Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Once undertaken primarily by museum professionals, the activity of curatorship has been popularized via the Web. Social media tools, such as YouTube playlists and Pinterest Web bulletin boards, enable users to curate a diverse range of materials for personal use and for broader publication. But what makes one set of “curated” items more interesting than another? In this paper, we show how findings from an initial humanistic inquiry led to a lab-based user experiment, and how combined insights from these studies have illuminated new research streams in both humanistic and design research modes.
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Feinberg, M. (2011). Personal expressive bibliography in the public space of cultural heritage institutions. Library Trends, 59(4), 588-606. doi:10.1353/lib.2011.0023. [Link]
Feinberg, M. (2010). Two kinds of evidence: How information systems form rhetorical arguments. Journal of Documentation, 66(4), 491-512. doi:10.1108/00220411011052920. [Link]
Feinberg, M. (2012). Synthetic ethos: The believability of collections at the intersection of classification and curation. The Information Society, 28(5), 329-339. doi:10.1080/01972243.2012.708709. [Link]
Feinberg, M. (2011). How information systems communicate as documents: The concept of authorial voice. Journal of Documentation, 67(6), 1015-1037. doi:10.1108/00220411111183573. [Link]
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