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Changing Chance Encounters: Historians, Serendipity, and the Digital Text
Author(s) -
Kim Martin,
Anabel QuanHaase
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual conference of cais / actes du congrès annuel de l acsi
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-7589
DOI - 10.29173/cais862
Subject(s) - serendipity , limiting , suite , humanities , sociology , art , history , epistemology , philosophy , engineering , archaeology , mechanical engineering
Twenty academic historians in Southern Ontario were interviewed about their use of e-books and the role of serendipity in their research. Our findings show that serendipity continues to occur in physical environments, most often the stacks. By contrast, digital tools and texts is limiting historians’ opportunity for a chance encounter with information.  Vingt historiens universitaires du sud de l'Ontario ont ete interroges sur leur utilisation des livres electroniques et sur le role de la serendipite dans leurs recherches. Un theme central qui a fait surface suite a l'analyse selon la theorie ancree dans des donnees empiriques est que leur utilisation des outils et des textes numeriques limite leur possibilite d'une rencontre fortuite avec de l'information.

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