Weaver, W. (1949). Recent contributions to the mathematical theory of communication.  In, The mathematical theory of communication.  Urbana, IL: U. of Illinois Press. [Read Chapter 1]

Pierce, J. R. (1972). Communication. Scientific American, v 227, n3, 31-41.

E. 1. Tannen, D. (1995). The Power of talk: Who Gets Heard and Why.
 
 

2. Belkin, N. J. (1980). Anomalous States of Knowledge as a Basis for Information Retrieval.

E. 3. Chatman, Elfreda. (1996). The Impoverished Life-world of Outsiders.

J. Rogers, E. M. (1995). Diffusion of Innovations. pp. 1-37. (Note: this item is on reserve in the SILS library.)

E. 4. Sonnenwald, D. perspectives of Human Information Behavior Contexts, Situations, Social Networks, and Information Horizons

5. Taylor, R. S. (1968). Question-negotiation and Information Seeking in Libraries.

E.6. Roloff, M. E. (1981). Interpersonal Communication: The Social Exchange Approach. Chapter 1, Social Exchange: Key Concepts, p13-31.

Case study: The British Royal Navy and the Question of Scurvy
 
 

7. Dervin, B., & Nilan, M. (1986). Information Needs and Uses.

8. Manguel, A.. A History of Reading. (New York: Viking Penguin, 1996): “Reading Shadows” pp.26-39 and “The Shape of the Book” pp.124-147

SF 9 .TBA

10. Kwasnik, B. (1992). A Descriptive Study of the Functional Components of Browsing.

E. 11. Marchionini, G. (1995). Information Seeking in Electronic Environments. pp.

E. 12. Pirolli, P., & Card, S. (1999) Information Foraging. Psychological Review. 106 (4): pp. 643-675

13. Cooper, W. S. (1971). A Definition of Relevance for Information Retrieval Effectiveness. JASIS, 7, 19-37.

E. 14. Mizzaro, S. (1997) Relevance: The Whole History. JASIS, 48, 9, pp. 810-832.

E. 15. Schamber, L., Eisenberg, M. B., & Nilan, M. S. (1990). A Re-examination of Relevance: Toward a Dynamic, Situational Definition.

Book Structure Assignment due
 
 

E. 16. Smith, L. C. (1981). Citation Analysis.

E. 17. Crane, D. (1972). Invisible Colleges. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. [Q175.5 .C7] Chapter 3, The Social Organization of Research Areas, 41-65

E. 18. Small, H. (1999). Visualizing Science by Citation Mapping. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(9): 799-813.
 
 

19. Lee, Hu-Li.(2000) What is a collection? Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 51(12) 1106-1113.

20. Buckland, Michael. (1997). What is a Document? Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 48 (9): 804-809

Guest Speakers

TV Structure Assignment Due
 
 

22. Case study: Dibble's "Rape in Cyberspace"
 
 

E. 23. Tibbo, H. (1995). Interviewing Techniques for Remote Reference: Electronic Versus Traditional Environments.

24. Morris, R. C. T. (1994). Toward a User-Centered Information Service. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(1), 20-30
 
 

E. 25. Moorhead, G., Ference, R., & Neck, C. P. (1991). Group Decision Fiascoes Continue: Space Shuttle Challenger and a Groupthink Framework.

E. 26. Sonnenwald, D. (1996). Communication Roles that Support Collaboration During the Design Process.

Constant, D., Kiesler, S., & Sproull, L. (1994). What's Mine Is Ours, or Is It? A study of Attitudes about Information Sharing.
 
 

E. 27. Gasaway, L. (1998). Copyright the Internet, and Other Legal Issues. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(11): 1003-1009

E. 28. Samuelson, P. (1999). Good News and Bad News on the Intellectual Property Front. Communications of the ACM, 42(3): 19-24.
 
 

E. Brown, J. S., & Duguid, P. (2000). Agents and Angels. In The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 35-62. [HM851 .B76 2000]

E. Doctor, R. D. (1992). Social Equity and Information Technologies: Moving Toward Information Democracy.

E. Anderson, R., Bikson, T., Law, S., & Mitchell, B. (1995). Universal Access to e-mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications.  Santa Monica, CA [Read: Summary xiii-xxiii AND Chapter One: Introduction p. 1-12.]

Web Structure Assignment Due