“…However, it is not just the impoverished or marginalized that experience small worlds. A review of the literature shows that Chatman's theory of small worlds has been used to explore the situational information behaviours of post-disaster communities (Slagle, 2010) as well as the information practices of non-governmental organizations (Connor & Yerbury, 2017), Catholic clergy (Dankasa, 2017), virtual communities, and feminist booksellers (Burnett et al, 2001). Additionally, Chatman's theory has been applied in other contexts both to better understand various aspects of information behaviour Savolainen, 2009;Savolainen, 2016) and to better understand the often complex relationship between information and society (Burnett, Jaeger, & Thompson, 2008;Jaeger & Burnett, 2010).…”