FSU Associate Professor and Doctoral Candidate Publish Study on Mobile Wellness Applications

FSU associate professor Besiki Stvilia and FSU alumnus  Wonchan Choi recently published an exploratory study entitled “Mobile wellness application-seeking behavior by college students.” The duo examined how students obtain wellness information, including what wellness applications students use and for what purposes and how students found out about and select the wellness applications. According to the study, students get most of their …

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Stvilia 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 …

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FSU School of Information faculty and doctoral students to attend 2014 iConference in Berlin

Several doctoral students and faculty members from Florida State University (FSU)’s School of Information are heading to the 2014 iConference in Berlin, Germany that will take place March 4 through 7. This year’s FSU participants include: Dr. Warren Allen, Dr. Gary Burnett, Dr. Kathleen Burnett, Wonchan Choi, Laura-Edythe Coleman, Dr. Nancy Everhart, Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho, Ji Hei Kang, …

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SLIS at 2011 ALISE Annual Conference

Looking to connect with faculty, students and alumni of the FSU School of Library & Information Studies at the 2011 ALISE Annual Conference? As usual, they are making generous contributions to the event. Here are their presentations: WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5, 2011 10:30 a.m.–Noon ALISE Research Award 2010 Update: “An Activity Theory Approach to the Study …

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Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams

By Audrey Post College of Communication & Information Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will become the subject of study as a team from the College of Communication …

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