Infophilia, A Positive Psychology of Information: An Introduction, 15 September 2023 - 05 April 2024
Channel: Anita Coleman
Date: 2024-04-07

Infophilia, A Positive Psychology of Information for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Short video defines infophilia, introduces the connection to dopamine and other 2023/24 essays. 

Infophilia is a weekly, reader supported publication, written by Dr. Anita Coleman.The goal is to help information sciences research and empower well-being. For more about these ideas, subscribe.

Infophilia is a synthesizing review, bringing together the threads of scientific research about the biology of love, contemporary social, technological, economic movements, libraries, museums, and emerging findings from information behaviours, human computer interaction, including humane information technology, cultural, literary, media-communications, and science-technology studies, to offer a positive and prosocial psychology of information. 

The essays are meticulously researched. They have personal stories and detailed Notes with references. Topics covered, 09/23 - 03/24,  include: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Wombs, Authenticity, Bibliophilia, Bibliotherapy, Biophilia, Connectomics, Copyright, Creativity, Creator Economy, Culture, Disinformation, Diversity in Libraries, Eustress, Fiction, Happiness Metrics,  Imagined Communities, Innovation, Intellectual Freedom; Language, Literature, Marsh’s Library, Misinformation, New Library Building Design, OpenAI, Participatory Fakery, Polymathy, Public Domain, Reading, Selective Exposure; Self Censorship; Self Driving Cars, Sustainable Resilience, Technophilia, Technostress, Truth, Truthiness, Well-being, Wicked Problems, Wickiality, and more! 

Authors cited in essays include: Benedict Arnold (print culture, literary forms, travel studies); William Badke (Information Literacy); Roland Barthes (Death of the Author); Octavia Butler (1947-2006, AfroFuturism); Anita Coleman (Digital libraries, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility in Libraries); Kathleen de la Peña McCook (Public Libraries, Wikipedia); Ruth Cowan (Technoscience); Madhav Gadgil (Biophilia); Clifford Geertz (Culture); Edward Hall (Beyond Culture); Ted Nelson (Hypertext, Hypermedia); Amartya Sen (Development as Freedom); Sebastian Seung ('You are your connectome', Connectomics); Linda Smith (Renaissance scholar of Library and Information Sciences, Festschrift); Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Decolonising the Mind and The Perfect Nine); Richard Stallman (Free software / Open Source Software); Walter Scheirer  (Participatory Fakery on the Internet); Ben Shestakofsky (Innovator’s Dilemma, Venture Capitalism).

Well-being: United Nations; World Happiness Report; Horst Rittel (wicked problems), scholars who have solved significant problems with this approach: Jeffrey Braithwaite (Healthcare and Climate Change), Rita Charon (Narrative Medicine / Medical Education), Jeff Conklin (Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems), Jane Fulton Suri (Design thinking), and Atul Gawande (Access to Healthcare), Dana Meadows (The Limits to Growth). 

Dr. Anita Coleman is an adjunct faculty at her PhD alma mater School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois. She has been a tenured academic librarian and LIS/iSchool faculty, library director, nonprofit publisher, and consultant. Her work has been published in leading journals like Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Knowledge Organization, Journal of Documentation, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Library Resources and Technical Services, and others and presented at the annual conferences of the American Association of Information Science & Technology,  American Medical Informatics Association, American Theological Libraries Association, Association for Library and Information Science Education, European Conference on Digital Libraries, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, International Society for Knowledge Organization, and IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress and more. 

In 2007, Dr. Coleman was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal for creating the first open access archive for the multi-disciplinary information sciences, dLIST, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. dLIST shaped and transformed scholarly communication in libraries. In 2015, Dr. Coleman founded the Anti-racism Digital Library and in 2020 the Library of Congress selected it for their permanent web archiving program. In 2018, her collaborative book Rise, Shine, Be Woke was published. It documents the lives of diverse Americans. 

Citation: Coleman, A.S. (2024, April 6). Infophilia, a positive psychology of information: An Introduction, 15 September 2023 - 05 April 2024 [Video file]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/M_VfPLJ49jI 

Cite individual Infophilia articles as: Coleman, A. S. (2023). Infophilia and the Dopamine Connection. Infophilia, Vol. 1, Issue 1, September 15. infophilia.substack.com.

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