<p>Seminar, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 291A. Topics include information and evidence—record-keeping and memory-making, personal and community identity, accountability and trust. Information and design—design and implementation of information systems and services, information aesthetics. Information retrieval and knowledge organization. Information seeking, access, and use—contexts, techniques, needs, barriers. Information and power—groups, ideologies, identities, structures. Information and value—information ethics, evaluation of information services. Information policy and law—processes, institutions, players, stakes. Information institutions and professions—domains, ecologies, cultures, communities. Economics, geography, history, philosophy, politics, sociology of information. Letter grading.</p>

Information Studies

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The principal goal of research and practice in information studies is to support the making of culture and community in an increasingly pluralist, globalizing world.

General Catalog

Special Topics in Theory of Information Studies

INF STD 291C

4 units