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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"information practices"”.
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An Investigation of the Information Practices of Education Doctoral Students
<p>Academic libraries are increasingly re-envisioning their services to provide expanded outreach and segmented programming for specific user groups. Many academic libraries offer segmented services and programming for undergraduate groups such as first-year experience programs and general …
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Information, Activity and Social Order in Distributed Work: The Case of Distributed Software Problem Management
… empirically grounded description of the information practices used by a distributed F/OSS development organization to manage software problems, including the first description of a fundamental information object, the bug report network; clearly drawn distinctions between the information …
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Is Hearing Believing? Perception of Online Information Credibility by Screen Reader Users who are Blind or Visually Impaired
… impaired perceive the credibility of online information and how the screen reader used by them to interact with the Web mediates the process. Credibility perception was studied in the context of the screen reader users’ everyday information practices, examining in depth the effect of Web …
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Hate crime law & social contention : a comparison of nongovernmental knowledge practices in Canada & the United States
… and trans-phobic attacks using a variety of information practices. Interviews with representatives of these groups reveal a relationship between the practices of each group and hate crime laws at each site. The results support one principal conclusion. The availability of local legislative …
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The Meaning and Requirements of the Misuse Doctrine in Patent and Copyright Law
… them, the policy guaranteeing dissemination of information to store sufficient information to be used in further innovative activities, and the free-entry policy to allow the entry of third-party's follow-on innovations. Based on the discussion of IP policies, this dissertation will discuss the …
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Deliberating environmental policy: information seeking and use in Canada's House of Commons standing committees
This case study examines the information practices of Canada’s elected federal representatives who work together within House of Commons standing committees to deliberate environmental issues. We now have new methods to access data on government activities due to the availability of more structured …
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INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENTS AND INFORMATION USE TASKS WITH RESPECT TO DOCUMENT GENRES IN THE CONTEXT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING
<p>Higher education requires intense information practices for knowledge diffusion, application, and innovation. Faculty assess and use a variety of documents when they teach their students. They make complex credibility assessments, and they use information with varying degrees of perceived …
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The communication and exchange of information between state and stakeholders.
… the thesis is the communication and exchange of information between the state (i.e. parliaments and governments at the local, devolved, national and European levels, as well as those who aspire to become part of the state during parliamentary elections) and its stakeholders (i.e. citizens, …