...Piyapat Jarusawat Purpose This study examines indigenous weaving in Ban Huay Tong Kor, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand, from an information studies perspective. It explores how information practices connect cultural identity, environmental stewardship, and governance within a knowledge ecosystem...

..., interpreted and managed political information in algorithmically mediated social media environments. Findings Five interrelated themes were identified: modes of encounter, information evaluation, emotional engagement, sense-making and interpretation, and information practices. The findings show...

...Elaine Kong Purpose This paper reviews how trust, credibility, and cognitive authority are understood in research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) information practices among Chinese immigrant cancer survivors. It argues that this literature is best understood as a process...

...Joseph Winberry; Griffin Powell Purpose Few if any information practice frameworks enact a two-way dialogue between marginalized populations and institutions to foster mutual understanding and enact positive, meaningful and sustainable change. In response, this article conceptualizes a new...

...Lilach Alon; Tali Malinoff; Inbar Levkovich Purpose This study examines wartime news consumption as a form of emotion regulation enacted through everyday information practices. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative descriptive study using the framework method. We conducted 19 semi...

... environments. The research aims to reveal the co-evolutionary mechanisms between user agency and technological affordances in everyday information practices. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on in-depth interviews with 20 active GenAI users in China, the study collected 193 Affordance Enactment Episodes...

.../legalcode Information practices Identity work Conflict management Professional identity Alienation One of the most fundamental questions any person can ask is, “Who am I?” Answers to this question link people to a social structure and common culture, with its shared understanding of what...

... affecting the information practices of individuals and communities. Design/methodology/approach We describe the conceptual background of information precarity, information practices, microaggressions and race-based trauma, then illustrate these concepts through interviews and focus groups from a network...

...Emma May Purpose This paper aims to explore the relevance of theoretical developments from critical disability studies to information practices scholarship, particularly that which is attuned to how systems of power and inequality create barriers to information. More specifically, this paper aims...

... “the markings and evidence [of] state-sanctioned identity markers” that “fail to account for the moving body” (2020 , p. 10–14). Information and communication technologies Archives Digital communications Embodied knowledge Information practices Digital curation LGBTQ Content creators Queer history...

...Ville Jylhä; Noora Hirvonen; Jutta Haider Purpose This study addresses how algorithmic recommendations and their affordances shape everyday information practices among young people. Design/methodology/approach Thematic interviews were conducted with 20 Finnish young people aged 15–16 years...

... as a socio-technical process and discussed literature within and beyond Information Science. The work presents new understandings of the interplay between spirituality, embodied information practices, physical and online social interactions, analogue and digital media before, during and after these journeys...

...-Western setting further enhances the possibilities for conceptualising the outcomes of information practices as forms of capital. Design/methodology/approach This ethnographic study uses a Bourdieusian approach to investigate the information practices of diasporic devotees and monks of a Theravada...

... patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative study forms part of a broader research project, examining how information literacy and information practices unfolded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Phase Three of this project, which forms the subject of this paper...

... behaviour as well as how people draw from this advice to regulate their own social activity. Information literacy Risk Research agenda Information work Information practices Informational risk Risk plays a prominent role within many societies today. Associated with the growth...

... of a popular Finnish discussion forum were examined with a focus on health-related threads. Observational notes and thread content were analysed with a focus on the forum's affordances for health information practices. The findings indicate that the forum's affordances including anonymity, persistence...

... behaviors (IBs) of performers and artisan/vendors in American Renaissance faires. This research is exploratory in nature and seeks to discover how existing IB theories, including embodied information practices, can explain the information seeking and use of performers and artisan vendors working in American...

... and can therefore be changed. Thus, this theory provides conceptual tools for researchers to investigate the information experience of individuals moving between conflicting information practices, and for civil society actors and policymakers to document exclusionary information practices and design...

...Huan Zhong; Zhengbiao Han; Preben Hansen Purpose This systematic literature review aims to elaborate the research progress of information practices to help other researchers attain a more holistic and comprehensive understanding of the field. Design/methodology/approach Following a systematic...

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