When reading Dervin’s article you want to think about the following issues:
· Make sure you can explain the Sense-Making approach.
· To which basic concepts introduced in class is it most relevant?
· Which new basic concepts does it introduce?
· How do these new concepts relate to the ones we have already discussed?
· How would the Sense-Making approach explain the difference between:
o Information want
o Information demand
o Information need
· How would Sense-Making explain the major issues that are involved in information evaluating?
· How would the Sense-Making approach determine whether information was used?
· How does the information system help the user, according to the Sense-Making approach?
We will discuss
these issues in class