Resonance and the experience of relevance

Ruthven, Ian (2020) Resonance and the experience of relevance. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72 (5). pp. 554-569. ISSN 2330-1643 (https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24424)

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Abstract

In this article, I propose the concept of resonance as a useful one for describing what it means to experience relevance. Based on an extensive interdisciplinary review, I provide a novel framework that presents resonance as a spectrum of experience with a multitude of outcomes ranging from a sense of harmony and coherence to life transformation. I argue that resonance has different properties to the more traditional interpretation of relevance and provides a better system of explanation of what it means to experience relevance. I show how traditional approaches to relevance and resonance work in a complementary fashion and outline how resonance may present distinct new lines of research into relevance theory.

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