2017
DOI: 10.1108/jd-10-2016-0119
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Bringing out the everyday in everyday information behavior

Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue that scholars in the information behavior (IB) field should embrace the theoretical framework of the everyday to explore a more holistic view of IB. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes the theory of the everyday and delineates four opportunities offered by scholars of the everyday. The paper concludes with three examples that highlight what a more everyday-focused everyday information behavior might look like. Findings The theory of the everyday pro… Show more

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“…This is summarised in Table I. In the view of Husserl (1913Husserl ( /1982 as well as the other scholars cited in this section, academic enquiry tends to operate with the scientific attitude, investigating phenomena after they have already been conceptualised, categorised and theorized to some extent. The field of information behaviour is no exception, as Gaston (2017), Talja and Nyce (2015), Ocepek (2018) and others have shown. Husserl (1913Husserl ( /1982 considered this a limitation and sought to develop a mode of inquiry that could expose insights made within the lifeworld but that are lost to the scienceworld.…”
Section: The Lifeworldmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…This is summarised in Table I. In the view of Husserl (1913Husserl ( /1982 as well as the other scholars cited in this section, academic enquiry tends to operate with the scientific attitude, investigating phenomena after they have already been conceptualised, categorised and theorized to some extent. The field of information behaviour is no exception, as Gaston (2017), Talja and Nyce (2015), Ocepek (2018) and others have shown. Husserl (1913Husserl ( /1982 considered this a limitation and sought to develop a mode of inquiry that could expose insights made within the lifeworld but that are lost to the scienceworld.…”
Section: The Lifeworldmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Likewise, the scope of everyday life information behavior has broadened. Still, scholars such as Ocepek () argue that much “everyday” research still largely limits itself to studying the forms of recorded information that have historically concerned information behavior, such as formal publications.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over the past decade, scholars have demonstrated the importance of studying information behavior in everyday life contexts (Savolainen, ) as well as from the perspective of first‐person, lived experience (Bruce, Davis, Hughes, Partridge, & Stoodley, ; Gorichanaz, ; Gorichanaz, Latham, & Wood, ). Further progress in these areas requires that we recognize the breadth of phenomena that are informative, rather than limiting our investigations to those sources that have traditionally been considered informative in information science (Ocepek, ). For example, a traditional study in information behavior may not show how taking breaks and reflecting on one's memories can be informative (see Gorichanaz, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The paper also confirms the value of the key work of Dorothy Smith (2005) (also stressed in Kearney et al, 2018), and the importance of moving beyond interests in individuals only. Institutional ethnography has been used in various healthcare contexts, including nursing and mental health (Knyahnytska, 2014;Rankin, 2003;Walby, 2007), but with very limited uptake in Information Science; Ocepek (2018) and Pilerot (2016) note it in their work on, respectively, everyday life information behaviour and evidence-based practice and social welfare service, and Dalmer notes a few other works, in addition to her own, that use the method. In exploring a wider spectrum of disease and healthcare contexts, health information behaviour researchers might also consider combining institutional ethnography with methods such as community-based and participatory approaches (Nichols et al, 2017) and autoethnography (Taber, 2010).…”
Section: Institutional Ethnographymentioning
confidence: 99%