TY - JOUR
KW - theories
KW - knowledge organisation
KW - information work
KW - information use
KW - ecological approach
KW - KO
KW - KOS
KW - affordances
KW - constraints
KW - warrants
AU - Isto Huvila
AB - There has been notably little convergence between information organization and information use studies. A framework for explicating the contextual interplay of information interactions and infrastructures of information, and more specifically the interface of information work and knowledge organization systems, is proposed. The theoretical foundations of the framework are based on systems theory and ecological approach. It is suggested that the interplay of information use and information infrastructures may be conceptualized as a systemic interaction, which is driven by the simultaneous influence of human activity related warrants and infrastructural affordances and constraints. The model provides an instrument that explicates the interplay of human information use and information infrastructures.

BT - Journal of Information Science
DO - 10.1177/0165551509336705
M1 - 4
N2 - There has been notably little convergence between information organization and information use studies. A framework for explicating the contextual interplay of information interactions and infrastructures of information, and more specifically the interface of information work and knowledge organization systems, is proposed. The theoretical foundations of the framework are based on systems theory and ecological approach. It is suggested that the interplay of information use and information infrastructures may be conceptualized as a systemic interaction, which is driven by the simultaneous influence of human activity related warrants and infrastructural affordances and constraints. The model provides an instrument that explicates the interplay of human information use and information infrastructures.

PY - 2009
SP - 695
EP - 708
T2 - Journal of Information Science
TI - Ecological framework of information interactions and information infrastructures
UR - http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0165551509336705v1
VL - 35
SN - 0165-5515
ER -