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Conceptions of place in the information practices of the Mahamewnawa Asapuwa Temple community Mahamewnawa Asapuwa寺庙社区信息实践中的位置概念

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2237

H. Yerbury, Pethigamage Perera, M. Olsson

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Information needs on research data creation 研究数据创建的信息需求

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2208

Lisa Börjesson, Isto Huvila, Olle Sköld

{"title":"Information needs on research data creation","authors":"Lisa Börjesson, Isto Huvila, Olle Sköld","doi":"10.47989/irisic2208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2208","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers’ data related information needs are growing. This paper reports the findings of a study with archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals focussing on data reuse related meta-information needs.Methods. Interviews with (N=)10 archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals. Qualitative coding and content analysis. Four types of paradata needs (data on processes, e.g. data creation) are identified, including 1) scope, 2) provenance, 3) methods and 4) knowledge organisation and representation paradata. Knowledge organisation and representation paradata has been least explored both in research and practises so far. The findings point to a need to develop the understanding of the needs and means of documentation of knowledge organisation and representation. The findings contribute to the data literacy of researchers producing and using data descriptions, and to the study of how paradata can be created and used. Further, the findings indicate that distance-to-data is a significant parameter in determining whether information needs are continuous or discrete. Further, the most likely type of reuse should guide the level and type of paradata. Finally, the findings underline that in spite of the comprehensiveness of available meta-information, it will be incomplete. Complementary means — including collaboration with data creators and meta-information extraction approaches — are needed to increase information reusability.","PeriodicalId":47431,"journal":{"name":"Information Research-An International Electronic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80704935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Theory usage in empirical research in ISIC conference papers (1996-2020) ISIC会议论文实证研究中的理论运用(1996-2020)

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2227

A. VanScoy, Heidi E. Julien, Annette Buckley, Jon Goodell

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Socially-distant fasting: information practices of young muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic 远离社交的斋戒:2019冠状病毒病大流行期间年轻穆斯林的信息实践

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2235

Nadia Caidi, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Priyank Chandra, R. Jamali

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Young adults’ information behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot study 2019冠状病毒病大流行期间年轻人的信息行为:一项试点研究

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2223

J. Bartlett, Aaron D. Bowen-Ziecheck

{"title":"Young adults’ information behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot study","authors":"J. Bartlett, Aaron D. Bowen-Ziecheck","doi":"10.47989/irisic2223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2223","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a pilot study exploring the information behaviour of young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pilot study data were collected using semi-structured interviews with five undergraduate students. Questions included what information was needed regarding COVID-19, where and how it was obtained, and how it was evaluated. Analysis. Coding followed a thematic analysis approach. At this early stage, coding involved emergent open coding to identify themes within the data. The information most needed by the participants related to local policies and restrictions (e.g., lockdowns, mask mandates, university policies) as well as policies relating to international travel. The main health related topic was where to get vaccinated. Participants preferred government, university, and mainstream media sources, while largely avoiding social media. They reported various approaches to determining the credibility of sources, including relying on known sites, and prioritizing first-hand sources such as government and public health. Participants also reported that their credibility assessment varied geographically, with government and mainstream media more or less trusted depending on location. The findings provide insight into young adults’ information behaviour, and provide the basis for the continuation of this study.","PeriodicalId":47431,"journal":{"name":"Information Research-An International Electronic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90443491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What's interrupting your search? 是什么打断了你的搜索?

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2202

Mengjia Lu, Morgan Harvey, O. Hoeber

{"title":"What's interrupting your search?","authors":"Mengjia Lu, Morgan Harvey, O. Hoeber","doi":"10.47989/irisic2202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2202","url":null,"abstract":"Web search is a common activity in a mobile context. However, the nature of performing tasks in a mobile environment means there is the risk interruption. While the effects of interruptions on mobile search have been studied in recent years, the nature of such interruptions occurring in real-world mobile settings have not. Using a diary study approach, we collected data from 20 participants on the everyday interruptions they faced conducting mobile web searches over a 10-day period. We used inductive open coding to categorise the nature of the interruptions assigning each interruption to a category/sub-category combination. We then used a deductive coding approach to classify each interruption as being either internally or externally-induced; and mobile or non mobile-specific. We found a broad range of interruptions, which we have organised into an extensive taxonomy. Further, a substantial proportion of the interruptions are externally-induced and more than half are unique to mobile contexts. The empirical evidence of the nature of mobile search interruptions in our findings provide insight into the complex environment of mobile search, information upon which to base future mobile search studies (e.g., surveys, controlled laboratory studies), and motivation for the study of search interface designs that can help mitigate the effects of such interruptions.","PeriodicalId":47431,"journal":{"name":"Information Research-An International Electronic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77351255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring information behaviour and meaningful experience amongst hikers on the West Highland Way 探索徒步旅行者在西高地路上的信息行为和有意义的体验

