The play's the thing: Theater professionals make sense of Shakespeare

Olsson, MR

The play's the thing: Theater professionals make sense of Shakespeare

Olsson, MR

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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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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Olsson, MR https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2814-0876	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-10-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Library and Information Science Research, 2010, 32 (4), pp. 272 - 280	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0740-8188	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/15106
dc.description.abstract	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.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Library and Information Science Research	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.lisr.2010.07.009	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Information & Library Sciences	en_US
dc.title	The play's the thing: Theater professionals make sense of Shakespeare	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	4	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	32	en_US
utslib.for	0807 Library and Information Studies	en_US
utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/IKM and Digital Studies Program
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	4	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	32	en_US

Abstract:

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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