Conceptual analysis: A method for understanding information as evidence, and evidence as information

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

“…Following Furner (2004), this method can be defined as an approach that treats concepts like sociocultural barrier or sub-concepts such as institutional barrier as classes of objects, events, properties, or relationships. It involves defining the meaning of a given concept by identifying and specifying the contexts in which any entity or phenomenon is classified under the concept in question.…”

Emotions as motivators for information seeking: A conceptual analysis

“…This is a method that treats concepts as classes of objects, events, properties, or relationships. It involves defining the meaning of a given concept by identifying and specifying the contexts in which any entity or phenomenon is (or could be) classified under the concept in question (Furner, 2004). More specifically, the documents were analyzed by devoting attention to how researchers have described or defined:  the qualities of individual emotions and feelings as factors that motivate information seeking (for example, the ways in which anxiety is characterized as a motivational factor in the particular context of information seeking)  the ways in which diverse emotions and feelings drive, expand, limit or terminate information seeking (for example, how anxiety is conceptualized as a factor that limits the seeking of health-related information).…”

Good and Bad Times of Social Innovations: The Case of Universal Basic Income in Finland

“…In order to qualify the analysis, we cross-checked various information sources. Methodologically, this means that we followed the rules of critical source analysis (Haapala, 1989;Hyytiäinen & Tähtinen, 2008;Kalela, 2002) and the ideas of conceptual analysis (Furner, 2006;Levering, 2002).…”