Relevance: An Interdisciplinary and Information Science Perspective

Greisdorf, Howard

doi:10.28945/579

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“…As personal communication comes with a tacit guarantee of relevance (15), all respondents are likely to look at such pointers, which they also report as doing. And, although they report that they appreciate the tips (most often as pointers to Web sites), and that they monitor most of it and unfold some of it, they are rarely considered to be of very high relevance.…”

Section: When the Respondents Modify Habitual Monitoring It Is As A Cmentioning

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Information activities on the Internet in everyday life

Hektor¹

2003

The New Review of Information Behaviour Research

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In this article eight forms of information activities are suggested to describe a model of information behaviour in non-work everyday life. This model builds on literature reviews and data from 10 cases of information users. Findings from applying the model are also presented and their implications discussed. The conclusion states that the Internet takes the role of a complementary information system in everyday life, side by side with existing information systems.

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Section: When the Respondents Modify Habitual Monitoring It Is As A Cmentioning

confidence: 96%

Information activities on the Internet in everyday life

Hektor¹

2003

The New Review of Information Behaviour Research

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“…Rather than viewing relevance as a dichotomous concept (relevant vs. irrelevant), relevance is regarded in our conceptual framework as a matter of degree. This allows for the possibility that knowledge claims from IS research inquiries can be "partially relevant" to some stakeholders (based on [15]). Benbasat and Zmud's [3] notion of relevance in terms of "content" (i.e., interesting, applicable, current) and "style" (i.e.…”

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On the rhetoric and relevance of IS research paradigms: a conceptual framework and some propositions

Khazanchi

Munkvold

2003

36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of The

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This paper discusses the relevance of IS research with respect to the rhetoric associated with three IS research paradigms in use -positivism, constructivism/ interpretivism and critical research. The discussion is framed in terms of the following dimensions: ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions, relationship between theory and practice, and the role of the researcher in the research process. Based on this discussion, the authors propose a theoretical framework to study the relationship of the espoused assumptions of a researcher's perspective with the degree of relevance of their knowledge claims to various stakeholders. In conclusion, some key propositions are elucidated and justified.

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“…Researchers theorising about relevance have come to appreciate that many of these manifestations of relevance exist side-by-side. The dynamic, multi-dimensional view of relevance described by Saracevic [31], Harter [5] and Greisdorf [4], for instance, draws on the work of Schutz [32] and Sperber & Wilson [33], who use the concept of relevance to explain the complexities of human interactions. For these theorists, relevance is an interacting system of multiple, interdependent relevances.…”

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Studying human judgments of relevance

Anderson

2006

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Interaction in Context - IIiX

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This paper discusses the ways participants in a two-year ethnographic study judged relevance when engaged in searching and research tasks. Two experienced academics have been observed evaluating informative artefacts (documents, citations or other representations) encountered in the course of their own research projects. This study sought to explore the criteria and clues used to make decisions about the relevance of retrievable items. In presenting some of the findings from this longitudinal study, the paper demonstrates the value of this approach for enhancing our understanding of the evolving nature of human relevance judgments. The paper will describe how this interaction involves not only the notion of searcher-system communication, but a range of encounters that inform and influence that particular communication at the search interface. The paper suggests future collaboration between system specialists and human behaviour specialists to further our understanding of the socio-material systems in which people make judgments of relevance. Keywordshuman relevance judgments, nature of relevance in contexts, taskbased information behaviour CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKRelevance is a central but much debated concept in Information Science. After more than fifty years of discussion, there is still a lack of consensus about the meaning of the concept. As a result, a number of researchers over the years have observed that, despite its significance, it remains one of the least understood concepts of information retrieval [e.g. 3, 4, 5, 6].Considerable effort has gone into finding ways to relate searcher perspectives of relevance to those embodied in information systems. From a searcher's perspective, relevance assessment is a process by which she constantly shapes, defines and refines searching. This view of relevance is not contained in a system-

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Relevance: An Interdisciplinary and Information Science Perspective

Cited by 36 publications

References 38 publications

Information activities on the Internet in everyday life

Information activities on the Internet in everyday life

On the rhetoric and relevance of IS research paradigms: a conceptual framework and some propositions

Studying human judgments of relevance

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