Intersectional Information Work Practices: Surfacing Care amidst <scp>COVID</scp>‐19

Poole,; Alex, H.

doi:10.1002/pra2.657

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“…One of the most common ways in which the term has been used relates to information in or about crisis, whether this is personal or large‐scale disaster. Thus, authors position certain health and wellbeing crises as ‘information crisis’ due to the work that information does to both generate and mediate the sudden intensity of challenging personal situations such as domestic violence or illness (e.g., Given et al, 2016; Poole, 2022; Westbrook, 2009). On the other end of the scale, the ‘information crisis’ has also been co‐opted in reference to major disasters, including natural and economic crises.…”

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Information in Crisis Mode? A Conceptual Analysis of the Information Crisis Discourse

Hicks,

Noone

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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The concept of ‘information crisis’ is playing an increasingly prominent role within information studies literature and practice. Yet, the term is rarely defined and its meaning often remains both inconsistent and ambiguous. This opacity calls for a greater grounding of the term if it is to become a key concept in the field, including how it operates and what it enforces. This short paper draws upon information studies literature to present a conceptual analysis of the concept of ‘information crisis.’ From this analysis, we argue that an ‘information crisis’ framing is typically used to either establish the status quo, through centring challenges to established information ecosystems, or maintain the status quo, by outlining the operations needed to renew or protect these landscapes. These findings illustrate how ‘information crisis’ can obscure the very contexts of inequality and injustice through which crisis operates and delimits the possibility of changing/disrupting the status quo.

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Section: The Rise and Use Of Information Crisismentioning

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Information in Crisis Mode? A Conceptual Analysis of the Information Crisis Discourse

Hicks,

Noone

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…Much of the research in information studies using the information practices approach have focused on practices in the moment of practice (e.g. Olsson and Lloyd, 2017; Vesga Vinchira, Capital as outcome of information practices 101 2019; Poole, 2022), and although studies may have attempted to address the theoretical basis of a specific approach to information practices, they have done so with limited success. Relatively few studies have gone beyond the moment of practice to explore the outcomes of practices in the context of a theoretical base in sociology.…”

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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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“…metagaming of, much of the information work around the world in a globally unprecedented scale in the beginning of the CoVID-19 pandemic illustrates the difficulty of drawing this fine line. A large number of studies (e.g Nicol et al 2022;Poole 2022;Zimmerman and Ni 2021;Whillans, Perlow and Turek 2021). describe how information work was in one sense repaired but at the same time the magnitude of changes suggest that the shift might better be describe as extension.Extending can involve broadening the scope of information work and eventually bridging contextual boundaries between its individual instances much similarly toBoluk and LeMieux's (2017) idea of metagaming as extending beyond game in space and time, and howCarter et al (2012) refer to metagaming in terms of extending the game universe.…”

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Revisitando los metajuegos y el metajuego: consideraciones teóricas y metodológicas

Huvila¹

2023

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In the context of information behaviour, metagames and metagaming have been used to refer to information work related second-order activities that go beyond the expected ‗game' of informational undertakings. This paper continues earlier discussion on informational metagames and metagaming by revisiting the two concepts. It inquires further into how to theorise informational metagames and metagaming in terms of and in relation to what they do to information work, and discuss briefly issues relating to how to study informational metagames and metagaming empirically. It is proposed that metagaming can be conceived as a form of resistance, repair and extension of information work. As an ofteninvisible activity, the empirical study of metagaming is complicated by the difficulties to identify them, make them visible and to demarcate when an activity qualifies as a metagame. Some of the potential benefit of using metagaming as a lens to inquire into information activities are that it can help to shed light on the constituents and underpinnings of both games and their related metagames and to showcase and explicate the complexity and multi-normativity of information work related second-order activities.

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Intersectional Information Work Practices: Surfacing Care amidst COVID‐19

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References 54 publications

Information in Crisis Mode? A Conceptual Analysis of the Information Crisis Discourse

Information in Crisis Mode? A Conceptual Analysis of the Information Crisis Discourse

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

Revisitando los metajuegos y el metajuego: consideraciones teóricas y metodológicas

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