Information Practices in Professional Life
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Summary, in English
This keynote concerns social aspects of information seeking and use in professional life and how these are made explicit in information practices. In particular, the keynote focuses on how professionals’ activities in relation to information artefacts, as well as the artefacts in themselves, are socially constructed in context-bound practices. Arguments in favour of an interest in peoples’ information practices rather than in their information seeking and use seen as a cognitive phenomenon are put forward. The LIS concept of cognitive authority is used in relation to the epistemological position of pragmatism. Examples are taken primarily from the author’s empirical research on nurses. The presentation concludes with a call for an increased interest in the materiality of information seeking and use by proposing important research questions for the future.
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
16-25
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of 2008 Annual Symposium of RCKC
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Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba
Ämne
- Information Studies
Nyckelord
- Information Practices
- Expertise
- Pragmatism
- Nursing
- Cognitive Authority
Conference name
the Annual Symposium at Research Center for Knowledge Community
Conference date
2008-02-19
Conference place
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Information Studies