Information Behaviour

Code:

CINF007

Acronym:

CINF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Information Science

Instance: 2018/2019 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information 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	39	CINF - Study Plan	2	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

Skills:
To provide students the ability to relate theoretical concepts to solve real, specific and practical problems. To deepen knowledge about the search needs and use of information in various institutional and organizational contexts (business). To enable students to distinguish and relate research method and operating models, allowing them to create, apply and reformulate them according to the requirements of the profisisonal context.
Results:
To contribute to (1) strengthening the conceptual and theoretical-methodological issues of Information Science and (2) constructing the synthesis that the student has to perform.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Mandatory literature

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 da informação na internet: ações de promoção, Ed. Uniderp, 2004
CANAVARRO, José Manuel; Teorias e paradigmas organizacionais, Quarteto Editora, 2000
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
WILSON, Tom; WALSH, Christina ; Information behaviour an inter-disciplinary perspectiva, In http://informationr.net/tdw/publ/infbehav/cont.html [consultada em 10-11-2010]
LE COADIC, Yves-François ; Usages et usagers de l'information., Association des Professionnels de l'Information et de la Documentation (ADBS)/Nathan, 2001

Complementary Bibliography

CARDOSO, Gustavo; Os Media na sociedade em rede, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecture method with class discussion of certain topics and following up of the work to be developed by students during the semester.

keywords

Humanities > Information science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	40,00
Trabalho de campo	35,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	52,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Class attendance is not compulsory but students will have to perform the 2 assignments and the exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification involves the following components:
1. A work only for oral presentation (T1 - 20%)
2. A work consisting of (a) oral presentation (T2AO - 15%) and (b) written version (T2VE - 25%)
3. Final examination (EX - 40%).

The completion of both works is mandatory.
Given their nature the works are not susceptible to appeal and / or improvement.

The calculation formula for the final evaluation is as follows:
0.2T1 + 0.15T2AO + 0.25T2VE + 0.4EX

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students will have to perform the same evaluation components.

Classification improvement

Only for final examination.
Given their nature the works are not susceptible to appeal and / or improvement.