Identify an information environment of your choice and write an essay to address the following questions:

• What should be your role within this environment?
• How can the principles of information organization and representation help you in performing this role?
• What are the challenges facing you in performing the role? How will you address these challenges?

Before we could answer the question above we should define some terms to instantiate our answers.
Information Environment
There is now a critical mass of digital information resources that can be used to support researchers, learners, teachers and administrators in their work and study. The production of information is on the increase and ways to deal with this effectively are required. There is the need to ensure that quality information isn’t lost amongst the masses of digital data created everyday. If we can continue to improve the management, interrogation and serving of ‘quality’ information there is huge potential to enhance knowledge creation across learning and research communities. The aim of the Information Environment is to help provide convenient access to resources for research and learning through the use of resource discovery and resource management tools and the development of better services and practice. The Information Environment aims to allow discovery, access and use of resources for research and learning irrespective of their location.

Fundamental to this research is an understanding of end users and their applications for content,
or the information they require to support research, teaching, and learning. The model on the
following page illustrates a cohesive view of the demand and supply sides of the information
market.
End users, based on their specific functional roles and their institutional affiliations, solve
problems and make decisions that require information. As functional roles and needs change,
users apply and use information differently, which requires providers of information (libraries,
publishers, and other intermediaries) to create and deploy content and services based on a clear
understanding of the needs of the demand side of the information equation.
The higher education market consists of academic institutions of varying types, sizes, and
geographies. There are research and doctoral universities, comprehensive universities, regional
universities, general and liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. Throughout the education
market, students and faculty tend to behave in the context of their chosen segment of the
education environment and their functional role and discipline. While there are parallels in the
needs of users across types of academic institutions, there are important differences. An
understanding of the information needs, applications and uses at each intersection of Functional



What should be your role within this environment?

The Information Environment aims to allow discovery, access and use of resources for research and learning irrespective of their location. The world of the internet has a wide scope that would help us gather information and make it an data to supply information to the other people, As a student my role to this environment is to continue cooperating with this environment to improve the management, interrogation and serving of ‘quality’ information there is huge potential to enhance knowledge creation across learning and research communities. I could gather some information in my research and soon I could imply some data in the net for supporting the people accessing in information environment for their work and study. But then some information in this environment doesn’t provide convenient access to resources for research and learning but then through the use of resource discovery and resource management tools and the development of better services and practice .
Information Representation
In this paper, I propose principles for good representation of information applicable to six categories of communication: speeches, written texts, presentations, Web pages, movies/videos, and source programs. For each of these categories, many tips have been proposed for creating good information representation. The meaning of good information representation can be interpreted in two ways: as attractive or impressive, and effective in conveying facts and opinions. Although these two ways cannot be said to be independent of each other, I focus here only the latter. The need to establish explicit principles for good information representation is urgent, because information must be transmitted accurately (without loss of fidelity). Bad information representation is proliferating at a rapid pace because of the Internet.

Information Organization
Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private
Mass media
denotes a section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. However, some forms of mass media such as books and manuscripts had already been in use centuries. The term public media has a similar meaning: it is the sum of the public mass distributors of news and entertainment across media such as newspapers, television, radio, broadcasting, which may require union membership in some large markets such as Newspaper Guild, AFTRA, & text publishers.
Mass media includes Internet media (like blogs, message boards, podcasts, and video sharing) because individuals now have a means to exposure that is comparable in scale to that previously restricted to a select group of mass media producers. The communications audience has been viewed by some commentators as forming a mass society with special characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render it especially susceptible to the influence of modern mass-media techniques such as advertising and propaganda. The term "MSM" or "mainstream media" has been widely used in the blogosphere in discussion of the mass media and media bias.


How can the principles of information organization and representation help you in performing this role?

By these principles ,it could help me for the good speeches, written texts, presentations, Web pages, movies/videos, and source programs that I would create . It could help me to state acquired information in a right way of writing.
These are the point of view to make our works better, and can be satisfactory information to held. As of now ,it is not easy to write information to our blog because of the wrong grammars, not reliable information, and even attractive blog ,we can’t provide. So ,in these principle we can enhance our speeches , , written texts, presentations, Web pages, movies/videos, and source programs to be a good supplier of information environment soon.

What are the challenges facing you in performing the role? How will you address these challenges?

I have many challenges in performing these role since the capability our works are involved .As
I have said a while a go the internet has a wide scope in getting information and when I’m the one who will give information could I assure that these are reliable for supporting people .
I will address these challenges by myself with the help of my classmates, teachers since these are some people could help and specially me, with the efforts and practices ,and enjoying what I’m doing I could easy perform these role.

References:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/informationenvironment.aspx
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/IPCC.2009.5208725

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