ISKM10 Information Behavior

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Synchronous online teaching
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Pavla Vizváry, Ph.D. LL.M. (lecturer)
Mgr. Kristýna Kalmárová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Pavla Vizváry, Ph.D. LL.M.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is:
- orientate students in the issues of information behavior studies and the interdisciplinary nature of their research,
- to support their ability to analyze critical research publications and trends in information behavior research
- to provide a basis for their own research in the field of information behavior
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- to describe the differences between the basic paradigms of information behavior, to evaluate their advantages and disadvantages, to assign to the paradigms the corresponding methods of research and key experts
- to interpret models of information behavior
- to describe basic theories and methods of information behavior
- to analyze information behavior of users in different situations
- to describing information behavior to draw conclusions on the design of services and systems
- to write a scholarly article according to the IMRAD method
Syllabus
  • 1. Information Behavior and Information Interaction: Basic concepts and contexts
  • 2. Perspectives, paradigms
  • 3. Theory of Information Behavior
  • 4. Models and modeling of information behavior
  • 5. Information retrieval
  • 6. Methods of information behavior research
  • 7.
  • 8. Research of information behavior in specific contexts
  • 9. Information behavior and AI
Literature
    required literature
  • ST. JEAN, Beth, Ursula GORHAM and Elizabeth BONSIGNORE. Understanding human information behavior : when, how, and why people interact with information. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, xxi, 306. ISBN 9781538119129. info
  • FORD, Nigel. Introduction to information behaviour. first published. London: Facet publishing, 2015, x, 252. ISBN 9781856048507. info
  • FIDEL, Raya. Human information interaction : an ecological approach to information behavior. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012, xiv, 348. ISBN 9780262017008. info
    recommended literature
  • Bates, M.J. Úvod do metateorií, teorií a modelů. ProInflow. 2011, 3(1), 90-114. ISSN 1804–2406.
  • SAVOLAINEN, Reijo. Everyday information practices : a social phenomenological perspective. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2008, x, 232. ISBN 9780810861114. info
  • STEINEROVÁ, Jela. Informačné správanie : pohl'ady informačnej vedy. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Centrum vedecko-technických informácií SR, 2005, 189 s. ISBN 8085165902. info
  • Sense-making methodology reader : selected writings of Brenda Dervin. Edited by Brenda Dervin - Lois Foreman-Wernet - Eric Lauterbach. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, inc., 2003, xv, 397. ISBN 1572735090. info
  • CASE, Donald Owen. Looking for information : a survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior. San Diego, California: Academic Press, 2002, xvi, 350. ISBN 012150381X. info
Teaching methods
Educational methods:
- Lectures
- Discussions
- Tasks
Students actively work with professional and research publications in information behavior. In addition to the content covered in lectures, students must demonstrate their knowledge of the topic obtained by studying professional literature (see mandatory publications).
Assessment methods
Assessment takes place during the entire semester using a point system. To complete the course, the student must obtain a min. 60% points. Activities: - three individual tasks, - final group task, - written exam. Attendance is mandatory. More detailed instructions, including scoring, are available in the organization module of the interactive curriculum in IS.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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