Death of the user: Reconceptualizing subjects, objects, and their relations.
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| Title: | Death of the user: Reconceptualizing subjects, objects, and their relations. |
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| Authors: | Day, Ronald E.1 roday@indiana.edu |
| Source: | Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Jan2011, Vol. 62 Issue 1, p78-88. 11p. |
| Subjects: | Information science libraries, Library science, Information science, Information technology, Causal models, Causation (Philosophy), Psychoanalysts, Information literacy, British Americans, Philosophers |
| Abstract: | The article explains why the concept of the user in Library and Information Science (LIS) user studies and information seeking behavior is theoretically inadequate and it proposes a reconceptualization of subjects, objects, and their relations according to a model of 'double mediation.' Formal causation (affordances) is suggested as a substitute for mechanistic causation. The notion of 'affective causation' is introduced. The works of several psychoanalysts and continental and Anglo-American philosophers are used as tools to develop the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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