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Considering individual and community contexts within information pedagogy, scholarship, and practice
Author(s) -
Roeschley Ana,
Buchanan Sarah A.,
Burke Mary,
Graf Ann,
Zavalina Oksana L.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.283
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , scholarship , sociology , affect (linguistics) , interpretation (philosophy) , politics , session (web analytics) , feeling , action (physics) , public relations , information seeking , psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , library science , world wide web , computer science , political science , paleontology , physics , communication , quantum mechanics , law , biology , programming language
Context—“the complex web of social relations which [the individual] inhabits” (Spratt & Florian, Teaching and Teacher Education , 2015, 49 , 89–96, p. 90) touches everything, including individual and group circumstances, positionalities, feelings, experiences, and environments. Context shapes not only how we communicate information in the field and in the classroom, but also several significant processes: searching for information, accessing information, and the interpretation and use of information (Encheva, Journal of Library Administration , 2016, 56 , 595–602; Mitchell, Technical Services Quarterly , 2017, 34 , 283–296; Yeo et al., The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , 2015, 658 , 172–191). Furthermore, such contexts affect how information scientists teach and conduct their research and how information (in a classroom setting or otherwise) can be delivered to individuals and communities for action. How we, as information scholars and professionals, take individual and community contexts into account will affect our work. Issues of context will be thoroughly interrogated from a number of different perspectives by both the panelists and audience members in this interactive and participation‐based session.