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Questions about the LIS Model/Theory Assignment?
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I have a theory and model in mind (Sense-making theory and the Shenton and Hay-Gibson model). Can I use both or just either one?
@elses1991 this is a good question. For the rest of your work in class absolutely use both theories especially if they help you understand your information community. For the LIS model and theory perhaps pick one to highlight and then mention the other in your discussion, etc., in that assignment perhaps think about how they both will work together to inform your view of the community’s information and needs.
@michael That’s what I was thought. As I was writing, I figured it was better for now to focus on one. Thank you!
You are welcome.
Hello! I see that there is not an asterisk on any of Dresang’s related articles: would the 2006 one that is listed first on the assignment page be a recommended one to cite (see citations below)? I’m having a hard time tracking down where her theory was originally published that was mentioned in the Module 4 Lecture:
Dresang (1999)
Explains info behaviors via digital age principles:
Interactivity
Connectivity
Access
Thanks!
Radical Change Theory (Dresang)
Dresang, E. (2006). Intellectual freedom and libraries: Complexity and change in the twenty‐first‐century digital environment. The Library Quarterly, 76(2), 169-192. doi: 10.1086/506576
Is this the original theory source?
Dresang, E. T., & McClelland, K. (1999). Radical change: Digital age literature and learning. Theory into Practice, 38(3), 160–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405849909543848
Thanks!
@elenaloper. Yes. Going forward I think this on is better for an overview of the theory and its use over the years:
https://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/2015/01/radical-change-theory-framework-for-empowering-digital-youth
I have updated our assignment page for this section to offer both. I will update that for all of the sections after this semester. Please use the one that you find the most interesting or useful
Thank you so much! Because Dresang is writing about youth, is it all right to apply this to adults?
I see here from the article you posted above, Dr. Koh, with Dresang, expand the theory beyond youth and literature:
“Theory Application and Expansion Research studies applying the theory posited that its applicability is not limited to literature for youth. These studies applied the theory to different types of information resources beyond books. Further, studies used the theory to observe human behavior in response to the information resources that reflect the concepts of connectivity, interactivity, and access” (Koh, 2015, pp. 5).
https://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Kyongwon-Koh_Radical-Change-Theory.pdf
@elenaloper That’s absolutely right. A good theory can be applied to many different groups!
@michael
I am using the theory of information poverty. In its list of articles on the assignment page, the article “Knowledge gap, information seeking and the poor” is marked as the one i must cite in my summary. However, having also read “The impoverished life-world of outsiders,” it seems like it is the article where Chapman really develops and lays out her theory of information poverty. I plan to cite both articles, but would it be a problem for “the impoverished life-world of outsiders” to be used as my main reference to the theory in my summary rather than “knowledge gap, information seeking, and the poor?”
@alexa no problem at all!