info The Changing Face of Information Systems Research:A Longitudinal Study of Author Influence By Published On :: Full Article
info An Attention Economy Perspective on the Effectiveness of Incomplete Information By Published On :: Full Article
info A Model for Mandatory Use of Software Technologies: An Integrative Approach by Applying Multiple Levels of Abstraction of Informing Science By Published On :: Full Article
info Subjectivity Dispelled: Physical Views of Information and Informing By Published On :: Full Article
info Informing in the Flat, Rough World: Balancing Globalization Gone Awry By Published On :: Full Article
info Integrating the Visual Design Discipline with Information Systems Research and Practice By Published On :: Full Article
info Backbone or Helping Hand? On the Role of Information Systems and Non-systematic Information in Managers’ Work By Published On :: Full Article
info Promoting Relevance in IS Research: An Informing System for Design Science Research By Published On :: Full Article
info The Informing Science Institute: The Informing System of a Transdiscipline By Published On :: Full Article
info Towards an Information Sharing Pedagogy: A Case of Using Facebook in a Large First Year Class By Published On :: Full Article
info The Information Age Measurement Paradox: Collecting Too Much Data By Published On :: Full Article
info The Dual Micro/Macro Informing Role of Social Network Sites: Can Twitter Macro Messages Help Predict Stock Prices? By Published On :: Full Article
info Teaching IS to the Information Society using an “Informing Science” Perspective By Published On :: Full Article
info Informing Science and Andragogy: A Conceptual Scheme of Client-Side Barriers to Informing University Students By Published On :: Full Article
info Focus and Perspectivism in Viewing Information, Data, and Informing: Fundamental Distinctions By Published On :: Full Article
info Online Learning and Case Teaching: Implications in an Informing Systems Framework By Published On :: Full Article
info Meanings for Case Protagonists of the Informing Process Occurring During Case Production and Discussion: A Phenomenological Analysis By Published On :: Full Article
info The Role of Case Studies in Informing Systems: Introduction to the Special Series By Published On :: Full Article
info Evidence for Addressing the Unsolved through EdGe-ucating or Can Informing Science Promote Democratic Knowledge Production? By Published On :: Full Article
info Openness of Information-Communications Systems: The Rescue Tool for Preserving Information Age Heritage By Published On :: Full Article
info Exploring the Role of Communication Media in the Informing Science Model: An Information Technology Project Management Perspective By Published On :: Full Article
info A Bibliometric Study of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdis-cipline By Published On :: Full Article
info Culture, Complexity, and Informing: How Shared Beliefs Can Enhance Our Search for Fitness By Published On :: Full Article
info YouTube: An Effective Web 2.0 Informing Channel for Health Education to Prevent STDs By Published On :: Full Article
info Testing a Model of Users’ Web Risk Information Seeking Intention By Published On :: Full Article
info Conceptualization of Various and Conflicting Notions of Information By Published On :: Full Article
info Identifying the Knowledge Requirements of a New Project Entrant: An Informing Science Approach By Published On :: Full Article
info Think Process, Think in Time: Advancing Study of Informing Systems By Published On :: Full Article
info Information and Knowledge: Combining Justification, Truth, and Belief By Published On :: Full Article
info User Perceptions of Aesthetic Visual Design Variables within the Informing Environment: A Web-Based Experiment By Published On :: Full Article
info Decision Confidence, Information Usefulness, and Information Seeking Intention in the Presence of Disconfirming Information By Published On :: Full Article
info The Dynamics and Architecture of an Informing System By Published On :: 2015-10-20 The purpose of this investigation is to define the architecture of computer informing systems. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary, big-picture view of the cognition units which provide the foundation for informing systems. Among the findings are the following: informing systems should be designed for rigor and relevance with respect to the cognitive units (information), integrating its purpose and goal to achieve its expected utility; informing systems should also be designed for reasoning richness, informing modes, informing quality, and predicting informing biases and filters. Practical implications: A well-designed informing system should provide as an output a message and resonant change by reflecting information that triggers the client’s behavior. Social implication: The quest for the development of informing systems is not supported by Academia in practice; it is only supported by a close circle of early leaders of such systemic applications who sought to enhance the existing information systems which very often process data but do not inform as they should. Originality: This investigation, by providing an interdisciplinary and graphic modeling of informing channels and systems, indicates the vitality of these systems and their potential to create better decision-making in order to solve problems and sustain organizations and civilization. Full Article
