Modified and updated version of a chapter published in ‘Theory development in the information sciences’, D. Sonnenwald (ed.), University of Texas Press, 2016, pp 281-299, with recent references included.

Coming changes in the information environment, particularly the infosphere and immersive documents are briefly reviewed, and their significance for library/information science considered, with a focus on topics addressed in the writings of Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić. Issues analysed include the nature of these new developments, new models of i…[Read more]

This paper describes a new approach to education for library/information students in data
literacy – the principles and practice of data collection, manipulation and management – as a
part of the Masters programme in library and information science (CityLIS) at City,
University of London.

This PhD thesis, now largely of historical interest, describes a then-novel method of substructural analysis of chemical structure representations, with potential application in structure-property correlation and information retrieval within chemical information systems. Structural features are generated from Wiswesser Line Notation…[Read more]

This article was posted as a part of the MediaCommons cluster, “The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life”, examining comics as personal pieces of artwork whose context takes meaning from the everyday lives of the artist, as well as from their passion as fans for the multimedia franchise(s) that they follow.

This is a blog post containing the somewhat revised text of a chapter published in a Festschrift for Rafael Capurr, with comments from Capurro on our chapter.

This is a keynote presentation given at the 50th anniversary conference of the CILIP Library and Information History Group, CILIP HQ London, 6 November 2012.
It took a presidential theme, in acknowledgement of the US presidential election happening that day.
It was intended as a short introduction to the day, showing that the study of…[Read more]

Slides, notes and abstract for a presentation given a conference marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Sir Joseph Paxton. The presentation considers Paxton and his followers as authors, editors and publishers, establishing the knowledge base of horticulture and park design. They were participants in the wider dissemination of information…[Read more]

This short and speculative paper considers some philosophical approaches to understanding, particularly those related to Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Information, and based on the general idea that understanding is a special kind of knowledge. It is a slightly extended and updated version of the paper presented at CoLIS9.

This study looks into the life of a virtual gaming community, CTO Sims – a small slice of a
wider community that engages in what Bruns (2006) has termed produsage, remediating
videogame assets and content from a PC game, The Sims (2000) into custom or user-generated
content – a practice also called ‘modding’. Through a virtual ethnogr…[Read more]