Share Paper: Can Libraries Counteract the Behaviorist Impulse Latent in Big Data?
Friday, April 17 2:15-2:45 PM S1
Abstract: Big data is changing how we understand human behavior and human interaction with the physical world, a process that will inevitably change understandings of information seeking behavior, a subset of information behavior. Such behavior is a focus of study within Library Information Science (LIS) because it recognizes the importance of understanding human beings as they utilize information sources. Ultimately, a focus within LIS on information seeking behavior underscores the importance of numerous social science fields to LIS overall as well as information literacy. This paper seeks to explore, from a critical theory perspective, how the drift of big data toward ...