New vision or old stereotype: the image of the librarian on the World Wide Web - is the professional image changing in this digital medium?
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Duke, Yvonne
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- This study examines a sample of photographic images and art work depicting librarians in World Wide Web documents. The images were analyzed to ascertain whether the negative stereotype of the library profession was evident in this medium. Analysis of the WWW images revealed that positive and realistic portrayals were predominant, with only a fraction of the images reinforcing the stereotype. The study also found that depictions of librarians in Web documents were infrequent for both library and non-library sources. Factors contributing to this phenomenon were addressed, along with the underlying meanings behind the images in the sample.
- Date of publication
- April 1999
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Saye, Jerry D.
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Extent
- 55 p.
- Access right
- Open access
- Date uploaded
- December 10, 2010
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