The play's the thing: Theater professionals make sense of Shakespeare
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Library and Information Science Research, 2010, 32 (4), pp. 272 - 280
- Issue Date:
- 2010-10-01
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This study examines how theater professionals (actors, directors and others) make sense of the works of a culturally iconic author (William Shakespeare). The research aims to address critique of the information studies/science field's excessive focus on active information seeking and searching by developing an alternative approach, and to understand sense-making as more than the problem-solving behavior of individuals: to see it as an embodied, social process, involving emotion as well as rationality. In doing so it draws on theoretical approaches from a range of different disciplines and traditions, including Dervin's sense-making, Foucault's discourse analysis and Derrida's deconstructionism. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.
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