Description: Seminar, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 291A. Topics include information and evidence -- record-keeping and memory-making, personal and community identity, accountability and trust. Information and design -- design and implementation of information systems and services, information aesthetics. Information retrieval and knowledge organization. Information seeking, access, and use -- contexts, techniques, needs, barriers. Information and power -- groups, ideologies, identities, structures. Information and value -- information ethics, evaluation of information services. Information policy and law -- processes, institutions, players, stakes. Information institutions and professions -- domains, ecologies, cultures, communities. Economics, geography, history, philosophy, politics, sociology of information. Letter grading.

Units: 0.0