Libby Hemphill on The Information Animal Podcast

Dr. Libby Hemphill from the University of Michigan joins The Information Animal podcast to discuss the importance of information to humans and society, and how Information Science can help us understand these relationships.The Information Animal Podcast draws on ideas from a book of the same name, exploring modern and historic information ecosystems. This limited series covers concepts like information competition and how an emerging field of information ecology can help us understand the human relationship to the modern information environment. The series is hosted by Dr. Alicia Wanless, who is the director of the Information Environment Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which aims to foster evidence-based policymaking for the governance of national information ecosystems. Alicia is the author of The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality.Watch past episodes.