Week 4
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Readings - available on Electronic Reserve
Savolainen, R. (1993) The sense-making theory: reviewing the interests of a user-centered approach to information seeking and use. Information Processing & Management. 29(1), 13-28.
Tuominen, K., Talja, S. and Savolainen, R. (2002) Discourse, Cognition, and Reality: Toward a Social Constructionist Metatheory for Library and Information Science. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Conceptions in Library and Information Science: 271-283.
Activity
Several of you will research for discussion one of the frameworks below. Develop (in advance) a small set of discussion questions for the class, and be prepared to facilitate class discussion. Please note that you will have to read more broadly than the articles listed for this week.
Please prepare a 10 minute overview of the framework with a view to the broader question, and create a short bibliography of suggested resources for your colleagues.
Does Information Science have successive, defining theoretical models and frameworks?
I would like you to be able to describe the theoretical framework and how it helps information scientists to study human information behavior.
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Sensemaking theory Lisa Nathan, Eric Meyers, |
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The discourse analytic viewpoint or Social Constructionism Peyina Lin, Ok Nam Park |
Reading - available on Electronic Reserve
Bates, M. (2002) "Toward an Integrated Model of Information Seeking and Searching" presented at ISIC 2002, the Fourth International Conference on Information Seeking in Context, pp. 2-14.
Visit a location where you think you will be able to observe information behavior. This might be a library, computer lab, community information center, work environment, or any other setting where information is located, transferred, searched, used, etc. Observe the information behavior taking place in this setting: what are people doing, how are people engaging in information behavior? Be prepared to share your observations in class.
