Information Behaviour

Code:

CINF007

Acronym:

CINF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Information Science

Instance: 2013/2014 - 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	49	Plano Oficial a partir de 2008/2009	2	-	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.

Learning outcomes and competences

Skills: Provide students the ability to relate theoretical concepts to solve specific problems, specific and practical. Further research needs to search and use the information in various institutional and organizational contexts (business). Allow the student the distinction and relationship between research method and operational models, enabling him to create them, apply them and reformulate them according to the requirements of professional output connection.

Results: Contribute to strengthening the conceptual framework and theoretical-methodological CI reflected in performance and overall performance of the student. Accentuate the construction of the synthesis the student during and after her degree is bound to build and deepen.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Subjects from Theory and Methodology of Information Science

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
LE COADIC, Yves-François ; Usages et usagers de l'information., Association des Professionnels de l'Information et de la Documentation (ADBS)/Nathan, 2001
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
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]
AMARAL, Sueli Angelica do ; Marketing da informação na internet: ações de promoção, Ed. Uniderp, 2004
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
AMARAL, Sueli Angelica do ; Marketing: abordagem em unidades de informação. , Thesaurus Editora; SSRR Informações, 1998

Complementary Bibliography

ANZIEU, D. [et al.] ; Psicanálise e linguagem : do corpo à fala, Moraes Editores, 1979
DAMÁSIO, António ; Ao encontro de Espinoza: as emoções sociais e a neurologia do sentir, Publicações Europa-América, 2003
DAMÁSIO, António ; O Livro da consciência: a construção do cérebro consciente, Circulo de Leitores, 2010
MARTINS, Jorge M; Marketing do livro: materiais para uma sociologia do editor português: de Camilo à internet, o prazer de editar, Celta Editores, 1999.
DAMÁSIO, António; O Erro de Descartes : emoção, razão e cérebro humano, Publicações Europa-América, 1995
CARDOSO, Gustavo; Os Media na sociedade em rede, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006
DAMÁSIO, António ; O Sentimento de s i: o corpo, a emoção e a neurobiologia da consciência, Publicações Europa-América, 2000

Teaching methods and learning activities

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

keywords

Humanities > Information science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	44,00
Total:	160,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Presentation of assessment done during the semester, with a score of 40%. The final examination has a score of 60%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

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 examination