...Rebecca D. Frank Purpose This article investigates the construction of risk within trustworthy digital repository audits. It contends that risk is a social construct, and social factors influence how stakeholders in digital preservation processes comprehend and react to risk. Design/methodology...

...Alison Hicks Purpose The purpose of this conceptual paper is to suggest that the growing sociocultural theorisation of risk calls for a more robust research focus on the role that information and in particular, information literacy, plays in mediating hazards and danger. Design/methodology...

... of risk for digital repositories and the repositories' collections. This article brings new insights to digital preservation by applying social theories of risk to trustworthy digital repository audit and certification processes, with an emphasis on the concept of DC. Designated Community...

..., we are interested in how people transitioned into newly created pandemic information environments including how people's information literacy practices emerged in the context of the risks and uncertainties that were produced through the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the community. Within this framing...