scholarly journals Entre hiperinformação e desinformação: o “fio de ariadne” para a preservação da informação na web | Between hyperinformation and disinformation: the "ariadne’s wire" for the preservation of information on the web

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Da Costa Maia Lopes ◽  
Arthur Coelho Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Critical Information ◽  
Web Space ◽  
Political Groups ◽  
The Web

RESUMO No cenário da era digital, partimos de uma reflexão sobre os desafios à preservação da informação na web diante da hiperinformação que trafega pela rede, com destaque para os caminhos percorridos entre informação e desinformação.  Pretendemos abordar   aspectos da memória no espaço da web e tomar a atual circulação de fake news como exemplo que ilustra a dialética da liberdade sociotécnica contemporânea. Em tal contexto, destacamos a relevância dos estudos de “competência crítica em informação” empreendidos por pesquisadores da ciência da informação, que auxiliam a compreender como as informações veiculadas na internet atendem a propósitos específicos de determinados agentes e grupos políticos, reforçando elementos de poder intrínsecos aos regimes de informação.Palavras-chave: Hiperinformação; Memória; Preservação; Competência Crítica em Informação; Era Digital.ABSTRACT In the scenario of the digital age, we start from a reflection on the challenges to the preservation of information on the web in view of the hyperinformation that travels through the network, highlighting the paths traveled between information and disinformation. We intend to address aspects of memory in the web space and take the current fake news circulation as an example that illustrates the dialectics of contemporary sociotechnical freedom. In this context, we highlight the relevance of studies of "critical information literacy" undertaken by Information Science researchers, which help to understand how the information transmitted on the Internet serves the specific purposes of certain agents and political groups, reinforcing intrinsic power elements of information regimes.Keywords: Hyperinformation; Memory; Preservation; Critical Information Literacy; Digital Age.

Ciência da Informação e Humanidades Digitais

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO CARLOS PALETTA
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

This work aims to presents partial results on the research project conducted at the Observatory of the Labor Market in Information and Documentation, School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo on Information Science and Digital Humanities. Discusses Digital Humanities and informational literacy. Highlights the evolution of the Web, the digital library and its connections with Digital Humanities. Reflects on the challenges of the Digital Humanities transdisciplinarity and its connections with the Information Science. This is an exploratory study, mainly due to the current and emergence of the theme and the incipient bibliography existing both in Brazil and abroad.Keywords: Digital Humanities; Information Science; Transcisciplinrity; Information Literacy; Web of Data; Digital Age.

scholarly journals It Takes a Village to Combat a Fake News Army: Wikipedia’s Community and Policies for Information Literacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512093730
Author(s):  
Zachary J. McDowell ◽  
Matthew A. Vetter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Critical Information ◽  
New Strategies

The fake news crisis points to a complex set of circumstances in which new media ecologies struggle to address challenges related to authenticity, rhetorical manipulation and disinformation, and the inability of traditional educational models to adequately teach toward critical information literacy. While social media sites such as Facebook acknowledge the culpability of their platforms in spreading fake news, and create new strategies for addressing this problem, such measures are woefully inadequate. Wikipedia, nearing its 20th year, however, has developed numerous practices and policies to ensure information validity and verifiability. This article explores the connection between participation in the Wikipedia community, the development of critical information literacies, and the ability to navigate the current new media landscape. Analysis and review of Wikipedia’s community policies and the procedures resulting from these policies demonstrate the encyclopedia’s unique capacity to protect against problematic information. We ultimately argue that Wikipedia has become and remains one of the few places on the internet dedicated to combating fake news, and make recommendations on how to leverage Wikipedia practices and policies for information validation outside of the encyclopedia.

Student Experiences with Digital Citizenship: A Comparative Cultural Study

Libri ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Kammer ◽  
Kodjo Atiso ◽  
Edward Mensah Borteye
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Ethical Aspects

Abstract This comparative cultural study examines differences in digital citizenship between undergraduate information literacy students at two different, but similar, universities across the globe from each other. Under the notion that the internet and prevalence of mobile devices allow students to participate online as digital citizens in ways that were impossible before, we use mixed methods to compare the attitudes and experiences of undergraduate students at a university in the midwestern United States (U.S.), with a university on the southwestern coast of Ghana. We also examine the policies related to technology use at these schools. The findings indicate that Ghanaian students had higher levels of digital citizenship. Other findings suggest that network issues are a problem for students in both schools, especially for Ghana, and ethical aspects of internet use, like cyberbullying, hacking, and fake news, deter students from participating online as much as they would like.

