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Metatheories, orientations, paradigms and frameworks for human information behavior

INSC 510. Metatheories, orientations, paradigms and frameworks for human information behavior. Discussion. Metatheories, orientations, paradigms and frameworks? Does Information Science have successive, defining theoretical models and frameworks?. Traditional/ Physical User oriented

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Metatheories, orientations, paradigms and frameworks for human information behavior

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  1. INSC 510 Metatheories, orientations, paradigms and frameworks for human information behavior

  2. Discussion • Metatheories, orientations, paradigms and frameworks? • Does Information Science have successive, defining theoretical models and frameworks?

  3. Traditional/ Physical • User oriented • Cognitive viewpoint • Sensemaking • Social constructionism Human Information Behavior

  4. System oriented paradigm - physical paradigm; information transfer model, empiricism • user oriented paradigm • Cognitive view • Sensemaking • Social constructionism constructivist

  5. System oriented paradigm • Objective view of information • Users seen as mechanistic and passive • User behavior predicted according to general variables - age, income • Atomistic - focus on user’s interaction with system; point of contact only • focus on external behaviors; contact with system is indication of need and behavior • individuality regarded as chaotic • quantitative

  6. User oriented paradigm • subjective information • constructivist active user • situationality • wholistic views of experience • internal cognitions • systematic individuality • qualitative research

  7. The cognitive view…(B.C. Brookes) • Any processing of information - whether perceptual or symbolic - is mediated by a system of categories or concepts, which, for the processing device, are a model of its world (De Mey) K[s] + i = k[s + s] Modified knowledge structure Knowledge structure Information

  8. The cognitive view (Ingwersen) The world model consists of knowledge structures. These are determined by the individual and social/ collective experiences, education and training etc.

  9. Sensemaking Questions answered, ideas formed, resources obtained Discontinuity Condition Gap bridged Situation Uses (Helps) Gap faced Strategies used info values sought

  10. Sensemaking moment Situation Each moment is potentially a sensemaking moment Circling the experience Gap Use (Help)

  11. Social Constructionism • The primary human reality is about people in conversation • communication and conversation are used to structure and organize social reality • focus on public and social not private and subjective

  12. Social contructionism • Emphasizes the negotiation of meaning • reality construction through discourse • there is no versionless reality • rejects monologism and replaces this with dialogism • the most important things take place in interaction, in discursive practices between people not within the individual cut off from his or her social relationships

  13. Social constructionism • Assumes that we construct versions of reality between ourselves • Knowledge is something people do together rather than an individual possession

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