Jonathan Foster

Jonathan Foster is a lecturer in Information Management at the Information School, University of Sheffield. Prior to this he worked in a London-based electronic publishing house. His research interests are in information management and educational informatics. He has worked on a number of research projects in the areas of computer based collaborative group work and learning. He is currently investigating the implementation and evaluation of interactive archives for new media artworks.

Publications

Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management: Design, Implementation, and Use
Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management: Design, Implementation, and Use
Angela Lin, Jonathan Foster, Paul Scifleet. © 2013. 256 pages.
Businesses continue to design and implement a variety of information systems that facilitate the creation, aggregation, and provision of product-related information in order to...
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) and Its Influence on Book Purchasing Decisions: A Study of the Anobii Digital Bookshelf
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) and Its Influence on Book Purchasing Decisions: A Study of the Anobii Digital Bookshelf
Angela Lin, Jonathan Foster. © 2013. 17 pages.
Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) is playing an increasingly influential role in informing consumers’ purchasing decisions. Previously confined to seeking information from a small...
What Do Chinese Fashion Consumers Talk about when They Talk about Fashion?: Exploring Diffusion of Innovation in a Networked Information Economy
What Do Chinese Fashion Consumers Talk about when They Talk about Fashion?: Exploring Diffusion of Innovation in a Networked Information Economy
Jonathan Foster. © 2013. 15 pages.
This chapter explores the interaction between fashion innovation and a networked information economy. One of the distinctive features of the latter is the prominence of a...
Valorising the Cultural Content of the Commodity: On Immaterial Labour and New Forms of Informational Work
Valorising the Cultural Content of the Commodity: On Immaterial Labour and New Forms of Informational Work
Jonathan Foster. © 2013. 13 pages.
A change in the informational content of the commodity, along with the emergence of a decentralized networked communications environment, has given rise to new forms of...
Consumer Information Sharing
Consumer Information Sharing
Jonathan Foster, Angela Lin. © 2011. 7 pages.
One area of e-business that has visibly changed in the last few years is the capacity of the Internet for supporting consumer-to-consumer information sharing. By using a variety...
Collaborative Information Behavior: User Engagement and Communication Sharing
Collaborative Information Behavior: User Engagement and Communication Sharing
Jonathan Foster. © 2010. 304 pages.
Although it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to regularly collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information, a definitive work...
Consumer Information Sharing
Consumer Information Sharing
Jonathan Foster, Angela Lin. © 2010. 7 pages.
One area of e-business that has visibly changed in the last few years is the capacity of the Internet for supporting consumer-to-consumer information sharing. By using a variety...
Collaboration as Co-Constructed Discourse: Developing a Coding Guide for the Analysis of Peer Talk During Educational Information Seeking
Collaboration as Co-Constructed Discourse: Developing a Coding Guide for the Analysis of Peer Talk During Educational Information Seeking
Jonathan Foster. © 2010. 28 pages.
This chapter presents a coding guide for the analysis of peer talk during educational information seeking. The guide is an outcome of a structuring content analysis of learners’...
Collaborative E-Business Planning: Developing An Enterprise Learning Tool For Information Management And Information Systems Curricula
Collaborative E-Business Planning: Developing An Enterprise Learning Tool For Information Management And Information Systems Curricula
Jonathan Foster, Angela Lin. © 2004. 16 pages.
This paper presents an evaluation of a collaborative e-business planning assignment implemented on two e-business and e-commerce modules: an undergraduate Information Management...