2016
DOI: 10.1177/0165551516632659
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Seeking information in circles: The application of Chatman’s life in the round theory to the information small world of Catholic clergy in northern Nigeria

Abstract: This study explores Chatman's proposition of the theory of life in the round that members of a small world who live in the round will not cross the boundaries of their world to seek information. The study tests Chatman's proposition to find out whether it is applicable to the special population of Catholic clergy. The study was conducted with Catholic clergy from Northern Nigeria. Findings show these clergy are not likely to cross boundaries of their small worlds to seek information about their ministry or pri… Show more

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“…Zhu et al (2015) , on the other hand, find that the number of times a reference is mentioned in the body of a citing paper is the main indicator used to determine an author's academic influence. The works covered by this research which most frequently cited Chatman (1996) and Chatman (1999) were in fact Veinot (2009) and Dankasa (2017). IPT and LRT provided the theoretical basis in both cases, thereby indicating a high degree of assimilation of Chatman's theories.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
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“…Zhu et al (2015) , on the other hand, find that the number of times a reference is mentioned in the body of a citing paper is the main indicator used to determine an author's academic influence. The works covered by this research which most frequently cited Chatman (1996) and Chatman (1999) were in fact Veinot (2009) and Dankasa (2017). IPT and LRT provided the theoretical basis in both cases, thereby indicating a high degree of assimilation of Chatman's theories.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…A total of 85 documents (53.8%) contained one theoretical incident, while 63 (39.9%) contained between two and five incidents; with ten documents (6.3%) identified as containing six or more incidents. The document identified as containing the greatest number of theoretical incidents was Dankasa (2017), which used LRT as the theoretical basis for the research design in the same way that Veinot (2009) used IPT.…”
Section: Frequency Of Citationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…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).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Professionals can also find comfort in the fact that those who share their worldview will be better able to help them. For example, Dankasa (2017) finds that for some matters, such as issues regarding the Church, most clergy prefer to seek information from other clergy rather than lay people (p. 253).…”
Section: Question 3: What Are the Potential Advantages And Disadvantamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A third often‐used source for categorization is the substance domain, which answers the following question: “What is the main domain that defines the task?” This factor has been particularly used in modeling information seeking for one specific professional group in one study; for example, nurses (Johannisson & Sundin, ), vault inspectors (Veinot, ), clergy (Dankasa, ), or researchers (Kumpulainen & Järvelin, ), and city administration (Saastamoinen, Kumpulainen, & Järvelin, ). For instance, all business‐related tasks belong to the same substance domain of business regardless of their goal or intention.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%