On the two conceptualizations of information experience as an object of study: a response to Yu and Liu
ISSN: 0022-0418
Article publication date: 6 September 2022
Issue publication date: 4 April 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to further the scholarly discussion of information experience as an object of study, including how this research area fits into library and information studies more broadly.
Design/methodology/approach
A conceptual discussion of certain issues raised in Yu and Liu's recent paper in this journal.
Findings
While Yu and Liu seem to suggest that only a priori information experience research belong in library and information science (LIS), this paper suggests that a priori and a posteriori research have a synergistic relationship and both have a home in LIS.
Originality/value
This paper clarifies how the two conceptualizations of information experience as an object of study relate to each other, as well as how these relate to information experience as a research approach, and how all this fits within the metadisciplinary field of LIS.
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Acknowledgements
The author is grateful to the anonymous reviewers of this manuscript, who helped point out some of his misunderstandings of Yu and Liu's arguments and suggested other places where it could be helpfully improved.
Citation
Gorichanaz, T. (2023), "On the two conceptualizations of information experience as an object of study: a response to Yu and Liu", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 79 No. 3, pp. 635-640. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2022-0141
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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