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"I did not realize so many options are available": Cognitive authority, search engines, emerging adults, and mental health (2010)
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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), 25-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2010.07.015

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.