Journal of Documentation: Volume 76 Issue 3

Response to “The public sphere without democracy: some recent work in LIS”

Michael Majewski Widdersheim, Masanori Koizumi

Shared information practices on Facebook: The formation and development of a sustainable online community

Ameera Mansour

This study aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the underlying dynamics of an emergent shared information practice within a Facebook group, and the resources the group…

The red thread of information

Jenna Hartel

In The Invisible Substrate of Information Science, a landmark article about the discipline of information science, Marcia J. Bates wrote that “…we are always looking for the red…

The information work of community archives: a systematic literature review

Alex H. Poole

This paper scrutinizes the scholarship on community archives' information work. Community archives and archiving projects represent unprecedentedly democratic venues for…

Foucault's toolbox: use of Foucault's writings in LIS journal literature, 1990–2016

Scott Hamilton Dewey

To provide a close, detailed analysis of the frequency, nature, and depth of visible use of Michel Foucault's works by library and information science/studies (LIS) scholars.

Uncomfortable in my own skin – emerging, early-stage identity-related information needs of transgender people

Aira Huttunen, Noora Hirvonen, Lotta Kähkönen

This study aims to increase the understanding of the early-stage identity-related information needs of transgender people.

Information encountering re-encountered: A conceptual re-examination of serendipity in the context of information acquisition

Sanda Erdelez, Stephann Makri

In order to understand the totality, diversity and richness of human information behavior, increasing research attention has been paid to examining serendipity in the context of…

A collection and its many relations and contexts: Constructing an object biography of the police historical/archival investigative files

Kathy Carbone

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of an ethnographic study that used object biography with an archival collection of police surveillance files, the Police…

The public sphere without democracy: some recent work in LIS

John Buschman

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and re-direct recent schematic and empirical scholarship on Habermas’ theory of the public sphere in library and information science (LIS).