Small worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling

Burnett, Gary; Besant, Michele; Chatman, Elfreda A.

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“…Even within middle-class communities, she argued in her path-breaking study of widows in a retirement complex (1992), patterns of behaviour such as secretiveness and deception could cause information poverty. Later her team 'discovered' information poverty among feminist booksellers (Burnett, Besant, & Chatman, 2001); other disciples located it in fashionable sub-cultural communities such as the body-modification set (Lingel & boyd, 2013). There is an obvious danger here.…”

Section: Concepts Of Information Povertymentioning

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Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society

Duff

2014

Information, Communication & Society

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The paper addresses one of the main paradoxes of post-industrial society: information poverty. While digital divides of various types have been extensively theorized and researched, the actual condition of the information poorthose at the wrong end of socioeconomic information-divideshas not received sufficient attention. Yet if advanced nations have 'informatized' and thus become, at least in some measure, information societies, the plight of those lacking the definitive resource ought surely to be high on academic and political agendas. The article reviews the scattered multidisciplinary literature on the condition, confirming the iron link between economic poverty and information poverty, while also registering cultural and behavioural dimensions. Building on such work, a focused, up-todate and, it is believed, original conception is able to be introduced, namely, information poverty as a deficiency in certain taken-for-granted categories of political and cognate information, or normal democratic information (NoDI). The new construct is then trialled in the field, among a sample of severely disadvantaged men in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. The informants are indeed found to be, by and large, wanting in these key categories of information, an epistemic pathology that reflects and reinforces their material malaise. The article concludes that the 'option for the poor'the political duty of care for the worst offin the twenty-first century demands new modes of State action to combat an acute and increasingly salient social problem.

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Section: Concepts Of Information Povertymentioning

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Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society

Duff

2014

Information, Communication & Society

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“…Dawson and Chatman (2001), for example, have suggested Reference Group Theory, as used by Merton and other sociologists. Burnett, Besant, and Chatman (2001) and Houtari and Chatman (2001) are two studies that applied Chatman's Small‐World Theory. McKenzie (2004) discussed Positioning Theory in the context of her study of pregnant women.…”

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Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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“…This article draws on the concept of "small worlds," social environments within which individuals live and work, linked by a set of common interests and expectations, as well as by a shared set of information needs and behaviors and often-though not always-by geographic proximity and similar economic status [1]. Within such small worlds, most everyday activities, including those related to the exchange of information and access to information, are often taken for granted and considered to be part of "the way things are."…”

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Information Access and Exchange among Small Worlds in a Democratic Society: The Role of Policy in Shaping Information Behavior in the Post‐9/11 United States

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Burnett²

2005

The Library Quarterly

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.Every democratic society relies on deliberation and dialogue between social groups with varying perspectives to provide for the representation of the diverse members of the society. Meaningful deliberation is based on open access to information by individuals and free exchange of information between different social groups. Policy developments in the United States since September 2001, however, have altered the roles of information in many social contexts, with impacts on information access and information exchange between social groups. These changes have the potential to be of great consequence to social and political uses of information in society. Libraries, as established guardians of diverse perspectives of information, are in a unique position to protect and preserve information access and exchange in this new policy environment.

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Small worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling

Abstract: 1 Although there are a number of ways in which in which to discuss "normative," this theory was designed to describe a typical and natural way of relating to a norm or standard of conduct. Thus, we do not make reference to the many other ways in which the term has been used.

Cited by 97 publications

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Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society

Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society

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Information Access and Exchange among Small Worlds in a Democratic Society: The Role of Policy in Shaping Information Behavior in the Post‐9/11 United States

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