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Putting the pieces together: endometriosis blogs, cognitive authority, and collaborative information behavior (2011)
Journal Article
Neal, D. M., & McKenzie, P. J. (2011). Putting the pieces together: endometriosis blogs, cognitive authority, and collaborative information behavior. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 99(2), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.99.2.004

Objective: A discourse analysis was conducted of peer-written blogs about the chronic illness endometriosis to understand how bloggers present information sources and make cases for and against the authority of those sources.Methods: Eleven blogs tha... Read More about Putting the pieces together: endometriosis blogs, cognitive authority, and collaborative information behavior.

Finding emotional-laden resources on the World Wide Web (2011)
Journal Article
Knautz, K., Neal, D. R., Schmidt, S., Siebenlist, T., & Stock, W. G. (2011). Finding emotional-laden resources on the World Wide Web. Information, 2(1), 217-246. https://doi.org/10.3390/info2010217

Some content in multimedia resources can depict or evoke certain emotions in users. The aim of Emotional Information Retrieval (EmIR) and of our research is to identify knowledge about emotional-laden documents and to use these findings in a new kind... Read More about Finding emotional-laden resources on the World Wide Web.

"I did not realize so many options are available": Cognitive authority, search engines, emerging adults, and mental health (2010)
Journal Article
Neal, D. M., Campbell, A. J., Williams, L. Y., Liu, Y., & Nussbaumer, D. (2011). "I did not realize so many options are available": Cognitive authority, search engines, emerging adults, and mental health. Library and Information Science Research, 33(1), 2

Approximately one in five people in developed countries such as Canada and Australia will experience mental illness during their lifespan, and this statistic may be even higher for people between the ages of 18 and 25. Due to widespread stigma and ot... Read More about "I did not realize so many options are available": Cognitive authority, search engines, emerging adults, and mental health.

Emotion-based tags in photographic documents: The interplay of text, image, and social influence (2010)
Journal Article
Neal, D. M. (2010). Emotion-based tags in photographic documents: The interplay of text, image, and social influence. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 34(3), 329-353. https://doi.org/10.1353/ils.2010.0000

This study investigated the communicative roles played by the text, image, and social interaction in high- and low-relevance ranked Flickr photographic documents with an emotion-based tag. Using discourse analysis, textual and visual themes regarding... Read More about Emotion-based tags in photographic documents: The interplay of text, image, and social influence.

A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors (2010)
Journal Article
Lee, H., & Neal, D. (2010). A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors. Journal of Information Science, 36(5), 547-565. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510374930

Few studies have been conducted to identify users’ desired semantic levels of image access when describing, searching, and retrieving photographs online. The basic level, or the level of abstraction most commonly used to describe an item, is a cognit... Read More about A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors.

News photographers, librarians, tags, and controlled vocabularies: Balancing the forces (2008)
Journal Article
Neal, D. (2008). News photographers, librarians, tags, and controlled vocabularies: Balancing the forces. Journal of Library Metadata, 8(3), 199-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386380802373936

This article discusses a survey distributed to photojournalism professionals in order to determine their metadata preferences for photograph retrieval in an online archival system. Their top preferences included: named objects, specific events occurr... Read More about News photographers, librarians, tags, and controlled vocabularies: Balancing the forces.

CREST+ model: writing effective online discussion questions (2007)
Journal Article
Akin, L., & Neal, D. (2007). CREST+ model: writing effective online discussion questions. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 3(2), 191-202

Research on online classes strongly identifies participation as a positive variable. Research on online teaching also reveals the time intensive practices involved with providing individualized attention and feedback. An online instructor must negoti... Read More about CREST+ model: writing effective online discussion questions.

News photography image retrieval practices: Locus of control in two contexts (2006)
Thesis
Pennington, D. (2006). News photography image retrieval practices: Locus of control in two contexts. (Thesis). University of North Texas

This is the first known study to explore the image retrieval preferences of news photographers and news photo editors in work contexts. Survey participants (n=102) provided opinions regarding 11 photograph searching methods. The quantitative survey d... Read More about News photography image retrieval practices: Locus of control in two contexts.

Why were Twitter users obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?
Preprint / Working Paper
Mavroeidi, A., Innes, R., Miyake, E., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022). Why were Twitter users obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?

The aim of this study was to explore how the relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19 has been represented on the social media site Twitter. NCapture was used to collect textual Tweets on a weekly basis for three months during the pandemic. In tot... Read More about Why were Twitter users obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?.