Information ↔ democracy: an examination of underlying assumptions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: information resources and democracy
A guide to metaphorical design
Communications of the ACM
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Utilization of heroin information by adolescent girls in Australia: a cognitive analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: youth issues in information science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Incorporating small parts and gap-bridging: two metaphorical approaches to information use
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Modeling citizenship information behavior and political action
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Confessional methods and everyday life information seeking
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Hi-index | 0.00 |
The conceptual issues of information use are discussed by reviewing the major ideas of sense-making methodology developed by Brenda Dervin. Sense-making methodology approaches the phenomena of information use by drawing on the metaphor of gap-bridging. The nature of this metaphor is explored by utilizing the ideas of metaphor analysis suggested by Lakoff and Johnson. First, the source domain of the metaphor is characterized by utilizing the graphical illustrations of sense-making metaphors. Second, the target domain of the metaphor is analyzed by scrutinizing Dervin's key writings on information seeking and use. The metaphor of gap-bridging does not suggest a substantive conception of information use; the metaphor gives methodological and heuristic guidance to posit contextual questions as to how people interpret information to make sense of it. Specifically, these questions focus on the ways in which cognitive, affective, and other elements useful for the sense-making process are constructed and shaped to bridge the gap. Ultimately, the key question of information use studies is how people design information in context. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.