Conceptualizing and studying information creation: From production and processes to makers and making

Abstract

An emerging body of literature has begun to address the earlier under‐researched topic of information creation. This panel inquires into the state‐of‐the‐art of research on information creation to highlight how different conceptualisations of information creation can foreground various key aspects of how information is made and produced, what types of actors and activities are involved, how information creation can be studied empirically, and what novel insights can be drawn to support practitioners, for instance, in information literacy instruction, information organisation and management, and information systems and services development.

Digital 3D Technologies for Humanities Research and Education: An Overview

“…Investigating documentation principles is a core topic of library and information studies (LIS) [595]. Philosophy of documentation is related to information conceptualization as models and theories [596,597], e.g., classification [598], information creation [599], and information behavior [600]. As a methodological approach, documentation behavior is primarily investigated using empirical methods described above [595].…”

Tattoo information creation: Towards a holistic understanding of tattoo information experience

“…A special emphasis on the role of information creation in information experience was applied to tattoo research. Information creation is considered a conceptually and empirically underresearched area in information science; nevertheless, existing information creation research reveals four dimensions: informational things, the actions of creating these things, actors or the creators, and the context where information is created (Huvila et al, 2020). Put against these dimensions, the tattoo experience reveals possibilities to explore how tattoo images are created as things, what actions lead to the creation of a tattoo image, who is considered a creator of a tattoo image, and how different personal, social and cultural contexts influence creation of information through the tattoo acquisition experience.…”

“Let's keep this video as real as possible”: young video bloggers constructing cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process

“…Although there is a long tradition of research on creating, producing or making informational things in other fields, these notions have not been well recognized or developed within information literacy or practices research (Kitzie, 2019;Hicks, 2020;Huvila et al, 2020). Lacking a clear definition, information creation is often viewed as synonymous or overlapping with information production and making, terms more often used in the context of digital media production (Koh, 2013), or regarded as information use, a final product of information literacy or a way to present content (Gorichanaz, 2019;Hicks, 2020).…”

“…Although there is a long tradition of research on creating, producing or making informational things in other fields, these notions have not been well recognized or developed within Video bloggers constructing cognitive authority information literacy or practices research (Kitzie, 2019;Hicks, 2020;Huvila et al, 2020).…”

“…Lloyd, 2017). Moreover, the study contributes to an under-researched area within information studies (Huvila et al , 2020) by studying information creation as an information literacy practice. It particularly focuses on the concept of cognitive authority (Wilson, 1983) to investigate how young video bloggers use information sources to construct their own cognitive authority through health-related information creation and in relation to the viewers of their videos.…”