A re-examination of relevance: toward a dynamic, situational definition
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Toward a new horizon in information science: domain-analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
A social constructionist approach to the study of information use as discursive action
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
The production of ‘context’ in information seeking research: a metatheoretical view
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
The concept of relevance in IR
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Positioning theory and the negotiation of information needs in a clinical midwifery setting
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Using the information seeking and retrieval framework to analyse non-professional information use
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
Exploring mobile tablet training for road safety: A uses and gratifications perspective
Computers & Education
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An important question in Library and Information Science (LIS) is for what purpose information is sought; information seeking is not carried out for its own sake but to achieve an objective that lies beyond the practice of information seeking itself. Therefore, instrumentality could be seen as an overarching principle in the LIS field. Three different epistemological approaches to information needs and relevance, and the views on instrumentality that goes with them, are presented: the structure approach, the individual approach and the communication approach. The aim of the paper is to show how a communication oriented, neo-pragmatist epistemology enables research that in a dialogic manner highlights both the social contexts that information users are part of, and positions users as active contributors to the shaping of these contexts. The power relations that permeate these processes of negotiation between users and contexts are highlighted by introducing a Foucauldian perspective on power.