Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor

Chatman, Elfreda A.; Pendleton, Victoria EM

doi:10.1300/j120v23n49_10

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“…Social access draws on Chatman's (1999Chatman's ( , 1996Chatman's ( , 1995 theories of information poverty and small worlds, which propose that people's access to information is influenced, and sometimes limited, by the social communities into which they have been enculturated. Within their small world or social community, people tend to preference certain sources and types of information, and might be skeptical of information that comes from outside of their circle, even if it is reliable and authoritative.…”

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Connecting Information Literacy and Social Justice: Why and How

Saunders¹

2017

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Connecting Information Literacy and Social Justice: Why and How

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2017

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“…They may end up exhibiting the behaviors characteristic of "information poverty" among marginalized communities studied by Elfreda Chatman (Chatman, 1996;Chatman & Pendleton, 1995), particularly her studies of women in prison (Chatman, 1999). For Chatman, the members of the prison community constitute "insiders" who end up being largely unconcerned by what happens in the "outside," which results in a "small world conceptualization" misinformed due to information poverty.…”

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Vulnerability and Information Practices among (Undocumented) Latino Migrants

Gómez

2016

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This paper explores the information practices (information seeking, using, and sharing) among Latino migrants, particularly undocumented migrants, in three different settings: at the US-Mexico border, in Seattle, Washington, and in Cali, Colombia. Through participatory photography and unstructured interviews, we explore the life experiences and information practices of marginalized and underserved communities and relate them to their experience of transience through different stages of the migration experience. We discuss how stages of migration may be limited to understand the iterative and constantly shifting experiences of migrants in the contexts we studied. Using a narrative style, we offer the richness of stories and the power of pictures to illustrate the concepts, in the words and images of the participants themselves.

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“…In a similar way, she investigated ordinary people's information needs. For instance, in her research of "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and Poor", she argued knowledge gap theory by focusing on information seeking behavior among the poor people, and noted that their information requirements is not answered by mass media (Chatman, 1995).…”

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An author report: Elfreda Annmary Chatman

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2016

HumanSciences

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The main aim of this report is to become familiar with Elfreda A. Chatman and her major works and theories. She has contributed information science by producing several theories such as "the theory of information poverty," "the normative behavior theory" and "the theory of life in the round" and implemented many studies about information seeking behavior of ordinary people. Although her major is library and information science, she focused on women in prison, the feminist movement, poor workers and janitors at large universities by using an ethnographic perception. She emphasized their information seeking behaviors in small communities and tried to describe their approach about information poverty. Also, she studied public libraries and the role of mentorship of the library leaders. The findings she found in her studies are useful not only for information science but also other disciplines such as sociology and psychology.

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Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor

Cited by 51 publications

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Connecting Information Literacy and Social Justice: Why and How

Connecting Information Literacy and Social Justice: Why and How

Vulnerability and Information Practices among (Undocumented) Latino Migrants

An author report: Elfreda Annmary Chatman

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