COLIS 2013 IL Panel

A focus on experience allows a broad understanding and interpretation of people’s engagement and interaction with the information environment. A focus on experience takes into account the interrelations between people and their broader environments in a manner which considers people and their world as inseparable. It also provides deep insights into the ways in which people relate to their informational life-worlds. Information experience an emerging research domain… Bruce, C & Partridge, H. (2011) Identifying and delineating information experience as a research domain: a discussion paper. In Social Media and Information Practices Workshop, 10-11 November, Boras, Sweden http://eprints.qut.edu.au/47204

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A focus on experience allows a broad understanding and interpretation of

people’s engagement and interaction with the information environment.

A focus on experience takes into account the interrelations between

people and their broader environments in a manner which considers

people and their world as inseparable. It also provides deep insights into

the ways in which people relate to their informational life-worlds.

Information experience an emerging research domain…

Bruce, C & Partridge, H. (2011) Identifying and delineating information experience as a research domain: a discussion paper. In Social Media and Information Practices Workshop, 10-11 November, Boras, Sweden http://eprints.qut.edu.au/47204

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/47204

Theoretical foundations

& history

the lived experience of

informational life worlds

• Phenomenology

• Hermeneutics

Life in Frame by @ericcoming8.com

A few recent examples of IL research conducted in the Information

Experience research domain:

• Health information literacy, phenomenography, relational perspective to IL

(Christine Yates)

• Health information literacy, grounded theory, socio-cultural perspective to IL

(Julie Lee)

• Early career academics IL in developmental networks, grounded

theory, relational perspective to IL (Faye Miller)

But……information experience as an object of study?

• Information experiences of people in social media during natural

disaster, informed by ethnography (Helen Partridge & Christine Yates)

• Information experiences of new mothers in social media, grounded theory (Kate

Davis)

Operationalised in empirical research?

…. more nuanced understanding of what is information, what people

experience as informing.

… richer understanding of the relations between people and the environment

in which their engagement with information takes place.

More work is needed though to further articulate, delineate and explore

information experience as a research domain and as a research object.

Offerings to the future of IL research

Bruce, C, Partridge, H., Hughes, H. & Davis, K. (in press) Information experience: approaches to theory and practice. Emerald. Due for publication 2014