Information Behavior and Information Practice: Reviewing the “Umbrella Concepts” of Information‐Seeking Studies

Gandra

2018

Biblios

ResumoObjetivo. O estudo apresenta abordagens de pesquisa em práticas informacionais e suas implicações para o delineamento de estudos no âmbito do campo de usuários da informação. Método. Revisão bibliográfica das bases conceituais das práticas sociais e informacionais e da produção de três grupos de pesquisa, finlandês, sueco e brasileiro, nesta abordagem. Resultados. Todos os grupos de pesquisa apresentam as práticas informacionais como aquelas que vão além do estudo do comportamento informacional, mas que procuram escrutinar atividades relacionadas ao contato socialmente mediado com a informação (incluindo atividades comunicativas) e as práticas predominantemente relacionadas à informação em ambientes escolares, de pesquisa e do cotidiano, seja físico ou digital. Predominam, nos grupos europeus estudados, os referenciais teóricos derivados da teoria da prática de Schatzki, e no grupo brasileiro, abordagens etnometodológicas. Conclusões. Estudos de usuários pautados pela perspectiva das práticas informacionais não devem ser baseados em modelos de comportamento informacional, nem nas perspectivas objetivista e subjetivista. Diferentes abordagens teórico-metodológicas são demandadas pelo conceito de práticas informacionais e por seus diferentes entendimentos. Todavia, essa diversidade de entendimentos entre os três grupos pesquisados demonstra a potência da área: a complexidade da realidade social e o esforço constante dos pesquisadores para desvelar as diversas facetas dos fenômenos informacionais. Palavras-chave Comportamento informacional; Estudos de usuários; Etnometodologia; Metodologia; Práticas informacionais Information practices: new approach on information user studies AbstractObjective. This study presents research approaches on information practices and its implications for designing studies in the field of user studies. Method. Bibliographic research on social and information practices' conceptual basis and on three research groups that use this approach -a Brazilian, a Swedish and a Finnish. Results. All research groups present information practices as those that go beyond the information behaviour studies and that try to scrutinize activities related to socially mediated contact with information (including communicative activities) and the pratices related to information on formal education, research and daily living environments, either real or digital. The European groups studied use theorethical references based on the Schatzki practice theory, while the Brazilian group prefer ethnometodological references. Conclusions. User studies based on an information practice approach must not be underpinned nor on information behaviour models neither on objective or subjective approaches. Different methodology-theoretical approaches are called upon by the information practices concept and its diverse interpretations. However, this diversity among the three groups studied shows the field's strength: the complexity of social reality and the continuous researchers' efforts to reveal different facets of inf...

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Práticas informacionais: nova abordagem para os estudos de usuários da informação

Gandra

2018

Biblios

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

“…According to Courtright (2007, p. 273) it is important to examine information practices as part of a "process that takes place within specified situations and contexts". (The term "information practices" is often used interchangeably with "information behaviour", although there are differences in their meaning (Savolainen, 2007)). This section briefly considers the South African research landscape as well as the status quo of research output from the Faculty of Veterinary Science (University of Pretoria).…”

Section: Research Landscape In South Africa and Research Output Of Thmentioning

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“…Incorporating the new found information into a persons' current knowledge base, is called information use (Spink & Cole, 2006). Information behaviour is an umbrella concept for information related activities such as the recognition of information needs, information seeking, avoidance of information and the use of information (Case, 2012;Savolainen, 2007;Wilson, 2000).…”

Section: Information Needs and Information Behaviour Of Veterinariansmentioning

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Information Behavior and Expectations of Veterinary Researchers and Their Requirements for Academic Library Services

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Fourie

2016

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

Information behavior

Fisher

Julien

2009

101

IntroductionInformation behavior focuses on people's information needs; on how they seek, manage, give, and use information, both purposefully and passively, in the varied roles that comprise their everyday lives. Since the first ARIST chapters in the 1960s, the field of information needs and uses has expanded beyond studying academics and scientists to addressing non-work-related situations, employing mixed empirical methods, building a conceptual core for framing information behavior studies, and identifying key concepts for future investigation. This chapter reviews information behavior research published since Case's (2006) review, spanning the years 2005 to early 2008 and backpedaling to include several works from 2004. In addition to searching bibliographic databases, manual examinations were conducted of such key journals as further developed through solicitations on the ASIST SIG USE and ASIST listservs, which helped identify works in press. As Case (2006) noted, information behavior is a broad field that in its widest interpretation includes just about any paper that deals with information and people. In order to focus and manage the review, we excluded papers that limited themselves to the use of a particular source or system, did not encompass broader concepts or principles, and generally excluded other information science subfields such as information retrieval, information literacy, and knowledge management. We also excluded material written in languages other than English.Candidate papers were further limited to the formally published literature; we excluded reports to funding agencies and self-published papers. Beginning with an overview of the research methods used in post-2004 studies, this chapter traces the information behavior literature by discussing the theme of context, followed by elaborations of specific populations (academics, scientists, and students; occupational groups; and ordinary people in everyday life situations and health contexts), information sources (interpersonal, social networks and the Internet, and libraries), key concepts (including affect), and finally, theoretical frameworks. Case's (2006) chapter is recommended reading for an overview of past coverage of information behavior in ARIST. The current chapter is intended to complement cognate reviews on activity theory and information seeking (Wilson, 2008), multitasking behavior (Spink, Cole, & Waller, 2008), human geography and information studies (Downey, 2007), personal information management (Jones, 2007), scientific collaboration (Sonnenwald, 2007), context in information behavior research (Courtright, 2007), workplace 7-3 studies and technological change (Garcia, Dawes, Kohne, Miller, & Groschwitz, 2006), collaborative information seeking and retrieval (Foster, 2006), information failures in health care (MacIntosh-Murray & Choo, 2006), the social world of the Web (Haythornthwaite & Hagar, 2005), and children, teenagers, and the Web (Large, 2005). Method in Information Behavior ResearchThe methods used in recent info...