Digital Information and Value

Digital Information and Value

Digital information changes the ways in which people and organisations interact. This paper examines the nature of this change in the context of the author’s Model for Information (MfI). It investigates the relationship between outcomes and value, selection processes and some attributes of information and explores how this relationship changes in the move from analogue to digital information. S...

A Digital Soapbox? The Information Value of Online Physician Ratings

The internet has fostered widespread information transparency and a rapid rise in consumer-generated ratings. While these ratings, in the form of digital word-of-mouth, provide a potentially useful source of information to guide consumer decision making, they may be subject to bias. Notably controversial are online consumer ratings in healthcare services, where the consequences of poor informat...

Information Behaviors of Children and Adolescents’ Interaction with Print and Digital Books

Background and Aim: This research is dedicated to assessing information behaviors of children and adolescents’ interaction with print and digital books. To reach this goal, digital books of Iranian virtual library for children and teenagers, have been used as sources of research. The purpose is assessing the influence of participants’ gender, age and graphical effects of books, with their prefe...

Information, Work and Value

The Role of Digital Libraries and Information Centers in E-Learning