Files and links (1)
Published, Version of Record (VoR)Open Access (License Unspecified), Open
Journal article
Understanding and Information Constellations in Ultrarunning
Library trends, v 66(3), pp 329-350
01 Dec 2018
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
There have been many conceptualizations of knowledge in information studies. Though presently disparate, they can be brought together under a common framework with the concept of understanding. As such, understanding can provide an account for how bodily experience, recorded information, and other forms of information can contribute together epistemically. This paper provides a way for researchers to analyze understanding informationally: It defines information as form-and-activity and suggests that multiple pieces of information can be bundled together as information constellations with narrative as a cohering structure. The concept of information constellation is illustrated in a hermeneutic-phenomenological study of the information experience of ultrarunners. The resulting anecdotes and information constellation mappings show how multiple forms and activities of information are integrated as understanding even in the "simple" act of running. This discussion puts embodied, experiential, corporeal information on equal footing with the external, recorded forms of information that have been the traditional focus of information studies.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- Understanding and Information Constellations in Ultrarunning
- Creators
- Tim Gorichanaz - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Library trends, v 66(3), pp 329-350
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 22
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000434165700007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85046141837
- Other Identifier
- 991019167690504721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Web of Science research areas
- Information Science & Library Science