We describe an “expert coach” for students’ collaborative information seeking and knowledge construction. This coach compares an expert’s prespecification of the evidential relations among “snippets” of HTML-based text with the current state of a diagram constructed by students in the course of collaborative scientific inquiry. The expert advises the students by pointing out information that ma...

The Internet has become an important and preferred source of health information. Although the literature has highlighted several key predictors that influence an individual's online health information seeking behavior, insufficient attention has been paid to the changes in the predictors' roles and effects over time. This study explores and compares the effects that specific predictors had on o...

In understanding a person’s information seeking behavior and choice of information sources, it becomes very important to understand the context surrounding the search. This context gives rise to the information need and leads a person to look for information. Research in information seeking behavior, while concentrating on systemand-person centric research, has, so far, left out studying how in...

This discussion aims to provide the occasional medical expert witness with background knowledge of the adversarial court system and the role of the medical expert witness within it. The parallel evolution of the adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems has been more out of tradition rather than any systematic review of the effectiveness of one system or the other. Both legal systems have the...

In this article, we argue for a pragmatic understanding of the role news media and journalism not as truth keepers but mediators in public sphere. current debate on ‘post-truth politics’ emphasis is often put formulation ethical guidelines legal solutions to regain control over ‘unbound journalism’ or re-establish media. Instead holding journalists individually accountable spread fake news, con...

Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Girls (the ‘MMIWG Inquiry’) is the latest truth-seeking body to grapple with legacies of violence against indigenous peoples in settler colonial states. While name, Murdered, ostensibly limits its scope application bodily integrity crimes, MMIWG instead embraced an expansive understanding encompass gross violations cultural ri...

A majority of truth-seeking voters wants to choose the alternative that better matches state world, but may disagree on which is best match due private information. When we have an arbitrary number alternatives and sophisticated partisan exist in electorate, electing correct challenging. We show multi-round runoff voting achieves asymptotically full-information equivalence. That is, when societ...

The present article is based on the premise that process of neoliberalization Brazilian society not only top-down, but conjugates in hybrids form with governmental regimes were born peripheries: Pentecostalism and militias. In its authoritarian phase from rise extreme right implementation Bolsonaro government, these devices occupy center state. By focusing Pentecostalism, text proposes a geneal...