Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Fiona Enright

Information Logs; Canary in a Coal Mine

"The study of information behaviour is commonly regarded as the examination of information-seeking and information-retrieval behaviour. The former being the process through which one searches for information, utilizing digital and/or analogue means, and the latter being the procedures involved with accessing and navigating information systems (IS), which encompass a vast array of formal systems devised to gather, organize and distribute information. In the contemporary context, the forms of IS that one most often uses to access and navigate information are computer information systems (CIS). Some of the most prominent and well- known examples of this are search engines, such as Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. Virtually every contemporary IS involves some form of technology, with CIS has becoming the standard for accessing, gathering, and utilizing information for academic, professional, and personal use." Fiona Enright 'Section I' The Human Element: Information, Knowledge and Art in the Digital Episteme, 2021