Information Behaviour

Code:

CINF007

Acronym:

CINF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Information Science

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CINF	44	Plano Oficial a partir de 2008/2009	2	-	6	56	162
FCOGIM	0	Course Programme	1	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Among the subjects that form the nucleus of the degree in Information Science, Informational Behaviour lies between the epistemological requirement of the theory and methodology of Information Science and the applied or theory-practical strand of the course.
Students are therefore required to better assimilate the epistemological and theory-methodological basics taught in the first semester, and to apply them using the process that guided the user studies and the bibliometry tests that emerged between the two world wars and mid-20th century, up to the more holistic and scientific approach involved in the study of information behaviour.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Theory-methodological issues
1.1. Operative definitions of information
1.2. Mind and action/subject and environment
1.3. Theory and technical poles of the Four-Dimensional Method
1.3.1. Theories and models applicable to the study of behaviour
1.3.2. Methodological techniques adjusted to the same type of study
2. Behaviour issues
2.1. Informational Behaviour - one of the three areas of study/research in Information Science
2.2. Individual and group needs, environment (educational, social, economic, political and cult-mental), organic context (informal and institutional), situation and use of information
2.2.1 Strengthening of the interaction between context, situation, needs and use through various models
3. Main focus of study in information behavior (search and use)
3.1 Information Services - libraries, archives, documentation centers, museums and online services.
3.2 Specific Communities - scientific communication (infometrics, bibliometrics and scientometrics).
3.3 Business Context - seek and use information in organizations and institutions (management of information and "intelligence competitive").
3.4 Internet Galaxy / "Space of Flows" - search and use on websites, blogs and "social networks".
4. Analytical exploration of situations and case studies
4.1 Impact on a number of topics grouped or implied in the following areas:
4.1.1 A - Objectives and strategies /policies of acquisition and access to information in any type of format (paper and digital) by public services /institutions, archives, libraries and documentation /information centres)
4.1.2 B - Interpellation, needs and levels of (in)satisfication of information users in any type of format (paper and digital) by public services /institutions, archives, libraries and documentation /information centres.
4.1.3 Area C - Information seeking and use in “informal” or everyday contexts (at home, listening to the radio, watching TV, listening to music, reading newspapers and magazines, at the café, at the hair-dresser, in public transports, at work, etc.)
4.1.4 Area D - Information production, flow, memory, use and transformation in public and private organisations - the info-communicational relationship
4.1.5 Area E - Production, seeking and use in the Internet, using several different types of sites - between the info-exclusion and the chaotic and deranged profusion of “contents”"
4.1.6 Area F - Application of info-metrical techniques and laws to the creation and dissemination of information in specific groups .

