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BILLY AUGUSTINE

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    • Information Practices in Contemporary Society
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Course: Information Practices in Contemporary Society

To prepare students from diverse scholarly and professional backgrounds to
investigate, analyze and critique the social, political and cultural tensions surrounding contemporary information practices. Topics discussed include; Information Practice: Theory and Application; Technology Mediation & Information Ethics; Information Infrastructures; Censorship & Filtering; Intellectual Property (Copyright); Online Privacy in Contemporary Societies; Information & Empowerment: Historically Situated Information Initiatives; Personal Information Management; Data: Big, Visualized and Analyzed; Career Planning & Professional Responsibilities; Emerging Topics (Making/Hacking, Fake News, Cyber Security)

Infographics for academic writings in SLAIS

I developed infographics to make a point and voice my concerns during a topic briefing exercise for the course LIBR508 (Information practices in contemporary society).



Information and Empowerment – seminar facilitation

Seminar facilitation / peer reviewing for the core course "Information Practices in Contemporary Society".



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