Biography and Expertise
Areas of Interest:
- Knowledge organization, cultural heritage informatics, information behavior, information ethics.
His research interests include information processes in pleasurable and profound areas of human life (e.g., arts and crafts, cultural heritage, religion, and self-publishing); Indigenous curatorship as an information profession; as well as ethical concerns about certain uses of information technologies and disinformation.
Professor Vamanu is currently working on a few projects: the construction of cultural heritage as a research object in the scholarship across disciplines; the roles and responsibilities of Indigenous curators in North American context; information practices in various cultural heritage contexts; the role of fiction reading in the education of information professionals; ethical challenges related to the use of big data; research literacy practices for critical information consumers in a regime of post-truth climate.