Making meaning : a focus for information interactions research

Ruthven, Ian; (2019) Making meaning : a focus for information interactions research. In: CHIIR '19 Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. ACM, GBR, pp. 163-171. ISBN 9781450360258 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298938)

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Abstract

In this perspectives paper, I discuss meaning-making as an information seeking and interaction enterprise. I present meaning-making as a vital human reaction to significant life changes and present indicative evidence of how people go about gathering information for making meaning within their lives. I discuss some of the various forms of information that can be used for meaning-making, why it is an information seeking task that is different to those we are used to in information seeking research, and motivate meaning-making as a new focus for information seeking and information interactions research.

  • Item type:Book Section
    ID code:66828
    Dates:
    Date
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    11 March 2019
    Published
    11 January 2019
    Accepted
    Notes:© Author | ACM 2019. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in CHIIR '19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298938.
    Subjects:Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:05 Feb 2019 13:16
    Last modified:08 Apr 2024 13:57
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66828
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