Information Science researchers have been relatively slow to consider the role of the body in understanding the relationship between people, information and technology. This panel will discuss how a consideration of the body can enrich information researchers' understanding of the complex relationship between people, information and technologies, old and new. Each panel member will briefly describe their own theoretical and methodological approach and how they have informed their understanding. This will be followed by a moderated discussion between the panel and audience members.

In this brief contribution I argue that an apparent dichotomy between information behavior seen as the behavior of individuals and their respective information styles and information behavior considered as a social practice may be resolved by considering the underresearched corporeality of the human body aka embodiment, which is a fundamental aspect of any kind of behavior, including information behavior. Practice is inherently embodied too, which means embodiment can be utilized as a vantage point to seek conceptual grounding for the rather diverse range of theories and models in information behavior research. The challenge then is to articulate in what ways and on what levels a particular approach contributes to advancing information behavior research. Conceptual clarity would also help information behavior models and theories developed in libraries and information science become more accessible and hopefully also more relevant to researchers in cognate disciplines.

Defining the scope and the aim of``knowledge management'' is as difficult as defining the nature of knowledge which is the``substrate'' to be managed. As a consequence,``there is still no one universally accepted definition for knowledge management'' (Tsui, 2000). Most definitions, however, share the perspective that knowledge management is concerned with the collection and dissemination of knowledge to the benefit of an organization and its individuals. Knowledge, in this context, is often seen as information with specific properties; information is viewed as a kind of preliminary stage to knowledge. Leonard and Sensiper, for example, define knowledge as``information that is relevant, actionable, and based at least partially on experience'' (Leonard and Sensiper, 1998).Given this close relationship of knowledge and information, it comes as little surprise that the``knowledge management'' description above can easily be adapted to describe what the related disciplinè`i nformation management'' is about: the collection and dissemination of information to the benefit of an organization and its individuals.Considering the similarity of concepts and definitions in knowledge management and information management, it is tempting to assume that knowledge can be treated as similar to information. Apparently, information can be transmitted, stored, processed, and retrieved very efficiently. Thus, it seems to be straightforward to adapt computer-based tools used in information management, such as information retrieval systems or information filtering tools, in order to use them for knowledge management as well. Indeed, many knowledge management tools, such as expertise finders or knowledge repositories, resemble information management tools.A closer look at the applicability of computer-based information management tools, however, reveals that the scope is rather limited and so is the applicability of such tools in the knowledge management domain. Knowledge management and information management not only dispose of similar toolsThe author

Literature to date has treated as distinct two issues (a) the influence of pornography on young people and (b) the growth of Internet child pornography, also called child exploitation material (CEM). This article discusses how young people might interact with, and be affected by, CEM. The article first considers the effect of CEM on young victims abused to generate the material. It then explains the paucity of data regarding the prevalence with which young people view CEM online, inadvertently or deliberately. New analyses are presented from a 2010 study of search terms entered on an internationally popular peer-to-peer website, isoHunt. Over 91 days, 162 persistent search terms were recorded. Most of these related to file sharing of popular movies, music, and so forth. Thirty-six search terms were categorized as specific to a youth market and perhaps a child market. Additionally, 4 deviant, and persistent search terms were found, 3 relating to CEM and the fourth to bestiality. The article discusses whether the existence of CEM on a mainstream website, combined with online subcultural influences, may normalize the material for some youth and increase the risk of onset (first deliberate viewing). Among other things, the article proposes that future research examines the relationship between onset and sex offending by youth.

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