Generation IA: Freedom of Information
by Jiwon Choi In the age of information, what does freedom of information really mean? Does it mean we can surf the web for hours on end, and read all the newspapers and blogs online that our eyes and brains [...]
What do you learn when you learn to read?
On March 1, I had the opportunity to attend the Gryphon Lecture, a yearly event at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that is sponsored by the Center for Children’s Books. This year, the lecture was delivered by Dr. Margaret [...]
Introducing Generation IA (Information Activists)
By Jiwon Choi Greetings, LSJ readers! My name is Jiwon Choi and I am pleased to join the LSJ blogging team. I am an early childhood educator, recent library science grad, and urban gardener committed to making sense of how [...]
Of information bubbles and information bias
A couple of stories circling the internet recently have struck me as being related to each other, part of a slippery-slope spectrum between filtering information to make it manageable and comprehensible (a necessary activity given the volume of data being [...]
“The Digital Millenium Copyright (Holders) Act: An explanation of the current balance of power in digital copyright law” by Jacob Ratliff
This new Library Student Journal article by recent University of Denver grad Jacob Ratliff explores one of the pressing issues of our time: information ownership. Here’s a bit of the introduction: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) grew out of [...]
Slate Magazine on Google Public Data Explorer
Is Google’s Public Data Explorer the first step toward a universal data format? is the question Chris Wilson posed in today’s Slate Magazine. Google Public Data Explorer is a data visualization tool to which users can upload their own data [...]
Bioinformatics, political economies of information, and… soda?
Marion Nestle comments on the new national Dietary Guidelines, and talks about how the presentation of information reflects political rather than public concerns. For me, the politics of food are fascinating but mostly tangential to my LIS studies, though there’s [...]
