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The Information Animal

A podcast exploring the human relationship to the information environment drawing on the book of the same name.

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    David Scales on The Information Animal Podcast

    Dr. David Scales from Weill Cornell Medicine 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.David is an internal medicine hospitalist whose training in sociology, epidemiology, and medicine grounds his work on how structural factors shape health information environments. In addition to serving on the board of Questscope and providing medical assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan, he co-founded a CHW program in the Levant, now serving as its research and program advisor.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: HumanThe Information Animal podcast to discuss the importance of information to humans and society, and how Information Science can help us understand these relationships.

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    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.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A podcast exploring the human relationship to the information environment drawing on the book of the same name.

HOSTED BY

Alicia Wanless

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A podcast exploring the human relationship to the information environment drawing on the book of the same name.

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The Information Animal is created and hosted by Alicia Wanless.
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