Collectivist information behavior: Mentoring circles as sites for knowledge creation

Given, Lisa M.; Kelly, Wade

doi:10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301059

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“…While collectivism is attractive in that it complicates the user/system dichotomy on which prior paradigms rest, it is also a difficult paradigm through which to design qualitative or quantitative research studies (Given and Kelly, 2016). This is because reality, in this paradigm, is not objective, and mere observation of individuals or systems thus does not lead the academic community towards shared knowledge.…”

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Parsing through paradigms: uncertainty and decision-making in human information behavior

Mestre

2023

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PurposeThis study demonstrates how individual paradigms implicate the questions asked, methods used and results drawn in association with a common object of study in human information behavior (HIB) research – the relationship between uncertainty and decision-making.Design/methodology/approachThe author uses textual case studies to examine uncertainty and decision-making through the framework of four paradigms used in HIB research: positivism, cognitivism, collectivism and constructionism and suggests deconstructionism as a paradigm which raises new questions around this topic.FindingsPositivistic approaches to uncertainty are often systems oriented; cognitive approaches are often user-oriented; collectivist approaches are intersubjective; and constructionist approaches blend a subjective and intersubjective research orientation. Deconstructionism raises new questions around ethics and responsibility in relation to decision-making, and the author therefore situates it as a new paradigmatic approach for this topic in HIB research.Originality/valueDespite the presence of research aimed at recognizing and defining paradigms in HIB research, a comparative micro-examination of how individual paradigms implicate a specific research topic has yet to be conducted. Each paradigm uniquely shapes the ways in which uncertainty and decision-making are characterized, but the four central ones examined here have thus far left out questions of ethics and responsibility as being core elements of decision-making as tied to uncertainty. Therefore, this paper introduces deconstructionism as a paradigm new to HIB uncertainty research, arguing that it provides an important and novel complication of existent research questions and approaches.

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Parsing through paradigms: uncertainty and decision-making in human information behavior

Mestre

2023

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How do parents of children with ASD use information grounds to seek for ASD‐related information?

Ying

Zhang

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have special needs about health information related to children. This research aims to understand how parents of children with ASD in China seek information in information grounds. We conducted field observations at a treatment and rehabilitation center, and interviewed 16 Chinese parents of children with ASD whose children participated in the therapy classes at this center. Results derived from qualitative coding and analysis suggest that: (1) parents' information needs evolve around improving their children's living skills, social connections are important information sources for them. (2) Parents' information grounds are closely related to their everyday life of looking after the children, such as classes and activities. Main topics of information sharing and exchange at such places include experiences of raising children with special needs, children's health status, and other child‐bearing topics. (3) Factors influencing parents' information behavior in the information grounds include homogeneity, familiarity, focal activity, reward expectation, and so on. (4) Parents benefit from such information grounds to gain useful information, emotional support, and social connections. These findings provide insights on better understanding the unique needs of parents with ASD children.

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Information in Crisis Mode? A Conceptual Analysis of the Information Crisis Discourse

Hicks,

Noone

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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The concept of ‘information crisis’ is playing an increasingly prominent role within information studies literature and practice. Yet, the term is rarely defined and its meaning often remains both inconsistent and ambiguous. This opacity calls for a greater grounding of the term if it is to become a key concept in the field, including how it operates and what it enforces. This short paper draws upon information studies literature to present a conceptual analysis of the concept of ‘information crisis.’ From this analysis, we argue that an ‘information crisis’ framing is typically used to either establish the status quo, through centring challenges to established information ecosystems, or maintain the status quo, by outlining the operations needed to renew or protect these landscapes. These findings illustrate how ‘information crisis’ can obscure the very contexts of inequality and injustice through which crisis operates and delimits the possibility of changing/disrupting the status quo.

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Collectivist information behavior: Mentoring circles as sites for knowledge creation

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Parsing through paradigms: uncertainty and decision-making in human information behavior

Parsing through paradigms: uncertainty and decision-making in human information behavior

How do parents of children with ASD use information grounds to seek for ASD‐related information?

Information in Crisis Mode? A Conceptual Analysis of the Information Crisis Discourse

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