Open AccessWhat porn says to information studies: The affective value of documents, and the body in information behavior
Author(s) -
Keilty Patrick,
Leazer Gregory
Publication year - 2014
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.2014.14505101067
Subject(s) - contradiction , pornography , value (mathematics) , negotiation , phenomenon , everyday life , psychology , information behavior , social psychology , cognition , affect (linguistics) , information seeking , element (criminal law) , process (computing) , internet privacy , epistemology , sociology , computer science , information retrieval , communication , human–computer interaction , political science , psychoanalysis , social science , philosophy , machine learning , neuroscience , law , operating system
In this paper we examine will examine how the everyday life of information seeking of pornography reveals two things. In contradiction of the general theory that says documents are sought for their cognitive value, the commonplace phenomenon of browsing pornography online demonstrates that documents are sought for their affective value. Furthermore, affective response reveals ways that the information seeker's own body is an important element in the negotiation of assessing and understanding documents during the seeking process. We also assess the degree to which these specific observations are true in more general settings.