Midterm Review

1. Search Process
- six parts to model - her model was different because it emphasized emotion, feelings
- she did research on how people did their research projects
- emotions changed over time as they formulated their work (ie more confident as they advance through their research)
- formulation the most important stage
- didn't give us specific details on many assignments because he wants us to define our project ourselves (open-phase of search)
- open phase of search got boring because we needed to stop and formulate
- have to formulate for the midterm
2. Berrypicking Model
- dots on squigly lines are point in time where they got more information and changed their state of mind (why it's not linear)
- other picture is the typical search model
3. Internet History
- point of understanding where the internet came from because we need to understand how the internet structure works in order to understand the common applications we use today
- structures the digital search that everyone's doing and frames the context of the class in the digital era
4. Internet Technology
- point was to understand how things work, importance of protocol
- communication technology almost always runs off of protocol
- how information gets sorted, etc.
- protocol is standardization
- originally protocols and networks with phones weren't connected, so it was hard to call certain people
- citations are small protocol for scholarly communication
5. Copyright
- copyright doesn't last forever
- point is to achieve balance of copyright to encourage competition and innovation
- innovation is the goal
- giving anyone the ability to copy ideas removes incentives to take the work to the next level
- public domain - trademark, copyright expires
- Mickey Mouse Act discussion - extended the copyrights in order to....
6. Using different types of resources in class
- annotated biblio.
- point is to analyze sources and do a content analysis
7. Boolean Logic
- mathematical
- related to search because gives you a way to filter information
- search systems - communicate with other system in terms the other system can understand; system interprets information and sends back what it thinks you want
- such systems work on Boolean Logic
8. What we can use the library to get
- information not available on the open web
- information from many other sources costs money
- library information is called "invisible web"
9. Source Evaluation
- how do you trust sources?
- how does one trustworthy source lead you to other trustworthy references?
- peer reviews vs. news article
- peer review has to be accepted by others in the field of study (experts), only gate needed to pass for a news article to pass is an editor
- news article vs. book
- much easier to get an article published than a book (higher level of gatekeeping because - mediums
- platforms for communication
- reflects trust and gate keeping too
- packets - one metaphor is bomb as information with header and footer (payload in the middle)