Mandatory literature

CANAVARRO, José Manuel; Teorias e paradigmas organizacionais, Quarteto Editora, 2000
MARTINS, Jorge M; Marketing do livro: materiais para uma sociologia do editor português: de Camilo à internet, o prazer de editar, Celta Editores, 1999.
CHOO, Chun Wei ; Gestão de informação para a organização inteligente: a arte de explorar o meio ambiente., Editorial Caminho, 2003
CHANG, Shan-Ju L.; LEE, Yu-ya; Conceptualizing context and its relationship to the information behavior in dissertation research process. Journal of Library and Information Science. Taipé (Taiwan). 26:2 , (Oct. 2000) 4-18
PAIM, Isis (org.) ; A Gestão da informação e do conhecimento, Escola de Ciência da Informação/UFMG, 2003
ROBREDO, Jaime; Infometria e ciência da informação. In Informação & informática. Org. Nídia M. L. Lubisco, Lídia M. B. Brandão, EDUFBA, 2000
BORGES, Maria Manuel ; De Alexandria a Xanadu, Quarteto Editora, 2002
MARCOS, Mari Carmen ; Interacción en interfaces de recuperación de información: conceptos, metáforas y visualización, Ediciones Trea, 2004
FIGUEIREDO, Nice Menezes de ; Estudos de uso e usuários da informação, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT), 1994
WILSON, Tom; WALSH, Christina ; Information behaviour an inter-disciplinary perspectiva, In http://informationr.net/tdw/publ/infbehav/cont.html [consultada em 10-11-2010]
BOUGNOUX, Daniel ; Introdução às ciências da comunicação, EDUSC, 1999
51- Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences de l''information et de la communication. Dir. Bernard Lamizet, Ahmed Silem, Ellipses, 1997
AMARAL, Sueli Angelica do ; Marketing da informação na internet: ações de promoção, Ed. Uniderp, 2004
45- Comunicação-Cognição. In Enciclopédia Einaudi, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2001, vol. 34
TARAPANOFF, Kira (org.) ; Inteligência organizacional e competitiva, Editora Universidade de Brasília, 2000
DAVENPORT, Thomas H.; Ecologia da informação : por que só a tecnologia não basta para o sucesso na era da informação., Editora Futura, 2002
ALONSO BERROCAL, José L.; G. FIGUEROLA, Carlos; F. ZAZO, Ángel ; Cibernetría: nuevas técnicas de estudio aplicables al web, Ediciones Trea, 2003
CALLON, Michel; COURTIAL, Jean-Pierre; PENAN, Hervé; Cienciometria: el estudio cuantitativo de la actividad científica: de la bibliometria a la vigilancia tecnológica, Ediciones Trea, 1995
Dictionnaire encyclopédique de l'information et de la documentation. Dir. Serge Cacly. , Éditions Nathan, 1997
GARCÍA SANTIAGO, Lola ; Extraer y visualizar información en internet: el web mining, Ediciones Trea, 2003
DEVLIN, Keith ; Info-senso : como transformar a informação em conhecimento, Edição "Livros do Brasil", 2000
43- O Campo da ciência da informação : gênese, conexões e especificidades. Org. Mirian de Albuquerque Aquino, Editora Universitária, 2002
AMARAL, Sueli Angelica do ; Promoção: o marketing visível da informação, Brasília Jurídica, 2001
LE COADIC, Yves-François ; Usages et usagers de l'information., Association des Professionnels de l'Information et de la Documentation (ADBS)/Nathan, 2001
AMARAL, Sueli Angelica do ; Marketing: abordagem em unidades de informação. , Thesaurus Editora; SSRR Informações, 1998

Complementary Bibliography

44- Le Cerveau et la pensée : la révolution des sciences cognitives. Coord. par Jean-François Dortier, Sciences Humaines Éditions, 1999
ANZIEU, D. [et al.] ; Psicanálise e linguagem : do corpo à fala, Moraes Editores, 1979
ABADAL FALGUERAS, Ernest ; Sistemas y servicios de información digital. , : Ediciones Trea, 2001
46- La Communication : état des savoirs. Coord. par Philippe Cabin, Sciences Humaines Éditions, 1998
CARDOSO, Gustavo; Os Media na sociedade em rede, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006
DAMÁSIO, António ; O Livro da consciência: a construção do cérebro consciente, Circulo de Leitores, 2010
DAMÁSIO, António ; O Sentimento de s i: o corpo, a emoção e a neurobiologia da consciência, Publicações Europa-América, 2000
DAMÁSIO, António; O Erro de Descartes : emoção, razão e cérebro humano, Publicações Europa-América, 1995
DAMÁSIO, António ; Ao encontro de Espinoza: as emoções sociais e a neurologia do sentir, Publicações Europa-América, 2003

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository theory-practice classes, constantly questioning students and motivating them to dialogue and discuss some texts from the reading list.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
Written assessement (individual)	Trabalho escrito	40,00		2013-07-13
Final examination	Exame	2,00		2013-07-13
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Study preparation	Estudo autónomo	64	2013-07-13
	Total:	64,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Presentation of work done during the school year, with a score of 40%
The final exam has a score of 60%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students are not exempted from presenting all assessment components.

Classification improvement

Students can improve their final mark by redrafting or presenting a new version of the assignment (with new themes) and repeating the final exam