Human geography and information studies

Downey, Greg

doi:10.1002/aris.2007.1440410122

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“…The reasons that citations received vary with authors' subregions and countries' income levels warrant further examination. In addition to the geographies of infrastructure discussed by Downey (2007), this author proposes exploring the geographies of invisible colleges and testing a possible geographic scope effect. Continuous research in bibliometrics and scholarly communication, together with the critical perspectives offered by social informatics and human geography, will shed further light on the trends, facilitators, and barriers in communication for researchers in different areas of the world.…”

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“…Social informatics scholars have underscored the need to critique the differential impacts of ICT on various groups (Kling, 2000;Sawyer & Eschenfelder, 2002). Downey (2007) demonstrated how the critical approach of human geography can contribute to LIS research. He discussed the "geographies of infrastructure" and their role in reproducing social power (p. 697).…”

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International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980-2008

Sin

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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International collaborative papers are increasingly common in journals of many disciplines. These types of papers are often cited more frequently. To identify the coauthorship trends within Library and Information Science (LIS), this study analyzed 7,489 papers published in six leading publications (ARIST, IP&M, JAMIA, JASIST, MISQ, and Scientometrics) over the last three decades. Logistic regression tested the relationships between citations received and seven factors: authorship type, author's subregion, country income level, publication year, number of authors, document type, and journal title. The main authorship type since 1995 was national collaboration. It was also the dominant type for all publications studied except ARIST, and for all regions except Africa. For citation counts, the logistic regression analysis found all seven factors were significant. Papers that included international collaboration, Northern European authors, and authors in high-income nations had higher odds of being cited more. Papers from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Southern Europe had lower odds than North American papers. As discussed in the bibliometric literature, Merton's Matthew Effect sheds light on the differential citation counts based on the authors' subregion. This researcher proposes geographies of invisible colleagues and a geographic scope effect to further investigate the relationships between author geographic affiliation and citation impact.

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International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980-2008

Sin

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Because of its uneven geographies, the power/knowledge nexus is thus inherently inclusionary and empowering for some people and places and inherently exclusionary and disempowering for others. Knowledge clusters that are reinforced by repeated rounds of spatial fi xes can thus result in, and reinforce, a landscape of uneven geographic development (Downey, 2008).…”

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Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies: Exploring the Geolinguistic Contours of the Web

2013

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Abstract. This paper analyzes the digital dimensions of places as represented by online, geocoded references to the economic, social, and political experiences of the city. These digital layers are invisible to the naked eye, but form a central component of the augmentations and mediations of place enabled by hundreds of millions of mobile computing devices and other digital technologies. The analysis highlights how these augmentations of place diff er across space and language and highlights both the diff erences and some of the causal factors behind them. This is performed through a global study of all online content indexed within Google Maps, and more specifi c analyses of the linguistically and topically segregated layers of information over four selected places. The uneven linguistic geographies that this study reveals undoubtedly infl uence the many ways in which place is enacted and brought into being. The larger aim of this project is to use these initial mappings of the linguistic contours of the geoweb to push forward a broader debate about how augmented inclusions and exclusions, visibilities and invisibilities will shape the way that places become defi ned, imagined, and experienced.

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“…Naumer and Fisher (in press) elaborated on information need, one of the field's core concepts; Kraaijenbrink (2007) categorized gaps related to information identification, acquisition, and utilization. According to Downey (2007), temporality and spatiality, ideas borrowed from human geography, are promising concepts for information behavior research. Kari and Hartel (2007) argued for greater attention to the pleasurable and the profound, termed higher order information phenomena, to balance attention to everyday and work situations.…”

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“…Case's (2006) chapter is recommended reading for an overview of past coverage of information behavior in ARIST . The current chapter is intended to complement cognate reviews on activity theory and information seeking (Wilson, 2008), multitasking behavior (Spink, Cole, & Waller, 2008), human geography and information studies (Downey, 2007), personal information management (Jones, 2007), scientific collaboration (Sonnenwald, 2007), context in information behavior research (Courtright, 2007), workplace studies and technological change (Garcia, Dawes, Kohne, Miller, & Groschwitz, 2006), collaborative information seeking and retrieval (Foster, 2006), information failures in health care (MacIntosh‐Murray & Choo, 2006), the social world of the Web (Haythornthwaite & Hagar, 2005), and children, teenagers, and the Web (Large, 2005).…”

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Information behavior

Fisher

Julien

2009

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

106

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IntroductionInformation behavior focuses on people's information needs; on how they seek, manage, give, and use information, both purposefully and passively, in the varied roles that comprise their everyday lives. Since the first ARIST chapters in the 1960s, the field of information needs and uses has expanded beyond studying academics and scientists to addressing non-work-related situations, employing mixed empirical methods, building a conceptual core for framing information behavior studies, and identifying key concepts for future investigation. This chapter reviews information behavior research published since Case's (2006) review, spanning the years 2005 to early 2008 and backpedaling to include several works from 2004. In addition to searching bibliographic databases, manual examinations were conducted of such key journals as further developed through solicitations on the ASIST SIG USE and ASIST listservs, which helped identify works in press. As Case (2006) noted, information behavior is a broad field that in its widest interpretation includes just about any paper that deals with information and people. In order to focus and manage the review, we excluded papers that limited themselves to the use of a particular source or system, did not encompass broader concepts or principles, and generally excluded other information science subfields such as information retrieval, information literacy, and knowledge management. We also excluded material written in languages other than English.Candidate papers were further limited to the formally published literature; we excluded reports to funding agencies and self-published papers. Beginning with an overview of the research methods used in post-2004 studies, this chapter traces the information behavior literature by discussing the theme of context, followed by elaborations of specific populations (academics, scientists, and students; occupational groups; and ordinary people in everyday life situations and health contexts), information sources (interpersonal, social networks and the Internet, and libraries), key concepts (including affect), and finally, theoretical frameworks. Case's (2006) chapter is recommended reading for an overview of past coverage of information behavior in ARIST. The current chapter is intended to complement cognate reviews on activity theory and information seeking (Wilson, 2008), multitasking behavior (Spink, Cole, & Waller, 2008), human geography and information studies (Downey, 2007), personal information management (Jones, 2007), scientific collaboration (Sonnenwald, 2007), context in information behavior research (Courtright, 2007), workplace 7-3 studies and technological change (Garcia, Dawes, Kohne, Miller, & Groschwitz, 2006), collaborative information seeking and retrieval (Foster, 2006), information failures in health care (MacIntosh-Murray & Choo, 2006), the social world of the Web (Haythornthwaite & Hagar, 2005), and children, teenagers, and the Web (Large, 2005). Method in Information Behavior ResearchThe methods used in recent info...

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Human geography and information studies

Cited by 6 publications

References 90 publications

International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980-2008

International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980-2008

Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies: Exploring the Geolinguistic Contours of the Web

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