Information systems and the stimulation of creativity
Journal of Information Science
Definitions and sciences of information
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Toward a new horizon in information science: domain-analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Information behaviour: an inter-disciplinary perspective
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Information needs: a person-in-situation approach
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Classifications of tasks, steps, and information-related behaviors of individuals on project terms
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Unconscious cognition: the elicitation of deeply embedded information needs
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
The nature of fiction and its significance for classification and indexing
Information Services and Use - Special issue: electronic access to fiction
Learning the Internet and the structure of information behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Structures and strategies of interdisciplinary science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Discourse: a new theoretical framework for examining information behaviour in its social context
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Where to from here? Results of an empirical study and user-centered implications for system design
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
The invisible substrate of information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of The American Society for Information Science: part 2: paradigms, models and methods of information science
Aligning studies of information seeking and use with domain analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of The American Society for Information Science: part 2: paradigms, models and methods of information science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
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)
Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of reading for pleasure
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Exploring models of information behaviour: the ‘uncertainty’ project
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Toward a reconceptualization of information seeking research: focus on the exchange of meaning
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
A longitudinal study of database-assisted problem solving
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Library and information science: practice, theory, and philosophical basis
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Framing social life in theory and research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Incorporating small parts and gap-bridging: two metaphorical approaches to information use
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
An interpretive and situated approach to an evaluation of Perseus digital libraries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems
Information Tasks: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems
Web searching for sexual information: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Introduction and overview: a sample of music information retrieval approaches
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Music information retrieval
Information failures in health care
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
The role of information in a community of hobbyist collectors
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Microcollaborations in a social Q&A community
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information design in/as serious leisure: the case of information databases to support online gaming
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
The information flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Embodiment and desire in browsing online pornography
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Confessional methods and everyday life information seeking
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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The article discusses lower and higher contexts for information phenomena, and argues that there is clearly a need for a more concerted research effort in the latter sphere. The discipline of information science has traditionally favored lower contexts—like everyday life and problem solving—that are neutral or even negative by nature. In contrast, the neglected higher things in life are pleasurable or profound phenomena, experiences, or activities that transcend the daily grind. A literature sample of the scarce information research related to higher things indicates that beyond the spotlight of mainstream research, information processes often seem different and there may be significant dimensions of information phenomena that have been overlooked. Therefore, the article outlines a contextual research area in information studies to address higher things from the perspective of information. It is concluded that optimal functioning requires bringing the lower and higher sides to balance in information science. This would offer a rare chance to promote holism and interdisciplinarity in the field, and to make the discipline more relevant to the human being. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.