The digital divide at its heart is a social divide. The two share many of the same fault lines. If we look just at the digital divide’s technological face, we see that “computer use is related to race and ethnicity, educational attainment, gender, basic household composition, and, most dramatically, income.” (Bishop, et al., 1999, page 363). Publi…[Read more]

The publication of Thomas A. Wayment’s The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints is a significant event that occasions not only a close examination of his work but also a discussion of how it fits into the complex relationship The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long shared with Bible translation.

Psalm 82 has long resisted a consensus regarding its genre. While some scholars have noted that the psalm’s language overlaps with that of the complaint genre, several features of the psalm appear to complicate that reading. As a result, the framework of the divine council is frequently given interpretive priority, which has resulted in a v…[Read more]

The “polluted infosphere,” a term coined by Luciano Floridi, the Oxford University
Philosopher of Information, describes the on-line, digital version of the Earth’s polluted
atmosphere. The 57% of the Earth’s population who are internet users are subject to a number
of mal-effects of the polluted infosphere. These mal-effects are not to be take…[Read more]

Does information behaviour change based on the setting? This paper looks at the new buildings of the Seattle Public Library, Boston Public Library and Helsinki’s Public Library, Oodi, and how design elements can help shape library usage and information behaviour.