Information-centered research for large-scale analyses of new information sources

Authors:
Mike Thelwall;Paul Wouters;Jenny Fry
Affiliations:
School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK;Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2008

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Abstract

New mass publishing genres, such as blogs and personal home pages provide a rich source of social data that is yet to be fully exploited by the social sciences and humanities. Information-centered research (ICR) not only provides a genuinely new and useful information science research model for this type of data, but can also contribute to the emerging e-research infrastructure. Nevertheless, ICR should not be conducted on a purely abstract level, but should relate to potentially relevant problems. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.