All the world's a stage - The information practices and sense-making of theatre professionals

Olsson, MR

All the world's a stage - The information practices and sense-making of theatre professionals

Olsson, MR

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Libri, 2010, 60 (3), pp. 241 - 252
Issue Date:: 2010-09-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Olsson, MR https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2814-0876	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-09-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Libri, 2010, 60 (3), pp. 241 - 252	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0024-2667	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17548
dc.description.abstract	This paper reports on the findings of a study examining how theatre professionals (actors, directors and others) make sense of the works of a culturally iconic author (William Shakespeare). The study aims to address critique of prevailing approaches' excessive focus on active information seeking and searching (Julien, Where to from here? Results of an empirical study and user-centred implications for information design, Taylor Graham, 1999; Wilson, Informing Science 3: 4955, 2000) by developing a more holistic approach, one which acknowledges the complexity of sense-making as more than the problem-solving behaviour of individuals - 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. The findings of the study are based on interviews with 35 theatre professionals in Canada, Finland and the UK. © 2010 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Libri	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1515/libr.2010.021	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Information & Library Sciences	en_US
dc.title	All the world's a stage - The information practices and sense-making of theatre professionals	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	60	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	3	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	60	en_US

Abstract:

This paper reports on the findings of a study examining how theatre professionals (actors, directors and others) make sense of the works of a culturally iconic author (William Shakespeare). The study aims to address critique of prevailing approaches' excessive focus on active information seeking and searching (Julien, Where to from here? Results of an empirical study and user-centred implications for information design, Taylor Graham, 1999; Wilson, Informing Science 3: 4955, 2000) by developing a more holistic approach, one which acknowledges the complexity of sense-making as more than the problem-solving behaviour of individuals - 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. The findings of the study are based on interviews with 35 theatre professionals in Canada, Finland and the UK. © 2010 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York.

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