J. Brenton Stewart, PhD
J. Brenton Stewart, PhD
Associate Professor
PhD: Library & Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master's Degree(s): MSLS, Clark Atlanta University
Bachelor's Degree(s): BA, University of North Carolina Greensboro
275 Coates Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
O: (225) 578-1467
F: (225) 578-4581
Biography
J. Brenton Stewart is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Stewart completed his PhD in Library & Information Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is focused on everyday information needs and behaviors (that is information requests, desires, production, and dissemination outside of libraries) with a particular emphasis on social media platforms.
Courses Taught
LIS 7010 Organization of Information
LIS 7401 Academic Libraries
LIS 7503 Information Technology and Public Policy
LIS 7608 Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
LIS 7609 Advanced Cataloging and Classification
Research Areas
Dr. Stewart’s research centers underrepresented populations with an emphasis on everyday information behaviors and barriers.
Selected Publications
Stewart, J. B. (2022). Community, Risk Assessment, Prevention and Control: Black American College Students' Information Seeking on COVID-19. Health Information & Libraries Journal.
Ju, B., Stewart, J. B., & Jin, T. (2022). “A bit hard for us to explain”: Barriers to creating new information in scientific collaboration. Library & Information Science Research, 44(3), 101173.
Ju, B., & Stewart, B. (2019). “The right information”: perceptions of information bias among Black Wikipedians. Journal of Documentation, 75(6), 1486-1502.
Stewart, B. (2019). “Hard to find”: information barriers among LGBT college students. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(5), 601-617.
Yang, S., & Stewart, B. (2019). @ Houston police: an exploratory case of Twitter during Hurricane Harvey. Online Information Review.
Selected Presentations
Stewart, B., Ju, B. A Conceptual Framework of Data (Info) Quality Revisited, Annual Meeting of Association for Information Science and Technology, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 30 - November 2, 2021.
Ju, B., Stewart, B., European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, Perceptions of information bias and inequity among Black Wikipedians, Cologne, Germany. (December 2018).
Stewart B., Ju, B. What Drives Black Contributions to Wikipedia? Annual Meeting of Association for Information Science and Technology Vancouver, BC, Canada | November 9th – November 14, 2018.
Stewart, B.,Yang, S., WebScience Conference 2018, "The Spread of “Fake” and “False” Information During Hurricane Harvey," ACM Conference on Web Science, Vrije Universiteit
Selected Grants & Funded Projects
Stewart, B. & Walker, J. (2018). EAGER cloud-ecosystem in box (CEB). National Science Foundation, $298,286. Award number 1842679. Funded.
Awards & Honors
Russell B. Long Professor, 2016-2018.