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Information creation and the notion of membership

Trace, Ciaran B. - In: Journal of Documentation 63 (2007) 1, pp. 142-164

Purpose – This article aims to examine a particular sub‐set of human information behavior that has been largely overlooked in the library and information science (LIS) literature; how people are socialized to create and use information. Design/methodology/approach – Naturalism and...

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Ambiguity and legitimate peripheral participation in the creation of scientific documents

Shankar, Kalpana - In: Journal of Documentation 65 (2009) 1, pp. 151-165

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a qualitative study of data management and recordkeeping in the research sciences and their roles in information creation and professional identity formation. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses ethnographic fieldwork data in an...

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Managing documents at home for serious leisure: a case study of the hobby of gourmet cooking

Hartel, Jenna - In: Journal of Documentation 66 (2010) 6, pp. 847-874

into three areas: scientific ethnography as a methodology; a theory of documents in the hobby; and the changing role of …

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A memo of qualitative research for information science: toward theory construction

Cibangu, Sylvain K. - In: Journal of Documentation 69 (2013) 2, pp. 194-213

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advocate for a clearer and less fragmentary use of qualitative research in the increasingly interdisciplinary research setting of information science. Design/methodology/approach – The paper performs a textual analysis of more than 500...

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Interpreting reference work with contemporary practice theory

Cavanagh, Mary F. - In: Journal of Documentation 69 (2013) 2, pp. 214-242

Purpose – In an increasingly competitive field of socially mediated information and knowledge available online, the public library's traditional services are increasingly questioned for relevancy. Drawing on the core premises of contemporary practice theory to ground the methodological and...

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Grounded theory and ethnography combined : A methodology to study children’s interactions on children’s mobile libraries

Bamkin, Marianne; Maynard, Sally; Goulding, Anne - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 2, pp. 214-231

of combining ethnography and grounded theory is explored and questioned. Findings – It is found that grounded theory and … ethnography were the optimum combination to form a powerful research tool that allows children to be active participants in … grounded theory and ethnography to be combined in order to study learning in a non-pedagogic, library environment. This paper …

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Third-party classification : Exposing likeness between satellites dishes, troll figurines and mass-produced bedspreads in a Romanian local museum

Klimaszewski, Cheryl - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 1, pp. 156-171

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to foreground the ways in which material objects emerged as a kind of classificatory force during a visit to a local museum in rural Romania. It considers ways in which classification both influences and is influenced by the spatio-temporal assemblages of...

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Getting-to-know : Inquiries, sources, methods, and the production of knowledge on a videogame wiki

Sköld, Olle - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 6, pp. 1299-1321

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sociocultural underpinnings of wiki-based knowledge production in the videogame domain, and to elucidate how these underpinnings relate to the formation of wikis as resources of videogame documentation. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

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Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple

Yerbury, Hilary; Olsson, Michael; Perera, Pethigamage - In: Journal of Documentation 80 (2023) 1, pp. 101-115

Purpose The outcomes of information behaviours have traditionally been conceptualised as use or effects. The adoption of a sociological stance, based on a practices approach, provides the opportunity to challenge these understandings. The non-Western setting further enhances the possibilities...

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Pilgrim's progress? A field ethnography of multimodal recording, curating and sharing of the Camino de Santiago experience

Innocenti, Perla - In: Journal of Documentation 80 (2023) 1, pp. 218-238

ethnography was conducted while walking with, observing and interviewing pilgrims along the Camino de Santiago, a popular European … ethnography and close-up observations of praxis, pilgrimage is analysed as a socio-technical process and discussed literature …

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