Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (22)

Librarian Questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Librarian Questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682093

Results of questionnaire emailed to senior public librarians in Scotland. Questions were around their support of Community Councils including support and training of Community Councillors information skills, for a project around information literacy... Read More about Librarian Questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016.

Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F. V. C., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2018). Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 792-793. https://doi.org/10.1002/pr

The research presented in this poster is concerned with the ways in which people use information to build identities for themselves online with reference to the themes of personal reputation management. To date these two themes have been under-explor... Read More about Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective.

Skills in Sight: How Social Media Affordances Increase Network Awareness (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buunk, I., Hall, H., & Smith, C. (2017). Skills in Sight: How Social Media Affordances Increase Network Awareness. In Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management ECKM 2017

The discussion in this paper derives from an analysis of data from twenty interviews conducted with members of an online knowledge sharing platform between October 2016 and February 2017. The empirical work is part of a larger doctoral study that inv... Read More about Skills in Sight: How Social Media Affordances Increase Network Awareness.

Defining the UK information worker: the CILIP-ARA Workforce Mapping Project (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2017, August). Defining the UK information worker: the CILIP-ARA Workforce Mapping Project. Presented at McMaster Library Symposium 2017, Hamilton, Canada

In 2014 the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and the Archives and Records Association (ARA) made a call to commission a team to undertake a workforce mapping project. The purpose of this work was to enhance underst... Read More about Defining the UK information worker: the CILIP-ARA Workforce Mapping Project.

Research into social media information practices, and social media information practices for research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H. (2017, August). Research into social media information practices, and social media information practices for research. Presented at DeGroote Business School, McMaster University, research seminar series, Hamilton, Canada

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland has built a track record for its research into information behaviours and social media use. Early projects completed in the mid-noughties focused on the value of soci... Read More about Research into social media information practices, and social media information practices for research.

Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pawluczuk, A., Webster, G., Hall, H., & Smith, C. (2017, July). Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play. Presented at The 2017 British Human Computer Interaction Conference, Sunderland, UK

This paper examines young people’s participation in digital culture and current approaches to measure its social impact. The analysis of the literature presented here reveals current scholarly understanding of the value of digital youth culture, soci... Read More about Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play.

Youth digital participation: measuring social impact (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pawluczuk, A., Hall, H., Smith, C. F., & Webster, G. (2017, June). Youth digital participation: measuring social impact. Paper presented at i3 - information: interactions and impact

1.Introduction The concept of ‘youth participation’ has developed since the early 2000s in a time during which young people's everyday lives have become more heavily influenced and shaped by ‘multimodal, interactive, convergent, and networked media’... Read More about Youth digital participation: measuring social impact.

Getting unstuck: Information problem solving in high school STEM students and evidence of metacognitive knowledge (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richter, T., Muir, L., Flint, T., Hall, H., & Smith, C. (2017, June). Getting unstuck: Information problem solving in high school STEM students and evidence of metacognitive knowledge. Paper presented at i3- information: interactions and impact

This presentation reports the initial findings from an ongoing empirical study which aims to evaluate how students seek, use, and think about information when they encounter problems in the design, construction, and delivery of digital technology pro... Read More about Getting unstuck: Information problem solving in high school STEM students and evidence of metacognitive knowledge.