The use of the social networking site Twitter as a backchannel for conversation during both planned and unplanned activities and events is now almost routine in much of the world, including in higher education. This paper provides a small case study of student perceptions and use of Twitter for informal learning during a mixed mode…[Read more]

Article about an interview with Dr. Matt Finch about fan information behaviour and fan literacy.

There’s a Japanese film industry, and then there’s ‘Japanese Cinema’ – a construct we imagine and create through the stories we tell about it. In the past, ‘Japanese Cinema’ has been imagined in the West as a story of auteurs (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa), esoteric national styles (Ozu’s tatami-inspired low- level frame), and bizarre genres (Pink ei…[Read more]

This essay aims to make a thorough analysis and evaluation of the research paper, ‘Selecting fiction as a part of everyday life information seeking’ (Ooi and Liew, 2011). In doing so, it broadly uses the ‘three-pass’ approach proposed by Keshav (2007), in order to better appraise the material, its proposals, research methods, findings and conclus…[Read more]