Special Topics in Theory of Information Studies

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Seminar, four hours. Topics include information and evidence—record-keeping and memory-making, personal and community identity, accountability and trust. Information and design—design and implementation of information systems and services, information aesthetics. Information retrieval and knowledge organization. Information seeking, access, and use—contexts, techniques, needs, barriers. Information and power—groups, ideologies, identities, structures. Information and value—information ethics, evaluation of information services. Information policy and law—processes, institutions, players, stakes. Information institutions and professions—domains, ecologies, cultures, communities. Economics, geography, history, philosophy, politics, sociology of information. Letter grading.