info The Seven Deadly Tensions of Health-Related Human Information Behavior By Published On :: 2015-08-31 Tensions are a ubiquitous feature of social life and are manifested in a number of particular forms: contradictory logics, competing demands, clashes of ideas, contradictions, dialectics, irony, paradoxes, and/or dilemmas. This essay aims to explore in detail tensions surrounding seven common findings of the information seeking literature relating to: interpersonal communication, accessibility, level of skill, individual preferences, psychological limits, inertia, and costs. Our incomplete understanding of these tensions can lead us to suggest resolutions that do not recognize their underlying dualities. Human information behavior stands at the intersection of many important theoretical and policy issues (e.g., personalized medicine). Policy makers need to be more attuned to these basic tensions of information seeking recognizing the real human limits they represent to informing the public. So, even if you build a great information system, people will not necessarily use it because of the force of these underlying tensions. While rationality rules systems, irrationality rules people. The proliferation of navigator roles over the last several years is actually a hopeful sign: recognition that people need a human interface to inform them about our ever more complex health care systems. Full Article
info Informing Systems as the Transformers of Information Wave into Virtual Civilization and Their Ethics Question By Published On :: 2015-06-05 The purpose of this investigation is to define the central contents and issues of the impact of informing systems on the rise and development of Virtual Civilization. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary big-picture view of the Virtual Civilization’s elements of development and their interdependency. Among the findings are: Virtual Civilization has infrastructural characteristics, a world-wide unlimited, socially constructed work and leisure space in cyberspace, and it can last centuries/millennia - as long as informing systems are operational. Practical implications: The mission of Virtual Civilization is to control the public policy of real civilizations in order to secure the common good in real societies. Social implication: The quest for the common good by virtual society may limit or even replace representative democracy by direct democracy which, while positively solving some problems, may eventually trigger permanent political chaos in real civilizations. Originality: This investigation, by providing an interdisciplinary and civilizational approach at the big-picture level defined the ethics question of the role of informing systems in the development of Virtual Civilization. Full Article
info Putting Personal Knowledge Management under the Macroscope of Informing Science By Published On :: 2015-08-02 The paper introduces a novel Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) concept and prototype system. The system’s objective is to aid life-long-learning, resourcefulness, creativity, and teamwork of individuals throughout their academic and professional life and as contributors and beneficiaries of organizational and societal performance. Such a scope offers appealing and viable opportunities for stakeholders in the educational, professional, and developmental context. To further validate the underlying PKM application design, the systems thinking techniques of the transdiscipline of Informing Science (IS) are employed. By applying Cohen’s IS-Framework, Leavitt’s Diamond Model, the IS-Meta Approach, and Gill’s and Murphy’s Three Dimensions of Design Task Complexity, the more specific KM models and methodologies central to the PKMS concept are aligned, introduced, and visualized. The extent of this introduction offers an essential overview, which can be deepened and broadened by using the cited URL and DOI links pointing to the available resources of the author’s prior publications. The paper emphasizes the differences of the proposed meme-based PKM System compared to its traditional organizational document-centric counterparts as well as its inherent complementing synergies. As a result, it shows how the system is closing in on Vannevar Bush’s still unfulfilled vison of the ‘Memex’, an as-close-as-it-gets imaginary ancestor celebrating its 70th anniversary as an inspiring idea never realized. It also addresses the scenario recently put forward by Levy which foresees a decentralizing revolution of knowledge management that gives more power and autonomy to individuals and self-organized groups. Accordingly, it also touches on the PKM potential in terms of Kuhn’s Scientific Revolutions and Disruptive Innovations. Full Article
info Information Gatekeepers – Aren't We All? By Published On :: 2015-08-02 In today’s knowledge environment, individuals and groups who gather relevant information about the organization’s external environment and distribute that information for use by their colleagues receive increasing attention and are viewed with great importance. These individuals have been named Information Gatekeepers. Thus far, researchers have not established a unanimous and interdisciplinary definition regarding the human information gatekeeper. Nonetheless, a recurrent theme in previous papers regards gatekeepers as a select few throughout the organization. This approach creates two kinds of employees based on a specific set of criteria – those who are gatekeepers and those who are not. The main goal of this research is to examine whether gate keeping is an individual attribute that exists or does not exist within the organization, or whether gate keeping is a continuous attribute that exists within every member and throughout the organization in varying intensity subject to differences in personal characteristics and other factors. We find that evidence to the existence of latter approach is significant and suggest practical recommendations that arise from these findings. Full Article