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Overview

David Bawden is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research work spans the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Subfields contributing to their work include communication, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, information systems and management, and library and information sciences.

Their academic contributions encompass various topics, notably misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, personal information management and user behavior, library science and administration, privacy, security, and data protection, knowledge management and technology, and innovation, sustainability, and human-machine systems.

Recent publications reflect the range and depth of their research. Notable papers include:

  • "Information Overload: An Introduction" (2020), published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • ""The dearest of our possessions": Applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacy" (2020), published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • "Still Minding the Gap? Reflecting on Transitions between Concepts of Information in Varied Domains" (2020), published in Information
  • "Information and design: book symposium on Luciano Floridi's The Logic of Information" (2020), published in the Journal of Documentation
  • "Orthogonality, dependency, and music: An exploration of the relationships between music facets" (2020), published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Their frequent co-authors include Lyn Robinson, Luciano Floridi, Tim Gorichanaz, Jonathan Furner, and Lai Ma.

Bawden has published books with noted publishers including Facet eBooks and White Rose University Consortium. These include:

  • Introduction to Information Science (2022), published by Facet eBooks
  • Open access in theory and practice: the theory-practice relationship and openness (2020), published by White Rose University Consortium

Their work has appeared frequently in academic venues such as the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Endocrine Abstracts, Knjižnica revija za področje bibliotekarstva in informacijske znanosti, Information, and the Journal of Documentation.

Best Publications

  • The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies

    David Bawden;Lyn Robinson

  • Origins and Concepts of Digital Literacy

    David Bawden

  • Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual

    Jean Aitchison;Alan Gilchrist;David Bawden

  • Revisión de los conceptos de alfabetización informacional y alfabetización digital

    David Bawden

  • Introduction to Information Science

    David Bawden;Lyn Robinson

  • Perspectives on information overload

    David Bawden;Clive Holtham;Nigel Courtney

  • Is google enough? comparison of an internet search engine with academic library resources

    Jan Brophy;David Bawden

  • Information systems and the stimulation of creativity

    D Bawden

  • Implementation of nearest-neighbor searching in an online chemical structure search system

    P Willett;V Winterman;D Bawden

  • Information Overload: An Introduction

    David Bawden;Lyn Robinson

  • User-Oriented Evaluation of Information Systems and Services

    David Bawden

  • Conceptions of “information poverty” in LIS: a discourse analysis

    Jutta Haider;David Bawden

  • What kind of resource is information

    J. J. Eaton;D. Bawden

  • Implementation of nonhierarchic cluster analysis methods in chemical information structure search

    P Willett;V Winterman;D Bawden

  • Users, user studies and human information behaviour: A three‐decade perspective on Tom Wilson's “On user studies and information needs”

    David Bawden

  • Memory Practices in the Sciences

    David Bawden

  • Library and information science research

    David Bawden

  • Managing the paradox: the valuation of knowledge and knowledge management

    Penelope A. Yates-Mercer;David Bawden

  • Digital Libraries: Assumptions and Concepts

    David Bawden;Ian Rowlands

  • Promoting literacy in a digital age: approaches to training for information literacy

    David Bawden;Lyn Robinson

  • Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach

    David Bawden

  • What kind of resource is information

    David Bawden

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Rowlands
Ian Rowlands University College London
Peter Willett
Peter Willett University of Sheffield
Pertti Vakkari
Pertti Vakkari Tampere University
Luciano Floridi
Luciano Floridi University of Oxford

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