Lmst

#humanInformationBehavior

that thing where you use a discussion post about the #berrypicking paper to complain for 1200 words about chasing all over Madrid trying to find your daughter a riding helmet #humanInformationBehavior #searchStrategies

Partial screenshot of discussion board post. A sample of the text, within Mastodon's alt-text character limits:

‘This was enough information to allow me to reconceptualize my query, just as Bates predicted (1989/2016, p. 198). …I made some online searches on the subject of riding helmets and what differentiates them from other sorts of sports helmets (largely: the amount of the head covered, the fall distance tested, and, ideally, imperviousness to hooves)…

‘It was also enough information to identify a potentially useful reference, viz., El Corté Ingles. The nearest branch… didn’t say anything about riding (hípica) in the list of departments on their website, but as I’d had previous experience of mismatches between the website and the reality on the shop floor… the lead seemed worth pursuing—a strategy that might be considered vaguely analogous to Bates’ “journal run” or “area scanning” (p. 201), insofar as almost everything else we’d needed to get the kids for school, we’d found at this El Corté Ingles branch, including some sports equipment.

‘A clerk in the school uniform area on the third floor told us, with confidence, that we’d find riding gear among the sports equipment on the seventh floor. This proved not to be the case, but a clerk on the seventh floor told us, again with confidence, that we’d find it at the Castellana branch, on the other side of town. (Perhaps analogous to Bates’ “footnote chasing”, p. 201?)’

goddamnit
here I go again

#backToSchool
#humanInformationBehavior

1. Snapshot of text from a Canvas discussion board assignment: "Be sure to make your own substantive post responding to the materials (300-500 words)"

2. Snapshot of a word processor status bar: "Words: 790"

Some more specific areas of interest: #Buildings, #Cities & #Urbanism, #HumanInformationBehavior, #HumanOsteoarchaeology & #FuneraryArchaeology, #IronAgeBritain, #RomanArchaeology, #Games & #Gaming as a way of interacting with the past, #Gramsci, #StuartHall, #CulturalStudies. Slowly developing interest in US archaeology & history.

Phew. I think that that's it (for now).

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