Sharing “happy” information

Tinto, Fiona; Ruthven, Ian

doi:10.1002/asi.23581

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“…Research on information access, seeking, and representation in leisure settings, migration, healthcare, and the home has expanded information science beyond contexts such as schools and libraries, which continue to be focal points in the field (Allard 2015;Cox and Blake 2011;Dali 2013;Given et al 2016;Gorichanaz 2015;Hartel 2010;Lloyd 2014a;Loudon, Buchanan, and Ruthven 2016;McKenzie 2010;Quirke 2015;Tinto and Ruthven 2016;Huvila 2013;Lloyd 2009;Molopyane and Fourie 2015;Pilerot 2016;Takhteyev 2012). Although religious practice is another important part of everyday life (refer to, e.g., Statistics Canada 2013), with the exception of a small number of studies on information seeking and use among Christian clergy (e.g., Michels 2014;Roland 2012;Roland and Wicks 2009), research about the role of information in religious practice remains marginal.…”

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Information Sharing as Embodied Practice in a Context of Conversion to Islam

Guzik¹

2018

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This article works to extend two emerging areas in information scholarship: religious practice and embodiment. By reporting on completed research about information practices among Muslim converts in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area (Guzik 2017), this article reveals how information is shared in the context of religious transitions that take place within a contentious political landscape. Research was guided by ethnography and involved participant observation, semistructured interviews, and timeline drawings (Bagnoli 2009; Sheridan, Chamberlain, and Dupuis 2011). While additional themes related to navigation and authority were identified through the use of constructivist grounded theory (Charmaz 2006), this article focuses specifically on how research participants express and exchange information through nonwritten sources such as clothing items, spoken words, and creative products. The article considers the visibility of information when it is carried on the body as religious symbols, and the implications that this visibility has for accessing expertise, places of worship, and secular public spaces. It also highlights how creative pursuits allow Muslim converts to become information producers and publishers, rather than mere consumers. These roles of production may involve written documents (e.g. sacred texts, scholarly articles, blog posts), but they are primarily expressed through physical actions and spoken words.

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Information Sharing as Embodied Practice in a Context of Conversion to Islam

Guzik¹

2018

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“…As in experimental settings, experiencing gratitude was reported to encourage future prosocial behavior among both beneficiaries and benefactors (McCullough et al, ), and among other community members through third‐party influence (Layous et al, ). Motives were reported as seemingly altruistic, akin to “gift giving” (Tinto & Ruthven, ). However, several participants reported enjoying feeling socially rewarded (see Grant & Gino, ), with some expressing a clear desire for reward and increased social standing.…”

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“…For example, Dantonio et al (2012) found social media users shared information they encountered serendipitously altruistically. Similarly, Tinto and Ruthven (2016) found sharers of "happy" information (information that evokes happiness within the sharer) gained pleasure from making others happy. They identified "giftgiving" as an important ritual, which did not depend on others' reactions to the giving.…”

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“I can't express my thanks enough”: The “gratitude cycle” in online communities

Makri

Turner

2019

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Gratitude is a fundamental aspect of social interaction that positively influences emotional and social well‐being. It is also crucial for promoting online community health by motivating participation. However, how gratitude occurs and can be encouraged in online communities is not yet well understood. This exploratory study investigated how online community users experience gratitude, focusing on how gratitude expression and acknowledgment occurs, can break down or can be reinforced. Semistructured Critical Incident interviews were conducted with 8 users of various online communities, including discussion and support groups, social Q&A sites, and review sites, eliciting 17 memorable examples of giving and receiving thanks online. The findings gave rise to a process model of gratitude in online communities—the “gratitude cycle,” which provides a detailed, holistic understanding of the experience of gratitude online that can inform the design of online community platforms that aim to motivate users to perpetuate the cycle. An enriched understanding of gratitude in online communities can help ensure future platforms better support the expression and acknowledgment of thanks, encouraging participation.

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“…To speak of other outcomes of information, Sköld () presents a study of memory practices in an online gaming community, wherein people share screen captures from their game and associated stories as modes of reminiscing and constructing knowledge. Finally, Tinto and Ruthven () give an example regarding information sharing; they explored the methods and factors of sharing so‐called happy information (that is, that which creates a sense of happiness when shared). Alhough these practices are rooted in pleasure, which is at risk of being classified as mere hedonism, Tinto and Ruthven discuss how sharing happy information can enhance human relationships, and be shared with that intent, thus constituting deeper personal meaning than at first may appear.…”

Section: Personal Meaning and Information Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Information experience in personally meaningful activities

Gorichanaz

2019

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Information behavior in activities that are freely chosen has been little explored. This article conceptualizes personally meaningful activities as a site for information behavior research. Personal meaning is discussed as a necessity for human beings. In the information age, there is an ethical directive for developers of information technology to promote and afford personally meaningful activities. This article builds on discussions of the pleasurable and profound in information science conceptually and empirically. First, it argues for the necessity of phenomenology in these discussions, which heretofore has been mostly absent. Next, it presents results from a qualitative, empirical study on information in personally meaningful activities. The empirical study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to examine information experience in three domains of personal meaning: Bible reading, ultramarathon running, and art-making. The following themes emerge and are discussed: identity, central practice, curiosity, and presence. Opportunities for technological development and further research are outlined.

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Sharing “happy” information

Cited by 19 publications

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Information Sharing as Embodied Practice in a Context of Conversion to Islam

Information Sharing as Embodied Practice in a Context of Conversion to Islam

“I can't express my thanks enough”: The “gratitude cycle” in online communities

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