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Item Affinity Strings: Enterprise data for resource recommendations(Code4Lib Journal, 2008-12-15) Hanson, Cody; Nackerud, Shane; Jensen, Kristi'The University of Minnesota Libraries have created a MyLibrary portal, with databases and e-journals targeted to users, based on their affiliations. The University's enterprise authentication system provides an "affinity string", now used to personalize the MyLibrary portal. This affinity string automates discovery of a user's relationship to the University--describing a user’s academic department and degree program or position at the University. Affinity strings also provide the Libraries with an anonymized view of resource usage, allowing data collection that respects users' privacy and lays the groundwork for automated recommendation of relevant resources based on the practices and habits of their peers.'Item Branding a global identity: labor anxieties, conspicuous consumption, and middle class culture in Hyderabad, India.(2012-07) Aaftaab, Naheed GinaSince India's economic liberalization in the1980s, corporations in the U.S. and Europe have been outsourcing service and computer programming jobs to urban centers in India such as Hyderabad. In this period, numerous Indian national as well as international processes have gone into making Hyderabad a "global city," where information technology (IT) jobs in multinational corporations provide new kinds of cultural capital and prestige that are shaping global Indian middle class identities. In this dissertation, I critically analyze how global neoliberal discourses encounter established, local practices, changing the previous calculus of social relations as well as refashioning particular meanings of the "global." IT professionals have to adapt quickly to take advantage of opportunities in the new economy, while also conforming to social benchmarks of job security set by previous generations. IT professionals have found ways to "brand" themselves and their careers to find a more solid foothold in a transient, transnational job sector. The process of branding involves specific kinds of soft skill training, resume building, networking, and practices outside of the professional space to be recognized as a "quality IT professional." New urban spaces of consumption such as malls, theme parks, and consumer showrooms have become iconic sites of global consumerism that seek to cater to these global, IT professionals. The significance of these landscapes is dependent on everyday, repetitive actions and narratives about consumption that highlight the city's present international role. Consumer practices play a dual role, at once the site of claiming to be globally Indian and the site of accusatory assertions of the loss of Indian traditional culture and the incursion of Western frivolity. Instead of looking at "traditional" and "Western" as opposing influences, I investigate how these concepts are produced through consumer practices and narratives of consumption. Furthermore, processes of professionalization and consumerism are incorporated into a global, modern, Indian middle class and the politics of exclusion that they deploy; a politics that recognizes some as being in synch with global and national growth, and renders large sections of the population invisible or outside of the citizenry of the Indian nation.Item Designing to Increase Usability in Consumer Health Information: Providing Consumers with Information about Access and Financial Components of Care(2016-11) Long, SandraThe concept of improving health quality through consumer engagement is motivated by the growing cost of healthcare and allowing consumers to determine and control their own optimal care path. For consumers to utilize and engage with HIT, they must accept the design of the system. In this work, it is shown that a healthcare system designed to meet consumer’s needs, through reduced effort in accessing information, results in improved satisfaction and engagement. The healthcare system is an insurance call center that consumers use to find providers, understand payment for procedures, and get treatment decision support. It receives over 350,000 contacts per month and supports over 10 million consumers.Item The Future of the History of Computing(Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays (JOIE), 2013-12) Nelsen, R. ArvidThe history of information technology is not the history of how wires got into boxes. Technological developments are intertwined in the social fabric, and their story includes the direct experience of individuals and the impacts felt by communities. Computers were once thought to be relevant only to specialists, but people today are more aware of the reach of computers into their lives. Similarly, the history of computing has traditionally been the focus of specialists in technology, but a greater variety of scholarly researchers is now studying archival collections about computing. The Social Issues in Computing Collection at the University of Minnesota’s Charles Babbage Institute seeks to collect a wider array of perspectives on the industry and even to change the way people think about computing and archives.Item Information Technology Newsletter April 2005(2005-04) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter April 2006(2006-04) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter August 2005(2005-08) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter December 2004(2004-12) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter December 2005(2005-12) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter February 2005(2005-02) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter February 2006(2006-02) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter January 2005(2005-01) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter January 2006(2006-01) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter July 2005(2005-07) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter June 2005(2005-06) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter March 2005(2005-03) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter March 2006(2006-03) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter May 2005(2005-05) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter May 2006(2006-05) University of Minnesota: Office of Information TechnologyItem Information Technology Newsletter November 2005(2005-11) University of Minnesota: Office of Information Technology