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2204

Keith Munro, P. Innocenti, M. Dunlop

{"title":"Exploring information behaviour and meaningful experience amongst hikers on the West Highland Way","authors":"Keith Munro, P. Innocenti, M. Dunlop","doi":"10.47989/irisic2204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2204","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the information behaviour of hikers on the West Highland Way in Scotland by exploring meaningful experiences described by fifty participants walking the route. Using an ethnographic approach, participants were interviewed in the field at sites on the West Highland Way using semi-structured questions. Qualitative results are discussed and analysed using inductive thematic analysis and links to literature are established. Two types of meaningful experience were found in the interview data: connections with nature and social connections. Profound natural connections were found to feature embodied information from sensory interaction with the environment, resulting in a contemplative mindset and offering well-being benefits. Social connections with family, friends and fellow walkers were also described as meaningful, situating the activity as a ‘higher thing’ and demonstrating further well-being benefits. This initial study indicates that natural and social connections are key to meaningful experience in walking the West Highland Way. A broader information behaviour study based on this work will further explore the use of embodied information, contemplation in information science, serious leisure as a ‘higher thing’, and well-being benefits.","PeriodicalId":47431,"journal":{"name":"Information Research-An International Electronic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72547005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Indicative findings from a study of information behaviour in digital business ideation: insights from the developing world 数字商业创意中的信息行为研究的指示性发现:来自发展中国家的见解

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2233

Suraj Ibrahim, R. Marcella, Alan MacLennan

{"title":"Indicative findings from a study of information behaviour in digital business ideation: insights from the developing world","authors":"Suraj Ibrahim, R. Marcella, Alan MacLennan","doi":"10.47989/irisic2233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2233","url":null,"abstract":"nt=\"Indicative findings from a study of information behaviour in digital business ideationr\" /> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Though a wealth of information behaviour research has been undertaken in various contexts over the years, less has been done on entrepreneurship. In particular, there is a lack of literature around the ideation component in the early stages of business formation. This study seeks to address the theoretical and empirical gap within this research stream, bringing together information, innovation, and creativity theory, as lenses through which to explore the phenomenon. Twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with business founders. Participants operated in a variety of segments of the digital technology spectrum. Critical Realism and Grounded Theory were used as theoretical and practical data techniques, using abduction in the theoretical redescription of concepts (codes) identified in the empirical data, and retroduction to identify the necessary contextual conditions for a particular causal mechanism to take effect and result in the observed empirical trends. Indicative results show several societal and personal factors play a role in shaping the information behaviour of digital entrepreneurs. These factors include but are not limited to poverty, parenting, and unequal power between mentors and mentees. While this research project is ongoing, early findings emerge in previously unexplored aspects of information behaviour such as the importance of reading passion and early exposure to digital devices amongst digital entrepreneurs.","PeriodicalId":47431,"journal":{"name":"Information Research-An International Electronic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86844586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Understanding interagency relationships in the sharing of government data: a meta-analysis 理解政府数据共享中的机构间关系:元分析

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2246

Lihong Zhou, Jiangfeng Hu, Jie Xu

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Making space for the future: the importance of deletion for librarianship and information science and the information society 为未来腾出空间:删除对图书馆学、情报学和信息社会的重要性

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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.47989/irisic2219

Helene Hellmich, J. Dinneen

{"title":"Making space for the future: the importance of deletion for librarianship and information science and the information society","authors":"Helene Hellmich, J. Dinneen","doi":"10.47989/irisic2219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2219","url":null,"abstract":"The information society generally, and information studies specifically, are understandably concerned with productive actions done with data and information, like preservation, access, and (re)use over time. While such concerns are important and their related activities are clearly valuable, we will soon be facing limits to storage and related resources, and so information scholars and practitioners must more fully consider and support the complementary part of the information lifecycle: deletion. We outline the growing necessity of data and information deletion for social and environmental sustainability through several example concerns. We then consider several challenges of and to deleting that must be considered and addressed, from societal to individual scales, by drawing on works in information behaviour, personal information management, human-computer interaction, and the history, philosophy, and ethics of information. Deletion is an understudied phenomenon of growing importance, and although it has a broadly negative perception in comparison to preservation, it has some notable advantages for individuals and society. Information scholars and practitioners have an important role to play in understanding and supporting deletion; recommendations for each are provided here.","PeriodicalId":47431,"journal":{"name":"Information Research-An International Electronic Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85102875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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