[Siguse-l] Call for papers: LQ special issue

[Sanna Talja]

Hi!

Here's a Call for papers of interest to SIG-USE members. Apologies for
cross-postings.

Best regards,

Sanna

Library Quarterly Special issue on Discursive Approaches to Information
Seeking in Context

Information seeking, like other human activities, arises not only out of
behavior, but also out of the meanings and values that people attach to
their practices and to the methods, means, and technologies available for
locating information.  In recent years, LIS researchers have begun to
explore information practices by focusing on how people give accounts of
their information behavior or construct the meanings of  technical
artefacts in work and everyday life. The issue of how information practice
related topics, actors, and technologies are constructed in discourse and
conversation is important for understanding information seeking and
technology use from a broader sociological perspective. This special issue
invites papers that apply constructionist, discourse, or conversation
analytic methods and theories to information seeking in context
research. In particular, we invite papers that explore information
practices in interactional and collaborative settings, be they
face-to-face or textual encounters.

Papers should be prepared in accordance with the Library Quarterly
Instructions to Authors
(http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/LQ/instruct.html) and submitted to Pam
McKenzie, (Faculty of Information and Media Studies, North Campus
Building, Room 240, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 5B7,
email pmckenzi at uwo.ca) or Sanna Talja (Department of Information Studies
FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland  mail sanna.talja at uta.fi) no
later than Jan. 1, 2006.

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Sanna Talja, PhD
Senior assistant professor
Department of Information Studies
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
email sanna.talja at uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~lisaka
gsm. +358 (0)40 595 8919
office +358 (0)3 215 8062
fax +358 (0)3 215 6560
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