The impoverished life‐world of outsiders

Chatman, Elfreda A.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199603)47:3<193::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-m

Cited by 194 publications

(454 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

425

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Early contributions include Tom Wilson's (1981) framework identifying inter-personal constraints of information seeking. Since the 1990s, the picture of socio-cultural barriers has been enriched by new features such as restrictive social norms (Chatman, 1992) and lack of social capital (C. A. Johnson, 2007).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The focus was thus placed on the features of socio-cultural constraints. Sometimes, researchers also referred to antecedents of barriers, e.g., restrictive norms characteristic of small-world communities (e.g., Chatman, 1992). Unfortunately, in these studies, the characterizations of the antecedents and features of barriers were lumped together so that it was not possible to differentiate them reliably.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Drawing on the ideas of Chatman (1991Chatman ( , 1996Chatman ( , 1999, such constraints are referred to as small-world related barriers. Different from constraints related to social stigma and cultural taboo, small-world related barriers are confined to certain local communities that are relatively closed to outsiders.…”

Section: Small-world Related Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Different from constraints related to social stigma and cultural taboo, small-world related barriers are confined to certain local communities that are relatively closed to outsiders. Retirement houses (Chatman, 1992) and prisons (Chatman, 1999) exemplify well small-world communities of this kind.…”

Section: Small-world Related Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

Savolainen

2016

Library & Information Science Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seekingTo appear in Library & Information Science Research 38(1), 2016 Abstract Drawing on conceptual analysis, the study elaborates the picture of socio-cultural barriers to information seeking. The analysis focuses on the features of such barriers and their impact on information seeking in diverse contexts. A typology identifying six main types of socio-cultural barriers was developed: barriers due to language problems, barriers related to social stigma and cultural taboo, small-world related barriers, institutional barriers, organizational barriers, and barriers due to the lack of social and economic capital. Socio-cultural barriers are man-made constructs originating from social norms and cultural values. The barriers have mainly an adverse impact on information seeking by restricting access to information sources and giving rise to negative emotions.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Small-world Related Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Small-world Related Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

Savolainen

2016

Library & Information Science Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For example, Hamer's 2003 study of the use of ICTs by young gay males in public libraries underpinned how LGBT-identifying patrons grapple with fear and the concealment of their information seeking activities. These findings corroborate Chatman's (1996) theory of information poverty, which addresses how marginalized groups selectively disclose information about their stigmatized identities to those outside of their perceived community. However, little research exists on the various safeguards public libraries use to protect the online privacy of their patrons, especially libraries that serve a noticeable number of patrons from marginalized groups.…”

Section: Background 21 Digital Inclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Patron Privacy: A Luxury Concern for Marginalized Internet Users

Dosono¹

iConference 2016 Proceedings

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Marginalized communities rely on community anchor institutions like public libraries as their primary location for connecting to the Internet. Using the Onondaga County Public Library (OCPL) system in Upstate New York as the site of study, I aim to understand the privacy protecting behaviors of marginalized groups from the perspective of library managers, rather than from the perspective of marginalized group members themselves. Based on a mixed-methods approach of collecting interview and survey data from OCPL librarians, my findings suggest that (1) privacy standards remain consistent across all OCPL branches, (2) offline privacy is not given as much attention as online privacy in library spaces, and (3) there is a general lack of concern for privacy among marginalized patrons. This research contributes to the broad goal of assessing technology policies designed to improve information access for underserved populations in America.

show abstract

The knowledge?behavior gap in use of health information

Sligo

Jameson

2000

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

104

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Medical science offers an increasing quantity and quality of information to at‐risk groups, but too often people in a state of information poverty lack access to knowledge that would benefit them. Further, people may “know” what approach they should take to improve their health or other living conditions, but for a variety of reasons may not act on that knowledge. Pacific Island immigrants to New Zealand are especially at risk from cervical cancer, but participate less in cervical screening services than New Zealanders of European descent. This study reports on perceived barriers among New Zealand Pacific women to the use of cervical screening and proposes solutions for improved access to these services. Imperatives of cultural topic avoidance, modesty, and religion created significant barriers to the topic of cervical screening. Respondents strongly favored sources of information that were mediated through their community groups but smear‐takers were preferably non‐Pacific in ethnicity. The respondents' lived experience of “community connectedness” defined them as distinct from recent U.S. studies where participants were seen as highly isolated in their social environments.

show abstract

The impoverished life‐world of outsiders

Cited by 194 publications

References 0 publications

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

Patron Privacy: A Luxury Concern for Marginalized Internet Users

The knowledge?behavior gap in use of health information

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About