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dc.contributor.author |
Yerbury, H
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1525-3268
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dc.contributor.author |
Olsson, M |
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dc.contributor.author |
Perera, P |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2023-09-04T10:03:57Z |
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dc.date.available |
2023-09-04T10:03:57Z |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Journal of Documentation, ahead-of-print, (ahead-of-print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0022-0418 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/171901
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dc.description.abstract |
<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>The outcomes of information behaviours have traditionally been conceptualised as use or effects. The adoption of a sociological stance, based on a practices approach, provides the opportunity to challenge these understandings. The non-Western setting further enhances the possibilities for conceptualising the outcomes of information practices as forms of capital.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>This ethnographic study uses a Bourdieusian approach to investigate the information practices of diasporic devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple in Sydney, Australia. The insider position of one researcher brought strong insights into the data, while the theoretical approach shared with the other researchers reinforced an outsider perspective.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>The Temple’s online sources and personal communication with other devotees provide a diverse range of sources that devotees use in information-based cultural practices and everyday life information practices. These practices lead to outcomes that can be identified as economic, social and cultural capital. Pin or merit emerges as an important outcome of practices which is not easily accommodated by the concept of outcome, nor by Bourdieu’s categories of capital.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>Adding to the small number of studies concerned with information practices in a spiritual context, this study shows the value of a Bourdieusian approach in identifying the outcomes of information practices as capital, but highlights the shortcomings of applying Western concepts in non-Western settings. It proposes the possibility of a new form of capital, which will need to be tested rigorously in studies in other spiritual settings.</jats:p></jats:sec> |
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dc.language |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Emerald |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Journal of Documentation |
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dc.relation.isbasedon |
10.1108/jd-01-2023-0008 |
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dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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dc.rights |
‘© Emerald Publishing Limited 0022-0418 DOI 10.1108/JD-01-2023-0008. This AAM is provided for your own personal use only. It may not be used for resale, reprinting, systematic distribution, emailing, or for any other commercial purpose without the permission of the publisher’ |
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dc.subject |
0806 Information Systems, 0807 Library and Information Studies |
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dc.subject.classification |
Information & Library Sciences |
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dc.subject.classification |
4302 Heritage, archive and museum studies |
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dc.subject.classification |
4609 Information systems |
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dc.subject.classification |
4610 Library and information studies |
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dc.title |
Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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utslib.citation.volume |
ahead-of-print |
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utslib.for |
0806 Information Systems |
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utslib.for |
0807 Library and Information Studies |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press |
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utslib.copyright.status |
open_access |
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dc.date.updated |
2023-09-04T10:03:56Z |
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pubs.issue |
ahead-of-print |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published online |
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pubs.volume |
ahead-of-print |
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utslib.citation.issue |
ahead-of-print |
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