Making meaning: a focus for information interactions research

Ian Ruthven

doi:10.1145/3295750.3298938

Making meaning: a focus for information interactions research

Ian Ruthven

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Abstract

In this perspectives paper, I discuss meaning-making as an information seeking and interaction enterprise. I present meaning-making as a vital human reaction to significant life changes and present indicative evidence of how people go about gathering information for making meaning within their lives. I discuss some of the various forms of information that can be used for meaning-making, why it is an information seeking task that is different to those we are used to in information seeking research, and motivate meaning-making as a new focus for information seeking and information interactions research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHIIR '19 Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Pages	163-171
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298938
Publication status	Published - 11 Mar 2019
Event	ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval 2019 - The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Mar 2019 → 14 Mar 2019

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Conference	ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval 2019
Abbreviated title	CHIIR 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	10/03/19 → 14/03/19

Keywords

information seeking
information use
meaning-making

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