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Transforming Digital Worlds

13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Sheffield, UK, March 25-28, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10766)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): iConference: International Conference on Information

Conference proceedings info: iConference 2018.

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Table of contents (82 papers)

  1. Communication Studies and Online Communities

    1. An Upward Spiral Model: Bridging and Deepening Digital Divide

      • Biyang Yu, Ana Ndumu, Lorraine Mon, Zhenjia Fan
      Pages 139-144
  2. Mobile Information and Cloud Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
    2. ‘What Data?’ Records and Data Policy Coordination During Presidential Transitions

      • Kristin B. Cornelius, Irene V. Pasquetto
      Pages 155-163
    3. How to Assess Cloud Service Contracts?

      • Marie Demoulin, Jessica Bushey, Robert McLelland
      Pages 175-184
    4. Research on Fine-Grained Linked Data Creation for Digital Library Resources

      • Jing Huang, Zhongyi Wang, Chunya Li
      Pages 185-194
    5. Digital Nomads Beyond the Buzzword: Defining Digital Nomadic Work and Use of Digital Technologies

      • Caleece Nash, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Will Sutherland, Gabriela Phillips
      Pages 207-217
    6. Adoption of Cloud Computing in Hotel Industry as Emerging Services

      • Elaine Vella, Longzhi Yang, Naveed Anwar, Nanlin Jin
      Pages 218-228
    7. Privacy Attitudes and Data Valuation Among Fitness Tracker Users

      • Jessica Vitak, Yuting Liao, Priya Kumar, Michael Zimmer, Katherine Kritikos
      Pages 229-239
  3. Data Mining and Data Analytics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
    2. Data Retrieval = Text Retrieval?

      • Maryam Bugaje, Gobinda Chowdhury
      Pages 253-262
    3. Information and Knowledge Based Conceptual Study of 2008 Financial Crisis

      • Josep Cobarsí-Morales, Agustí Canals
      Pages 263-271
    4. Data Visualization Revisited

      • Kai A. Olsen, James G. Williams, Michael B. Spring
      Pages 292-302
    5. Mining Open Government Data Used in Scientific Research

      • An Yan, Nicholas Weber
      Pages 303-313
  4. Information Retrieval

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 315-315

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International  Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018, held in Sheffield, UK, in March 2018.
The 42 full papers and 40 short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The papers address topics such as social media; communication studies and online communities; mobile information and cloud computing; data mining and data analytics; information retrieval; information behaviour and digital literacy; digital curation; and information education and libraries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Gobinda Chowdhury, Julie McLeod

  • University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Val Gillet, Peter Willett

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