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Michael Stephens commented on the post, Checking In, on the site INFO 200 – Information Communities 3 weeks, 1 days ago
@hellodaniel I understand about burnout and I am glad the degree program is providing encouragement. I will share a link to a reading I have in my other class The Hyperlinked Library.
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Michael Stephens posted a new activity comment 2 months, 3 weeks ago
@hellodaniel Perfect!
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Michael Stephens commented on the post, Behold! Our OPML File for all the Class Blogs, on the site INFO 200 – Information Communities 2 months, 3 weeks ago
@janetkong @hellodaniel I really think Feedly or similar readers are invaluable for current awareness and monitoring sites.
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Asia Groves posted a new activity comment 2 months, 4 weeks ago
@hellodaniel that’s good advice, thank you!
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Michael Stephens posted a new activity comment 3 months ago
@hellodaniel either of these communities would be very interesting to focus on. For the live streaming community, you might have to pull from the broader literature, devoted to information behaviors and needs within social media, communities or creators communities. That would offer a lot of different studies to pull from to inform your view of…[Read more]
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Michael Stephens posted a new activity comment 3 months ago
@hellodaniel No worries!
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Michael Stephens posted a new activity comment 3 months, 1 weeks ago
@hellodaniel For our purposes in INFO 200, it is best to observe what members of an information community fro online but not interview or engage in any way. I have a post going up soon about this. INFO 200 is a literature and resources based class. To interview or survey folks you must take INFO 285, etc.
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@michael Thank you for the clarification! I may have to rethink my information community, but I’m curious and excited regardless.
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@hellodaniel No worries!
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Michael Stephens posted a new activity comment 3 months, 1 weeks ago
@hellodaniel I like your idea. My first thought that came into my head was a framework, utilizing serious leisure as a way to understand the information behaviors and needs of Pokémon fans. There is also some burgeoning research on fan communities in general usually for fans, we look at serious leisure and framework such as Hektor’s information…[Read more]
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Thank you for your advice. I’ll research Hektor’s information activities, as well as topics on leisure and fandoms.
Currently, I’m looking into competitive players of Pokemon video games. (There are less research specifically on my topic, compared to Pokemon Go. I might change it later.) I have been playing around with my search terms (“hardcore…[Read more]
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@hellodaniel For our purposes in INFO 200, it is best to observe what members of an information community fro online but not interview or engage in any way. I have a post going up soon about this. INFO 200 is a literature and resources based class. To interview or survey folks you must take INFO 285, etc.
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@michael Thank you for the clarification! I may have to rethink my information community, but I’m curious and excited regardless.
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@hellodaniel No worries!
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@michael I’ve been focusing on the Twitch streaming community, and I believe I found my information community. I like how I can focus on both “streamers” and the “viewers”, and it is a rather new area of research for information behaviors. Thank you for suggesting to look into Hektor!
@hellodaniel Perfect!