Warren Allen, a professor in the School of Information, was recently awarded a grant for his research surrounding social media. The grant was awarded by the Council on Research & Creativity for his proposal, “Social Media Pilot System to Represent Soft Skills of Information Technology Students.” Allen’s research is centered around Information Technology students and their …
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Research news from the CCI School of Information
Warren Allen awarded CRC Grant
iSchool’s Dr. Ho awarded NSF I-CORPS grant
Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, “I-Corps: Market Impact Identification of Dyadic Attribution Model for Disposition Assessment Using Online Games.” The $50,000 grant started December 14th, 2014 and will run until May 2015. Dr. Ho researches human-computer interactions and focuses heavily on cyber insider threats and …
CONTINUE READINGStvilia and Gibradze published
Two members of Florida State University‘s School of Information, Besiki Stvilia and Leila Gibradze, were recently published in Library & Information Science Research. What do academic libraries tweet about, and what makes a library tweet useful?, was published in October 2014 and analyzed 1,200 tweets from six large academic libraries. A content analysis revealed nine content …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool’s Katy Comellas defends Master’s Thesis
Katy Comellas started her graduate degree in the School of Information in 2012. She had just finished her Bachelor’s at University of Central Florida and joined the MLIS program with the intention of studying children’s literature. “I’ve always found international children’s literature fascinating,” she shared. In the iSchool, and many other graduate programs, a thesis …
CONTINUE READINGMark your calendar – iSchool Research Brown bags
Brown Bags will be held from 11:45-1:30pm in Rm 206 in the Shores building. 19-Nov: Sanghee Oh and Mia Lustria–eHealth Research at the iSchool 10-Dec: Gary Burnett, Julia Skinner, Jisue Lee, and Jon Hollister -Theory, Practice, and Collaboration 14-Jan: Chuck McClure and Laura Spears–IT School and Career Pathways in Rural Florida 18-Feb: Don Latham and …
CONTINUE READINGMeet the iSchool at ASIS&T 2014
Are you attending ASIS&T 2014? Join us October 31-November 5 in Seattle, Washington for the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting – Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities. Here’s where you can find FSU iSchool faculty, staff, students and alumni at ASIS&T! SUNDAY, November 2 3:30pm-5pm Youth I (Panel) Youth Beyond Borders: Methodological Challenges in Youth …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool’s Richard Urban presents at DCMI
Richard Urban, Assistant Professor in the School of Information, presented at International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Dallas, Texas from October 8-11. Urban, who wrote his dissertation on the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle, presented on the subject at his third DCMI conference. “I’ve attended DCMI 2008 in Berlin and DCMI 2010 in …
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