Dr Jonathan Foster

Lecturer in Information Management

MSc Information Systems, M.Ed. Teaching and Learning for University Lecturers, PhD Information Studies

Teaching activities

My specialist teaching is in the field of information management with a particular emphasis on the digital economy. In addition, I teach on a range of modules related to information systems and educational informatics. I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in these areas. My teaching style is research-led, typically comprising a combination of lectures, student seminars, tutorials and computer lab practical sessions.

I teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including:

• INF312 Information Management in the Digital Economy
• INF333 Information Management and Strategy
• INF6320 Information Systems in Organisations
• INF6003 E-Business and E-Commerce
• INF6011 Educational Informatics

Research interests

Computer-based collaborative group work and learning; information and knowledge management and strategy; digital economy.

Selected publications

Lin, A., Foster, J., Scifleet, P. eds., (2012) Consumer Information Systems: Design, Implementation and Use. Hershey (PA): IGI Global.

Fan, Y. & Foster, J. (2012). “What do Chinese Consumers Talk About When They Talk About Fashion? Exploring Diffusion of Innovation in a Networked Information Economy. In: Lin, A., Foster, J. & Scifleet, P., eds., Consumer Information Systems: Design, Implementation and Use. Hershey (PA): IGI Global.

Lin, A. & Foster, J. (2012). “Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and its influence on book purchasing decisions: A study of the Anobii digital
bookshelf”. In: Lin, A., Foster, J. & Scifleet, P., eds., Consumer Information Systems: Design, Implementation and Use. Hershey (PA): IGI Global.

Foster, J. ed. (2010). Collaborative Infomation Behavior: User Engagement and Communication Sharing. Hershey (PA): IGI Global.   

Foster, J. (2010). “Collaboration as co-constructed discourse: developing a coding guide for the analysis of peer talk during educational information seeking”. In: Foster, J. (ed.) Collaborative Information Behavior, 219-246.

Foster, J., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Rowland, D., & Giannachi, G. (2010). “Riders Have Spoken: A Practice-Based Approach to Developing
an Information Architecture for the Archiving and Replay of a Mixed Reality Performance”, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 6 (2), 209-223.

Giannachi, G., Rowland, D., Benford, S., Foster, J. & Chamberlain, A. (2010). “Blast Theory’s Rider Spoke, Its Documentation and the Making of its Replay Archive”, Contemporary Theatre Review, 20 (3), 353-367.

Foster, J., Lin, A., & Edmonds, E. (2010). “We Don’t Do Google, We Do Massive Attacks: Notes on Collaborative R&D Collaborations”, Leonardo, 43 (1), 94-95.

Chamberlain, A., Rowland, D., Foster, J. & Giannachi, G. (2010). “Riders Have Spoken: Replaying and Archiving Pervasive Performances”, Leonardo, 43 (1), 90-91.

Foster, J. (2009) “Understanding interaction in information seeking and use as a discourse: a dialogic approach”, Journal of Documentation, 65 (1), 83-105.

Foster, J. & Lin, A. (2007). “Approaches to studying and students’ use of a computer supported learning environment”, Education for Information, 25 (3-4), 155-168.

Foster, J. (2006). “Collaborative information seeking and retrieval”. In: Cronin, B. (ed.) Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2006, 329-356. Medford (NJ): Information Today.