Abstract
In this article, I propose the concept of resonance as a useful one for describing what it means to experience relevance. Based on an extensive interdisciplinary review, I provide a novel framework that presents resonance as a spectrum of experience with a multitude of outcomes ranging from a sense of harmony and coherence to life transformation. I argue that resonance has different properties to the more traditional interpretation of relevance and provides a better system of explanation of what it means to experience relevance. I show how traditional approaches to relevance and resonance work in a complementary fashion and outline how resonance may present distinct new lines of research into relevance theory.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 554-569 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology |
Volume | 72 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 23 Oct 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 23 Oct 2020 |
Keywords
- relevance
- resonance
- information use
- information assessment
- information retrieval
- information seeking behaviour