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A quantitative content analysis of recently published research in information behavior is compared with previous analyses to create a 30-year profile of work in the field. Variables of particular interest include research methods employed, user groups studied, relative interdisciplinarity, theoretical frameworks applied, attention to affect, and attention to systems design.Une analyse quantitative de contenus de recherches sur le comportement informationnel publiés récemment a été comparée à des analyses réalisées précédemment afin d’aboutir à un profil sur trente ans du travail accompli dans le domaine. Les variables offrant un intérêt particulier comprennent : les méthodes de recherche utilisées, les groupes d'utilisateurs étudiés, une relative interdisciplinarité, les cadres théoriques appliqués, l’attention aux affects, et l’attention aux conceptions de systèmes.*** Awarded Best Overall Conference Paper ***

A quantitative content analysis of recently published research in information behaviour is compared with previous analyses to create a 30-year profile of work in the field. Variables of particular interest include research methods employed, user groups studied, relative interdisciplinarity, theoretical frameworks applied, attention to affect, and attention to systems design.

It has been thirteen years since Eugene Genovese published a book solely in his own name, and nine since Fruits of Merchant Capital, whose authorship he shared with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. It is not impossible that our younger readers, as they used to say, know him only as a crotchety and conservative gentleman who, from a Southern fastness, occasionally lobs hand grenades into the debates over multiculturalism and political correctness, a man whom the Village Voice has felt it necessary to label a sort of Public Enemy No. 1, a man who veers between elaborate Southern courtesy and abrupt New York acidity. Our older readers will better remember from a generation ago the Genovese of The Political Economy of Slavery and Roll, Jordan, Roll: Genovese the radical, the enemy of Republican gubernatorial candidates, the historian who transformed the study of slavery and the Old South, who did more than anyone else to introduce Gramscian concepts of hegemony into American thought. Many might see his present conservatism as a deviation from his early radicalism. In fact, it is probably only an extension of a Marxism that always stressed order and discipline. Those who measure their historians out in books will have reason to feel that Genovese has been silent for too long on his metier, the Old South. In fact, he has been engaged with Fox-Genovese in a venture as extensive as Roll, Jordan, Roll, which bears the working title of The Mind of the Master Class. This is intended to be an intellectual history of the Old South or, rather, of the slaveholding hegemony defined in his earlier books. For several years, articles have been appearing, sometimes in his name, sometimes in hers, sometimes in both, that have been sketching pieces of the puzzle they wish eventually to define and solve. But these have often appeared in obscure places, which the lay reader will be forgiven for having missed and even the cognoscenti have sometimes neglected. Thus scattered, these essays have not compelled an assessment or occupied a prominent place in the debate over antebellum Southern culture. The Slaveholders' Dilemma, being both a summary of those piecemeal articles and a down payment on the magnum opus to come, will presumably change this situation.

Murga porteña, the satirical street theatre tradition associated with Carnival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is historically a strongly patriarchal institution. Prominent roles such as reciting poetry, singing, and playing percussion instruments have been reserved exclusively for men. As the feminist movement in Argentina has grown in visibility and importance in recent years, feminist murga participants disrupted these patriarchal patterns. Women murga performers (murgueras) have begun to use murga as a space for feminist practice, both by creating women-only organizations to learn murga skills and by bringing feminist perspectives into mixed-gender murgas. Murgueras are engaged in a multifaceted feminist project that disrupts gendered patterns by building women-only spaces to develop competence in the performance of historically masculine skills such as percussion. Drawing on ethnographic participant-observation of murga events as well as in-depth interviews with key organizers at the confluence of murga and feminism, we explore the ways in which murga has provided the spaces and strategies for collective feminist engagement. Murgas have become important social institutions in which women are “undoing gender” and disseminating feminist perspectives, even as most members join them not as explicitly feminist institutions.