Search Process
-Kulthau article—emotions change over time through the research process as they find more information and become more confident; critical stage is when people formulate and focus their research. Start off with an open search phase before formulation
-Berrypicking article—information is something that changes your state of mind; a search process that retrieves information is not linear but rather squiggly since each piece of information changes one’s state of mind and alters the research process.
-Internet History—understanding where the internet comes from; the point is you must understand how things work in order to use them and make them functional. Builds the context of the search process that we use and how it came from.
-Technology—importance of protocol for how things get routed and sorted; citations are a protocol for scholarly information location
-copyrights aren’t absolute but are in place for balance to encourage competition and ultimately innovation; incentive for people to take their work and ideas to the next level. (public domains)
-Mickey Mouse act—pushed to keep copyrights longer and raised issue of how long copyrights should last and how innovation is stifled/stimulated by this length
-Using different types of resources; annotated bibliographies
-Boolean Logic—simple mathematical operators that assist in communication with databases; another case of protocol
Source evaluations—trust of reference materials; peer-reviews (levels of gate-keeping)
-Medium—platform of communication (internet, books, radio, tv) that also acts as a trust factor
-packets—information with a header and a footer
