Yazdan Mansourian
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Assistant Professor |
| Location | Australia |
| Introduction | Yazdan Mansourian is lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He received his PhD in Information Science from The University of Sheffield (2003 to 2006). The title of his thesis was “Information Visibility on the Web and Conceptions of Success and Failure in Web Searching”. Yazdan has an MA degree in LIS from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (1998-2001) and a BSc degree in Agricultural Engineering (1991-1995) from Guilan University. From January 2007 to June 2017 he was faculty member at Kharazmi University in Tehran. Between 2011 and 2016 he was Director of the Central Library at this university and Head of LIS Department during that time. Yazdan joined CSU in August 2017 and his main research interests are human information behaviour (HIB), emotional aspects of HIB, information seeking and sharing in the context of serious leisure. In his current research program, Yazdan explores the key role of experiencing joy and pleasure in engaging people with various hobbies, amateurism and volunteer activities and how it inspires them to passionately seek, share, use and produce information in these contexts. |
| Interests | The Invisible Web, Information Searching in Online Resources, Information Retrieval, Qualitative Research in LIS, Information Literacy, and User-oriented Aspects of Human-computer Interaction. |