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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.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

16-25

Publication/Series

Proceedings of 2008 Annual Symposium of RCKC

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba

Topic

  • Information Studies

Keywords

  • 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

Research group

  • Information Studies