WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB

WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB

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Main Author: Brendon, Laura Katherine
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University / OhioLINK 2003
Subjects:
Information
Information Seeking
Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
World Wide Web
Women
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1043790196
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu10437901962021-08-03T05:47:51Z WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB Brendon, Laura Katherine Information Information Seeking Feminist Standpoint Epistemology World Wide Web Women <p>This qualitative study looks at how several women who consider themselves novices tried to learn and develop strategies for finding information on the Web. It draws on four literatures: feminist standpoint epistemologies, writings about women and computer technologies, writings about the concept of information, and studies of information-seeking behaviors. Adopting feminist standpoint epistemologies and simultaneously refusing to essentialize women, helps a researcher pose questions that focus on standpoints of the participants rather than the researcher. The study looks at how western society understands (or ignores) <i>information</i> as a concept.</p> <p>The methodology used was an instrumental case study. The findings clustered around several observations: how the participants and the researcher interacted with interface technologies, how information was conceptualized, and how concepts of time influenced Web searching. The findings challenge the way that researchers study how people search on the Web. Often research questions and design assume that information-seeking behaviors in the Web environment can be studied similarly to searching behaviors in structured databases. This study argues that the Web is a very different technology and recommends that alternative methodology, such as Brenda Dervin's Sense-Making metatheories, be used in future research. It calls for extending the standpoint studies.</p> 2003-02-12 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1043790196 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1043790196 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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topic Information
Information Seeking
Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
World Wide Web
Women
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Information Seeking
Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
World Wide Web
Women
Brendon, Laura Katherine
WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB
author Brendon, Laura Katherine
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title WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB
title_short WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB
title_full WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB
title_fullStr WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB
title_full_unstemmed WOMEN AS INFORMATION SEEKERS DURING INITIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB
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