Grassroots information divides in China: Theorising everyday information practices in the Global South

Yan, Pu; Schroeder, Ralph

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2021.101665

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“…Since the late 1990s, the ELIS model proposed by Savolainen (1995) has been used in numerous studies examining information seeking in mundane contexts (e.g. Agosto and Hughes-Hassell, 2006a, b; Greyson, 2017; Naveed et al ., 2021; Yan and Schroeder, 2021). Common to these investigations is that the nature of the qualifier of everyday life is not reflected; the construct is taken for granted.…”

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Everyday life as an evolving context of information behaviour

Savolainen

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to elaborate the nature of everyday life as a context of information behaviour by examining how researchers have approached this issue. To this end, particular attention is directed to how they have characterized everyday life as a constellation of work-related and non-work constituents.Design/methodology/approachEvolutionary concept analysis was conducted by focussing on 40 studies on the topic. It is examined how the conceptualizations of everyday life and the relationships between work-related and non-work constituents have been evolved since the 1990s. The analysis is based on the comparison of the similarities and differences between the characterizations of the above constituents.FindingsEarly conceptualizations of everyday life as a context of information behaviour were largely based on Savolainen's model for everyday life information seeking. Later studies have proposed a more holistic approach to everyday life in times when the boundaries between work-related and free-time activities have become blurred, due to the growing use of networked information technologies and telecommuting. Since the late 1990s, the understanding about the nature of everyday life as a context of information behaviour has become more nuanced; thanks to a more detailed identification of the overlaps of work-related and non-work constituents.Research limitations/implicationsAs the study is based on a sample of studies examining the relationships of work-related and non-work constituents, the findings cannot be generalized to concern the contextual nature of everyday life as a whole.Originality/valueThe study pioneers by offering an in-depth analysis of the nature of everyday life as a context of information behaviour.

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Everyday life as an evolving context of information behaviour

Savolainen

2022

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“…Information practice research often focuses on groups and communities, as opposed to individualistic information behaviors. Following Ocepek (2018), Yan and Schroeder (2021), and Cox (2012), we investigate everyday, quotidian information practices (or, as Cox said, information in social practice), recognizing that many activities can and should be seen through an information lens. As Ocepek explained, “the everyday is more than simply non‐work contexts; it is the totality of lived experience, so all aspects of life are represented in the everyday” (p. 399).…”

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Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Vasquez

Oltmann

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In this study, we propose that information precarity leads to and perpetuates information marginalization; communities then engage with marginalization with various types of proactive information practices. For this project, we explore how Puerto Ricans activists responded to information precarity before, during, and after Hurricane Maria. We interviewed activists about their experiences navigating the local and federal institutional environment and their information practices. We show that although Puerto Rico suffered catastrophic damage after Hurricane Maria, its already‐weakened infrastructure, coupled with fiscal instability, had created a state of information precarity for many people before the hurricane hit. We also show how Puerto Rican activists engaged in solidarity‐based, anti‐colonial, and anti‐neoliberal information activities. While previous models argue that people respond to marginalization with defensive/protective behavior, we propose people go beyond just responding; they enact their agency, resourcefulness, collective interests, and locally based knowledge to engage in proactive and subversive information practices. We conclude that marginalized actors who are critical of the structures that marginalize them transform their state of precarity into an alternative space where they can achieve their goals.

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“…As Lloyd (2017) sets out in her proposal for the concept of the fractured [information] landscape, these studies (e.g. Alencar and Tsagkroni, 2019; Caidi and Allard, 2005; Yan and Schroeder, 2021; Buchanan and Jardine, 2022) are more likely to draw on Putnam’s understanding of social capital (2000) and its emphasis on the institutions of a society that support its development, building trust among community members, than on Bourdieu’s approach, with its focus on power. As Wojciechowska (2021) explains, there are several distinct influential conceptualisations of social capital.…”

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Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple

Yerbury

Olsson

Perera

2023

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PurposeThe outcomes of information behaviours have traditionally been conceptualised as use or effects. The adoption of a sociological stance, based on a practices approach, provides the opportunity to challenge these understandings. The non-Western setting further enhances the possibilities for conceptualising the outcomes of information practices as forms of capital.Design/methodology/approachThis ethnographic study uses a Bourdieusian approach to investigate the information practices of diasporic devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple in Sydney, Australia. The insider position of one researcher brought strong insights into the data, while the theoretical approach shared with the other researchers reinforced an outsider perspective.FindingsThe Temple’s online sources and personal communication with other devotees provide a diverse range of sources that devotees use in information-based cultural practices and everyday life information practices. These practices lead to outcomes that can be identified as economic, social and cultural capital. Pin or merit emerges as an important outcome of practices which is not easily accommodated by the concept of outcome, nor by Bourdieu’s categories of capital.Originality/valueAdding to the small number of studies concerned with information practices in a spiritual context, this study shows the value of a Bourdieusian approach in identifying the outcomes of information practices as capital, but highlights the shortcomings of applying Western concepts in non-Western settings. It proposes the possibility of a new form of capital, which will need to be tested rigorously in studies in other spiritual settings.

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Grassroots information divides in China: Theorising everyday information practices in the Global South

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Everyday life as an evolving context of information behaviour

Everyday life as an evolving context of information behaviour

Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple

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