Brittany Brannon

TL;DR: The Researching Students' Information Choices (RSIC) project as discussed by the authors examines and compares the judgments and perceptions of students as they select resources for science-related school inquiry projects, identifying students' perceptions and judgments related to the source and author/creator of three resources common to all participants included in Google search results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of the educational stage on the likelihood of attending to digital and human sources across four contexts: professional or personal, successful or struggled, and found that people at higher educational stages are more likely to attend to digital sources and less likely to attending to human sources.

TL;DR: This paper explored how students judge scientific news resources, as they might find through a Google search, and found that students appeared to focus on the organization that produced the news resource (i.e., source) when judging its credibility.

Abstract: This project has at the very least a dual purpose. It seeks to elaborate on uptake, applying to it theories from sociology, linguistics, history, and philosophy, and to illustrate the process of uptake in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and demonstrate the applicability of rhetorical concepts to literary texts by generating a reading of that novel. In Chapter 1, “Explaining Selection in Theory,” I offer two principles, habitus and narrative memory, to explain selection, which Anne Freadman claims is the central mechanism of uptake but does not thoroughly account for. In Chapter 2, “Exploring Selection in Literature,” I use the events of the first two chapters of North and South to explore the ways that habitus and narrative memory guide characters’ selections. Close attention to uptake in the novel reveals the ways that Margaret’s powerlessness makes the subtle power dynamics of communication central to her ability to

TL;DR: This panel will discuss how the concept of containers was developed and implemented in a multi‐institutional, IMLS‐grant‐funded research project and how panelists are currently deploying and planning to deploy this concept in their own practice.