Open AccessInformation seeking behavior in epistemological light
Author(s) -
Cornelius Ian,
Hansson Joacim,
Hjørland Birger,
Sundin Olof
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504201147
Subject(s) - epistemology , information seeking , context (archaeology) , interpretation (philosophy) , constructive , sociology , idealization , hermeneutics , value (mathematics) , construct (python library) , politics , social psychology , psychology , computer science , political science , process (computing) , paleontology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , library science , law , biology , programming language , operating system
He explores the background conditions that make information seeking possible. The idea ofinformation seeking assumes the social conditions that admit the collective concepts that giveeffect to the activity of seeking. These include the idealization of the discourse within which thedialogue of seeking must take place. The assumption of stable background conditions also