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Information avoidance: A critical conceptual review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24968

Alison Hicks, Pamela McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, Ian Ruthven, Gunilla Widén

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Conceptual models of the sociotechnical: Introduction to special issue

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24958

Katrina Fenlon, Peter Organisciak, Andrea Thomer, Nicholas M. Weber

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Exploring the digital gray zone of online medicinal markets emerging from search 探索由搜索产生的在线医药市场的数字灰色地带

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-12 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24956

Kristofer Rolf Söderström, Olof Sundin

{"title":"Exploring the digital gray zone of online medicinal markets emerging from search","authors":"Kristofer Rolf Söderström, Olof Sundin","doi":"10.1002/asi.24956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24956","url":null,"abstract":"This explorative study investigates the emergence of gray zone markets from search engines amidst the global expansion of online markets. With the analytical approach of infrastructural inversion, we examine how the search infrastructure constructs access to a gray zone market including both authorized online pharmacies and unauthorized vendors. Using Sweden and Google Search as a case, we explore the online presence of three products (vitamin D, paracetamol, and Viagra), through search engine result page analysis, web crawling, and network analysis. Infrastructural inversion unveils the typically invisible mechanisms of search engines, considering user queries, algorithmic priorities, SEO practices, and pharmacy regulations. We find gray zones only emerge in searches for erectile disfunction medicinal products and information, where unauthorized vendors successfully competed for visibility in search engine rankings. A complex web of conditions can steer consumers toward gray zone markets, complicating the access to safe and regulated medicinal products. This can expose individuals to risks associated with unverified medicinal products, but also challenges the integrity of the online health information infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 13","pages":"1498-1514"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24956","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Acknowledging data-driven, non-data, and data-decentered cultures 什么时候数据共享是答案，什么时候（通常）不是：承认数据驱动、非数据和以数据为中心的文化

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24957

Isto Huvila, Luanne S. Sinnamon

{"title":"When data sharing is an answer and when (often) it is not: Acknowledging data-driven, non-data, and data-decentered cultures","authors":"Isto Huvila, Luanne S. Sinnamon","doi":"10.1002/asi.24957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24957","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary research and innovation policies and advocates of data-intensive research paradigms continue to urge increased sharing of research data. Such paradigms are underpinned by a pro-data, normative data culture that has become dominant in the contemporary discourse. Earlier research on research data sharing has directed little attention to its alternatives as more than a deficit. The present study aims to provide insights into researchers' perspectives, rationales and practices of (non-)sharing of research data in relation to their research practices. We address two research questions, (RQ1) what underpinning patterns can be identified in researchers' (non-)sharing of research data, and (RQ2) how are attitudes and data-sharing linked to researchers' general practices of conducting their research. We identify and describe data-decentered culture and non-data culture as alternatives and parallels to the data-driven culture, and describe researchers de-inscriptions of how they resist and appropriate predominant notions of data in their data practices by problematizing the notion of data, asserting exceptions to the general case of data sharing, and resisting or opting out from data sharing.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 13","pages":"1515-1530"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24957","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142861285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Negative consequences of information gatekeeping through algorithmic technologies: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24955

Devendra Potnis, Iman Tahamtan, Luke McDonald

{"title":"Negative consequences of information gatekeeping through algorithmic technologies: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper","authors":"Devendra Potnis, Iman Tahamtan, Luke McDonald","doi":"10.1002/asi.24955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24955","url":null,"abstract":"Rarely any study investigates how information gatekeeping through the solutions and services enabled by algorithms, hereafter referred to as algorithmic technologies (AT), creates negative consequences for the users. To fill this gap, this state-of-the-art review analyzes 229 relevant articles from diverse academic disciplines. We employed thematic analysis to identify, analyze, classify, and reveal the chain reactions among the negative consequences. We found that the gatekeeping of information (text, audio, video, and graphics) through AT like artificial intelligence (e.g., chatbots, large language models, machine learning, robots), decision support systems (used by banks, grocery stores, police, etc.), hashtags, online gaming platforms, search technologies (e.g., voice assistants, ChatGPT), and Web 3.0 (e.g., Internet of Things, non-fungible tokens) creates or reinforces cognitive vulnerability, economic divide and financial vulnerability, information divide, physical vulnerability, psychological vulnerability, and social divide virtually and in the offline world. Theoretical implications include the hierarchical depiction of the chain reactions among the primary, secondary, and tertiary divides and vulnerabilities. To mitigate these negative consequences, we call for concerted efforts using top-down strategies for governments, organizations, and technology experts to attain more transparency, accountability, ethical behavior, and moral practices, and bottom-up strategies for users to be more alert, discerning, critical, and proactive.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"76 1","pages":"262-288"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Sociotechnical governance of misinformation: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24953

Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Xiaohua Awa Zhu, Shengan Yang

{"title":"Sociotechnical governance of misinformation: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper","authors":"Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Xiaohua Awa Zhu, Shengan Yang","doi":"10.1002/asi.24953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24953","url":null,"abstract":"Misinformation is a complex and urgent sociotechnical problem that requires meaningful governance, in addition to technical efforts aimed at detection or classification and intervention or literacy efforts aimed at promoting awareness and identification. This review draws on interdisciplinary literature—spanning information science, computer science, management, law, political science, public policy, journalism, communications, psychology, and sociology—to deliver an adaptable, descriptive governance model synthesized from past scholarship on the governance of misinformation. Crossing disciplines and contexts of study and cases, we characterize: the complexity and impact of misinformation as a governance challenge, what has been managed and governed relative to misinformation, the institutional structure of different governance parameters, and empirically identified sources of success and failure in different governance models. Our approach to support this review is based on systematic, structured literature review methods to synthesize and compare insights drawn from conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative empirical works published in or translated into English from 1991 to the present. This review contributes a model for misinformation governance research, an agenda for future research, and recommendations for contextually-responsive and holistic governance.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"76 1","pages":"289-325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24953","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How games can support misinformation education: A sociocultural perspective 游戏如何支持错误信息教育：社会文化视角

