All Outputs (9)

'Making the Building Blocks Small' - the participative and capital-enhancing development of digital literacies in older adults (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feeney, D., Ryan, F. V., Brazier, D., & Webster, G. (2025, June). 'Making the Building Blocks Small' - the participative and capital-enhancing development of digital literacies in older adults. Presented at CoLIS 2025: 12th Annual International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Older adults are disproportionately affected by deficits in digital literacy development and by present learning environments which are either difficult to access or not conducive to their specific needs. Participatory research frameworks offer compe... Read More about 'Making the Building Blocks Small' - the participative and capital-enhancing development of digital literacies in older adults.

Public libraries, participative research and the user-led development of digital literacies (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feeney, D., Ryan, F. V., Brazier, D., & Webster, G. (2025, April). Public libraries, participative research and the user-led development of digital literacies. Poster presented at LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference, Cardiff University, Wales

A digital-first world requires digital skillsets adequate to participate in it, meaning that those without such skills risk being left behind in an age of almost-compulsory computing. Deficits in digital literacy competencies thus have detrimental re... Read More about Public libraries, participative research and the user-led development of digital literacies.

Assisting Information Practice: From Information Intermediary To Social Proxy (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cruickshank, P., Webster, G., & Ryan, F. (2020, September). Assisting Information Practice: From Information Intermediary To Social Proxy. Presented at ISIC 2020 The Information Behaviour conference, Pretoria, South Africa

The increasing dependence on social media and other online systems as part of everyday life has grown considerably over the years. At the same time, the complexity and security of online systems has also been increasing, making it more challenging fo... Read More about Assisting Information Practice: From Information Intermediary To Social Proxy.

Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, A., Ryan, F. V., Cruickshank, P., & Hall, H. (2019, June). Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms. Presented at Tenth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Introduction.
The broad theme of this paper is the use of information to build, manage and evaluate personal reputations. It reports the findings of a study that considered the extent to which social media users replicate in online environments the... Read More about Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms.

Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F. V. C., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2017, October). Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective. Presented at Annual Meeting of The Association for Information Science & Technology, Washington D.C., US

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.

Blurred reputations: Managing profession and private information online (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2017, June). Blurred reputations: Managing profession and private information online. Paper presented at i3: information: interactions and impact

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Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2016, September). Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective. Presented at ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Zadar, Croatia

Introduction. The means by which individuals evaluate the personal reputations of others, and manage their own personal reputations, as determined by information shared on social media platforms, is investigated from an information science perspectiv... Read More about Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective..

Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2016, January). Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments. Presented at IDIMC 2016 - Exploring our digital shadow: from data to intelligence

The main theme of the paper is the development of a framework to investigate how online information is used in the creation, building, and evaluation of personal reputations. (Here the term “personal reputation” refers to the reputation of private in... Read More about Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments..

Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2015, June). Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online. Paper presented at Information: interactions and impact (i3) 2015

This paper is concerned with how online information contributes to the determination of personal reputations. The term “personal reputation” in this context means the reputation of private individuals, rather than corporate identity and brand. The pa... Read More about Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online..