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With the advancement of information and communication technologies, contemporary information practices are characterized as unstable and highly flexible – in a constant state of “becoming.” By limiting the scope of information practice research to routinized and structurally bounded activities (i.e. standard information behaviour model), researchers are limiting themselves to an incomplete understanding of how diverse information practices occur in a dynamic process of stabilization and destabilization across space and time.

This project; (1) highlights the importance of studying the ways people deal with information rather than ‘information’ itself as a subject of study; (2) explores the inseparable link between micro-individual cognition and the macro-social shaping of contemporary practices; and lastly (3)​ ​presents cognitive base information behaviour methods that examine an individual’s role in information sense-making with a contemporary practice approach attentive to the lenses of time and space, in order to develop a coherent user research framework.

Publication.

Kimm, J. (Forthcoming). Becoming: Towards developing methodological grounding for studying contemporary information practices and digital artefacts. Information Research, 25(2).