research shows that interaction and fusion, which exist between Music and the Performing Arts, intensify expressive character for young people, and generate more powerful and sustained responses, in comparison with single art forms.Results of experiments show the value of fused artefacts with significant implications for future Arts education, as regards both making and appraising.

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