The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The iSchool at The University of British Columbia, welcomes guest speaker Dr. Frauke Zeller at a meeting of the iSchool's Digital Information Interaction Group (DiiG).

Dr. Zeller is currently the Marie Curie Research Fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario,  and is member of the interdisciplinary NCE GRAND research project (Networks of Centres of Excellence in Graphics, Animation & New Media). She is speaking at the UBC iSchool next Tuesday, April 24 from 2-3 p.m., on the topic "Emotion Detection in News Media Reporting." Using a mixed-methods approach for the quantitative analysis of the use of emotional language in news reporting, Dr. Zeller will present initial results from a work-in-progress study she is conducting of articles published in addressing the Fukushima power plant accident in Japan last year.

DiiG at the UBC iSchool brings together researchers and students engaged in the study of human interaction with digital information objects, collections of digital media, and digital information systems. This shared interest in digital information interaction cuts across several fields within information science: knowledge organization, information retrieval, HCI, and information behaviour, as well as drawing upon related disciplines, from organizational behaviour and design to computer science and cognitive psychology.

 

Additionally, the iSchool is very pleased to announce the successful defense of the Ph.D. dissertation by student Talal Al-Haji on March 26. The title of his dissertation is: Exploring the Relationship between Research in Information Retrieval and Information Seeking Behavior, 1979-2008. The defence was held March 26. Having completed the required minor revisions, Talal will be conferred his doctorate at the May 25 Convocation ceremony at UBC.

 

 

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