Genres and situational appropriation of information

Huvila, Isto

doi:10.1108/jd-03-2019-0044

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“…The existing literature on information seeking for coping with cancer could benefit from further analyses of how cancer patients establish trust when seeking information while coping with serious illness as well as analyses of the information seeking behaviour of cancer patients as communities of practice. Furthermore, Huvila (2019) discusses how information is also made useful and taken into use in the course of information work. More specifically, building on the notions of genre and situational appropriation, Huvila addresses that in addition to being sought, existing information are made useful and taken into use.…”

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Information seeking for coping with cancer: a systematic review

Petersen

Jensen

Frandsen

2021

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PurposeInformation seeking can be used to make sense of a situation or solve a problem. Information seeking can be considered a coping strategy when facing illness, crisis or other life-changing events. Cancer is a globally occurring, life-threatening disease, and this review aims to provide an overview of the existing literature on the active information seeking behaviour of cancer patients specifically focussing on how active information seeking serves as a coping strategy.Design/methodology/approachThis study adheres to current guidelines for conducting systematic reviews and consequently, thorough literature searches were conducted in four databases: Medline, Embase, CINAHL and Scopus which resulted in 7,179 publications. Following a careful screening process, this systematic review identifies 14 studies on the use of information seeking to cope with cancer.FindingsThe included studies consist of both qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysing the use of information seeking to cope with cancer. The included studies have focussed primarily on demographic factors, the impact of affect, information needs, sources and coping strategies.Research limitations/implicationsA number of research gaps within library and information science are identified. Bringing research in this field into information science could allow for a greater understanding of information literacy, the use of existing information and the process of information searching when using information seeking to cope with serious illness.Originality/valueThis systematic review focusses on how information seeking serves as a coping strategy for cancer patients and provides an overview of the recent literature.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Information seeking for coping with cancer: a systematic review

Petersen

Jensen

Frandsen

2021

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“…The notion of information discovery (Wilson, 2021;Proper & Bruza, 1999, most often used in accidental information discovery, e.g., Erdelez, 1997) encompasses in broader terms "passive" and unanticipated encounters with information (Erdelez & Makri, 2020) that go beyond formal or informal seeking and acquisition. Further, the concept of situational appropriation addresses situations when already known information is seized into a new use, that is, where the discovery or serendipitous encounter happens with a novel situation instead of new information (Huvila, 2019b;Huvila et al, 2015;Julien & Michels, 2004). Besides, information use is sometimes utilized to refer to acquiring and handling rather than merely consuming, employing, exploiting, and refining information and creating (Suorsa & Huotari, 2014) or absorbing (Vasconcelos et al, 2018) knowledge.…”

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“…When used in this sense, taking would cover both active and passive uptake and experience, or as Ingold (2017) puts it, the spectrum from volitional doing to undergoing it. In comparison to terms such as information acquisition (Savolainen, 2016) or information discovery (Wilson, 2021), taking has the potential to encompass a broader variety of modalities of how information comes into use beyond mere discovery from seeking, non-seeking (Manheim, 2014) and even "not-seeking" (Huvila, 2019b) to actual uptake and eventual transformations that make it ready for use. Instead of trying to define where browsing, searching, or passive seeking starts and ends, they can be all be conceptualized as interlinked facets or modes of information taking.…”

Section: Information Takingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An inquiry into the diverse norms and values (Trace, 2007), scripts, and computational models (Alaimo & Kallinikos, 2019) and expectations, the role of information genres (cf. Andersen, 2015;Huvila, 2019b), how information making and taking author the reality (cf. Huvila, 2019a;Shotter & Cunliffe, 2003), and, for instance, how making and taking are influenced by information needs and human and non-human agencies, opens for elucidating links between specific types and constellations of making and taking.…”

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Making and taking information

Huvila

2021

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Information behavior theory covers different aspects of the totality of information-related human behavior rather unevenly. The transitions or trading zones between different types of information activities have remained perhaps especially under-theorized. This article interrogates and expands a conceptual apparatus of information making and information taking as a pair of substantial concepts for explaining, in part, the mobility of information in terms of doing that unfolds as a process of becoming rather than of being, and in part, what is happening when information comes into being and when something is taken up for use as information. Besides providing an apparatus to describe the nexus of information provision and acquisition, a closer consideration of the parallel doings opens opportunities to enrich the inquiry of the conditions and practice of information seeking, appropriation, discovery, and retrieval as modes taking, and learning and information use as its posterities. | INTRODUCTIONConsidering the principal consensus on that information behavior (IB) covers the "totality of human behavior in relation to sources and channels of information, including both active and passive information seeking, and information use" (Wilson, 2000), the attention of information science research to the individual parts of that totality has been unevenly distributed (Case & Given, 2016). Much of earlier empirical research and many of the popular theories (Robinson, 2009) alike focus on information seeking whereas other areas, perhaps, in particular, information use (Savolainen, 2009), have remained both under-theorized and under-researched. In parallel, there has been a comparable, relative dearth of theorizing and models that would account for junctures between behaviors that account for the manipulation of information, for instance, by creation, organizing and managing, and its use. Earlier studies refer to "information creation and use" and how they are dynamically related to each other (Huuskonen, 2014) but seldom theorize this nexus in detail. This and other junctures are subsumed in some models that describe spaces and places (

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“…Because of Andersen, rhetorical genre theory has gained traction in LIS. Scholars have looked at genre labeling of webpages (Santini, 2008), the use and implications of rhetorical genre theory in conceptualizing scholarly communication (Gullbekk, 2016;Nuria, 2011), disciplinary communities and specific genres within those communities (Gorichanaz, 2017b;Huvila, 2019;Nahotko, 2016;Schreiber, 2014), and applying rhetorical genre theory within information literacy instruction (Burkholder, 2010;Jankowski, 2018;Leebaw, 2018;Mills, 2014;Simmons, 2005). Researchers have combined rhetorical genre theory with existing theories and frameworks for information behavior (Gorichanaz, 2017b;Gullbekk, 2016;Huvila, 2019;Schreiber, 2014), but none have used rhetorical genre theory to form a coherent theoretical framework for talking about format in information behavior.…”

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Genre containers: Building a theoretical framework for studying formats in information behavior

Brannon

Buhler

Cataldo

et al. 2021

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Prior studies have shown high-level differences in people's perception and use of various information formats. However, the lack of a coherent and theoretically informed framework of elements of format has inhibited a nuanced understanding of the role that formats play in information behavior. This paper draws on theories from the field of rhetoric and composition to ground the study of information format in a social constructivist perspective that foregrounds action in context. Specifically, rhetorical genre theory is discussed in detail and the limitations of previous information behavior studies using rhetorical genre theory are explored. One of the main problems of earlier studies is confusing genres and their containers. This paper introduces and defines the concept of containers as typified ways of collecting and presenting texts of certain genres for publication. Building on rhetorical genre theory, the paper offers a theoretical exploration of the role that containers play in the formal and/or public sharing of information within discourse communities. An illustrative example of the concepts applied to data from an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded study is provided.

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Genres and situational appropriation of information

Cited by 12 publications

References 111 publications

Information seeking for coping with cancer: a systematic review

Information seeking for coping with cancer: a systematic review

Making and taking information

Genre containers: Building a theoretical framework for studying formats in information behavior

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