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24954

Stacey Wedlake, Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee

{"title":"How games can support misinformation education: A sociocultural perspective","authors":"Stacey Wedlake, Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee","doi":"10.1002/asi.24954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24954","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses a sociocultural perspective, which views literacy as embedded in people's daily practices and shaped by social contexts, to explore how a misinformation escape room can support learning about misinformation. While the sociocultural perspective has a rich theoretical foundation, it has rarely been used to examine, much less evaluate, information and media literacy interventions. In this paper, we posit that the topic of misinformation makes a strong case for using the sociocultural model and explore a misinformation escape room through this lens. We present findings of a nationwide study of an online misinformation escape room with post-game debrief discussion conducted at 10 public libraries that hosted 53 game sessions involving 211 players. The mixed methods study finds the game and accompanying debrief supported players in reflecting upon social media platform infrastructures, the psychological and emotional dimensions of misinformation, and how their personal behaviors intersect with online misinformation. We discuss how the sociocultural perspective can enrich our understanding of the role played by certain attributes of the game—narrative, debrief, and collaboration—thereby providing insights for the design of media and information literacy interventions.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 13","pages":"1480-1497"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Embodied and dialogical basis for understanding humans with information: A sustainable view 用信息理解人类的体现和对话基础：可持续发展观

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24952

Anna Suorsa

{"title":"Embodied and dialogical basis for understanding humans with information: A sustainable view","authors":"Anna Suorsa","doi":"10.1002/asi.24952","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24952","url":null,"abstract":"In this conceptual paper I suggest that hermeneutic phenomenological view on humans in the world can lay a premise to understand our embodied, dialogical way of living in the world with information of all kinds. This gives us ethical stance to the development of information-intensive world and points out our limits as human beings. First, I explicate the implicit and explicit traces of phenomenology in the field of Library and Information Studies (LIS). After that, I continue to explicate how human beings and their relation to the world of information can be conceptualized also by the means of understanding, and dialogicality, with hermeneutic phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, 1985 and Hans-Georg Gadamer, 2004 T. Then, I introduce the concepts and conceptions of understanding human beings as living bodies in the world, based on hermeneutic phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 2006. Together, these form a strong basis for understanding humans with information in their environment. Finally, I explicate why it is essential and meaningful to understand humans as embodied and dialogical, to be able to understand and examine information use, action, and interaction in our field in different contexts critically and sustainably.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 13","pages":"1466-1479"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24952","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142254507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications: Evaluation of direct citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations, and PubMed-related article score 研究出版物网络中基于种子的信息检索：对直接引用、书目耦合、联合引用和 PubMed 相关文章得分的评估

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24951

Peter Sjögårde, Per Ahlgren

{"title":"Seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications: Evaluation of direct citations, bibliographic coupling, co-citations, and PubMed-related article score","authors":"Peter Sjögårde, Per Ahlgren","doi":"10.1002/asi.24951","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24951","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution, we deal with seed-based information retrieval in networks of research publications. Using systematic reviews as a baseline, and publication data from the NIH Open Citation Collection, we compare the performance of the three citation-based approaches direct citation, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling with respect to recall and precision measures. In addition, we include the PubMed-related article score as well as combined approaches in the comparison. We also provide a fairly comprehensive review of earlier research in which citation relations have been used for information retrieval purposes. The results show an advantage for co-citation over bibliographic coupling and direct citation. However, combining the three approaches outperforms the exclusive use of co-citation in the study. The results further indicate, in line with previous research, that combining citation-based approaches with textual approaches enhances the performance of seed-based information retrieval. The results from the study may guide approaches combining citation-based and textual approaches in their choice of citation similarity measures. We suggest that future research use more structured approaches to evaluate methods for seed-based retrieval of publications, including comparative approaches as well as the elaboration of common data sets and baselines for evaluation.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 13","pages":"1453-1465"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24951","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How fast do scholarly papers get read by various user groups? A longitudinal and cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of Mendeley readership 不同用户群体阅读学术论文的速度如何？对 Mendeley 读者群演变的纵向和跨学科分析

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1002/asi.24950

Zhichao Fang, Chonkit Ho, Zekun Han, Puqing Wu

{"title":"How fast do scholarly papers get read by various user groups? A longitudinal and cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of Mendeley readership","authors":"Zhichao Fang, Chonkit Ho, Zekun Han, Puqing Wu","doi":"10.1002/asi.24950","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24950","url":null,"abstract":"To provide a dynamic perspective on the evolution of Mendeley readership, this study conducts an 8-year longitudinal analysis of approximately 3.4 million scholarly papers published in 2015. Mendeley readership data were collected annually from 2016 to 2023 for the sampled papers to analyze the temporal accumulation patterns of readership following publication. The results indicate that Mendeley readership exhibits a speed advantage compared to citations and a prevalence advantage compared to Twitter mentions, demonstrating both initial prevalence and sustained growth on a yearly basis. However, the patterns of accumulation vary across disciplines, with papers in Biomedical and Health Sciences showing the fastest accrual of extensive Mendeley readership data. Leveraging demographic data provided by Mendeley, this study further investigates how different user groups—categorized by academic status, disciplinary affiliation, and geographic location—engage with papers across various disciplines. The findings highlight Mendeley readership as a rapid and substantial altmetric, yet they also emphasize the need to interpret the nature of the attention captured by Mendeley readership with caution, considering its potential biases introduced by the varying engagement levels of different user groups across disciplines.","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 13","pages":"1433-1450"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24950","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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