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09:30 Tea and Coffee, Registration

 

10:00 Chair's Introduction: Professor Michael Moss, Faculty of Arts Research Professor, Humanities Advance Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow

 

10.10: Presentation One: The importance of the digital consumer .

Why is there a pressing need to study the digital consumer? What are the risks for the information professions in failing to do so?

Professor David Nicholas, Director, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies and UCL Centre for Publishing

10:25 Presentation Two: The e-shopper: behaviour and key drivers

An examination of the growth of eShoppers and their behaviour, likes, dislikes, and expectations to gain a better understanding of the “information ‘shopper”.

Chris Russell, Associate, eDigitalResearch

 

11:05 Discussion session

 

11:20 Refreshment Break

 

11:40 Presentation Three: The Digital Information marketplace and its economics .

Why are the business models that have long supported the information industry by creating an audience and methods of delivery undergoing seismic change?

Richard Withey, Global Director, Interactive Media, Independent News & Media Plc

12:15 Presentation Four: The Psychology of the Digital Information Consumer

What are the rules of online interpersonal and human-computer interaction?

Adam Joinson, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at the School of Management, University of Bath

 

12.45: Discussion session

 

13:00 Lunch

 

14:00: Presentation Five: Information seeking behaviour

What are the profiles and information-seeking behaviours of digital information consumers? How do they relate to scholarly outcomes?

Professor David Nicholas, Director, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies and UCL Centre for Publishing


14:35 Presentation Five: The Google Generation

A look at the scholar of the future and debunking some myths that have grown up around the so-called “Google Generation”

Dr Ian Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL, and a founding member of the UCL Centre for Publishing and CIBER research group.

 

15:05 Refreshment Break

 

15:25: Presentation Six: Trends in Digital Information Consumption and the Future

Where might current developments take us?

Dr Ian Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL, and a founding member of the UCL Centre for Publishing and CIBER research group.

 

15:55 Expert round-up of the day's discussions

Professor Michael Moss, Faculty of Arts Research Professor, Humanities Advance Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow

 

16.05 Open Forum Discussion

 

16.20 Executive Briefing closes

 

CILIP retains the right to change the programme and speakers to reflect the latest developments.


Organised by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

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