Using NLP for Fact Checking: A Survey

Designs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Eric Lazarski ◽  
Mahmood Al-Khassaweneh ◽  
Cynthia Howard
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The Many ◽  
Human Powered ◽  
The Web

In recent years, disinformation and “fake news” have been spreading throughout the internet at rates never seen before. This has created the need for fact-checking organizations, groups that seek out claims and comment on their veracity, to spawn worldwide to stem the tide of misinformation. However, even with the many human-powered fact-checking organizations that are currently in operation, disinformation continues to run rampant throughout the Web, and the existing organizations are unable to keep up. This paper discusses in detail recent advances in computer science to use natural language processing to automate fact checking. It follows the entire process of automated fact checking using natural language processing, from detecting claims to fact checking to outputting results. In summary, automated fact checking works well in some cases, though generalized fact checking still needs improvement prior to widespread use.

scholarly journals Law in Context for the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Pompeu Casanovas ◽  
Jianfu Chen ◽  
David Wishart
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
The Web

We introduce both the new inception of Law in Context - A Socio-legal Journal and the continuing issue of LiC 36 (1). The editorial provides a brief historical account of the Journal since its inception in the early 1980s, in the context of the evolution of the Law & Society movement. It also describes the changes produced in the digital age by the emergence of the Web of Data, Big Data, and the Internet of Things. The convergence between Law & Society and Artificial Intelligence & Law is also discussed. Finally, we introduce briefly the articles included in this issue.          

scholarly journals Health Information behaviour during COVID-19 outbreak among Egyptian library and information science undergraduate students

2020 ◽  
pp. 026666692097618
Author(s):  
Ahmed Shehata
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Information Behaviour ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Information Literacy Skills

Health information shared on the Internet has the potential to improve people’s quality of life. However, the level of health information literacy and informational skills determines the individuals’ ability to obtain credible health information useful for them. This study investigates the Egyptian LIS undergraduates’ health information behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study has adopted a quantitative approach using a questionnaire to explore library and information science undergraduates’ health information behaviour. A sample of 161 students answered a questionnaire. The data were analysed using SPSS software. The study results show that official health websites, social media, and family and friends are the primary sources for health information for the participants. The findings also revealed that the sample has adequate health information skills, though many of the participants still need to raise their information literacy skills. Information credibility and personal beliefs were found to affect the participants’ decision to share health information on the Internet. One of the limitations of the study is that the sample selected in this study was LIS students who are trained to find reliable information as part of their education. Findings may be different for the “average” student. Furthermore, the questionnaire was distributed in one university, which means that the results cannot be generalised in other LIS departments using different courses. Therefore, more studies need to be conducted in other LIS departments with different course plans as they may produce different results. This study explores the health information behaviour of LIS undergraduates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study results may help develop the course plan in many LIS departments in Egypt and the Middle East, which would help improve the students’ health information literacy.

THE INTERNET IN A CIVIL SERVANT`S LIFE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Telizhenko ◽  
◽  
Dmytro Murach ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Space ◽  
The Web

The article is dedicated to the analysis of negative aspects of the use of social media in civil service and the substantiation of the necessity of legal regulation of civil servants’ conduct in the web space. It is mentioned that the Internet virtual space has become another new place of life of a contemporary human and a civil servant as well. Like in physical and social space, a human is able to act, be active, influence the situation and other people while equally depending on their reverse influence. This requires greater responsibility from civil servants for the content of their posts and the information shared by them on social media as well as understanding that contacts established there shall still obey the law and the rules of virtual life. Emphasis is put upon the necessity of civil servants’ considering of the specific nature of social media that can constitute certain dangers. It becomes possible to invade their professional and private life, their personal data; they may be blackmailed, put under political pressure and so forth. Focus is placed on the absence of proper regulation of civil servants’ ethical conduct in the web space by the state. At the same time, the article shows international experience in the matter of regulation of a civil servant’s socialization in the web space. The authors examine foreign legislative acts regulating the particular question of the interaction of a civil servant’s real and virtual life. This leads to the conclusion about the advisability of the introduction of special recommendations or an ethical code which would regulate the rules of conducting civil servants’ web life. It is also emphasized that the implementation of the corresponding rules of British legislation into Ukraine would become a significant step to resolving civil servants’ web problems.

Uploading and Testing Your Web Portfolio Site

2011 ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
John DiMarco
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Domain Name ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
Web Space ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Web

You have come a long way in your journey; the end is near, and it is time to take your Web portfolio site and present it to the world. This stage is a critical one. If the Web portfolio does not make it to the Internet, it loses its portability and fails as an on-demand communication. In this chapter we will explore the steps needed in purchasing a domain name for your Web portfolio, securing a host and Web space, and uploading site files using FTP. We will also cover how to set up a site in Dreamweaver so the uploading and future edits are easy. Finally in the chapter, we discuss usability heuristics and how they can be used to measure the effectiveness of the Web portfolio. We review some of the usability theories provided by Nielsen and Molich and adapt them to fit a model for the Web portfolio.

Academic Staff Using University Website Profile Page for Academic Digital Branding

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Mogaji
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Digital Branding ◽  
The Web

The growing interest in the internet and other digital technologies transforming the practice of education has led to the emergence of novel uses of new media for engaging with stakeholders. This study explored the web profile academic staff in Nigerian universities to understand how academic staff are using the platform to position their academic brand in this digital age. The ALARA model of information search was adopted taking on a qualitative approach in understanding how information are presented and accessed on websites. The analysis revealed that academic staff are not taking ownership and responsibility for their pages, and they are making little effort to develop their academic brand in this digital age. This study contributes to knowledge of academic branding with implications for university administrators working on creating a platform for academics branding. This study also contributes to the literature on the general guidelines on usability evaluations of websites to improve staff profile webpages.

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