Dissertation
Finding family facts in the digital age: family history research and production literacies
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Drexel University
Jun 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-7411
Abstract
This study examines the online information behaviors of experienced and novice family history researchers, though the lens of accuracy and an increasingly digital research and production environment. It presents a model of the information behaviors of family history researchers, as well as a literacies framework, which visualizes the skills and knowledge needed to conduct accurate family history research and produce accurate family histories in the digital age.
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- Title
- Finding family facts in the digital age
- Creators
- Heather Lynn Willever-Farr - DU
- Contributors
- Andrea Forte (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- ix, 281 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics) (2013-2026); College of Computing and Informatics (2013-2026); Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 7411; 991014632212004721