Information Experience: Approaches to Theory and Practice (Library and Information Science)

Hardcover, xxiii+338 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "The German word for experience - Erlebnis - the experience of the life, to live through something - underpins this book: making visible scholarly opportunities for richer and deeper contextualizations and examinations of the lived-world experiences of people in everyday contexts as they be, do and become." (Ross Todd, Preface). Information experience is a burgeoning area of research and still unfolding as an explicit research and practice theme. This book is therefore very timely as it distils the reflections of researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, with interests ranging across information, knowledge, user experience, design and education. They cast a fresh analytical eye on information experience, whilst approaching the idea from diverse perspectives. Information Experience brings together current thinking about the idea of information experience to help form discourse around it and establish a conceptual foundation for taking the idea forward. It therefore "provides a number of theoretical lenses for examining people's information worlds in more holistic and dynamic ways." (Todd, Preface)." -- Contents: I: Overview 1. Information Experience: Contemporary Perspectives [Information Experience: An Emerging Concept & Research Domain & Research Object & Significance to Theory and Practice & Towards a Collective Awareness]; II: Theorising Information Experience 2. Researching Information Experience: Object and Domain [Introduction; Research Projects; Understanding Information Experience; Conclusion] 3. Researching Information Experience: Methodological Snapshots [Introduction; Author's Perspective on Information Experience & Informed Learning; Six Research Snapshots: Varied Approaches to Information Experience Research; Reviewing the Featured Research Approaches; Conclusion] 4. A Reflection on the Relationship between the Study of People's Information Behaviour and Information Literacy: Changes in Epistemology and Focus; III: Experiencing Information 5. Creating and Expressing: Information-As-It-Is-Experienced [Author's Perspective on Information Experience; Introduction; Methodology; Discussion; Conclusion] 6. Informed Bodies: Does the Corporeal Experience Matter to Information Literacy Practice? [Introduction; Author's Perspective on Information Experience; Information Literacy & Learning: A Brief Sociocultural View; Site of the Body in Theory; Corporeal Experience of Information; Emergency Services Studies; Corporeal Experience of Renal Care Nurses; Discussion; Concluding Thoughts and Questions] 7. Information Experiences of Teen Content Creators; IV: Community Information Experience 8. Exploring Information Literacy during a Natural Disaster: The 2011 Brisbane Flood 9. Information Experiences: A Native American's Perspective 10. Experiential Brutality in Sense Making: Researching Dynamic Sense Making Processes in Online Discussions about Kidney Failure 11. Diversifying Information Literacy Research: An Informed Learning Perspective; V: Organisational and Professional Information Experience 12. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The High Cost to Business of Poor Information Experiences 13. Information Experiences in the Workplace: Foundations for an Informed Systems Approach 14. Information Experiences of Female Legislators: Examining Constituency Activities and Representation in the Ugandan Parliament 15. Expert Searcher's Experience of Information; VI: Learners' Information Experience 16. Experiences of Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom 17. Emotional Valence of Information Experience: Relation to Personality and Approach to Studying 18. Information Experience in the Context of Information Seeking Methods by Prospective Students; VII: Afterword 19. Information Experience: New Perspectives & Research Directions; Index.…