Information: Objective or subjective-situational?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
A structuration approach to online communities of practice: The case of Q&A communities
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information as discursive construct
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
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Mixed methods research (MMR) has been described as the third research paradigm that combines qualitative and quantitative research methods. The mixing of research methods requires an epistemological framework that embraces the “reality” uncovered by different research methods. Three formal ontological categories are introduced for deconstructing the polarized view of reality in objectivism and relativism and for differentiating the nature and characteristics of objective, subjective, and normative validity claims as well as the conditions for justifying “objectivity” in social research. The characterization of “information” as objective, subjective, and normative-evaluative simultaneously demands the study of conditions of information-related phenomena that may call for mixed methods research in library and information science. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.