Journal of Documentation: Volume 76 Issue 4

“Write the story you want to read”: world-queering through slash fanfiction creation

Diana Floegel

This pilot study explores how queer slash fanfiction writers reorient cis/heteronormative entertainment media (EM) content to create queer information worlds.

Toward a description framework of information encountering experiences: Guidance for diarists in story telling

Tingting Jiang, Shiting Fu, Enmei Song

One of the primary challenges of conducting information encountering (IE) research is the difficulty in capturing people's IE experiences. The purpose of this paper is to develop…

A structure–agency integrative framework for information access disparity : Rediscovery of practice in dividing society's information rich and poor

Liangzhi Yu, Wenbo Zhou, Junli Wang

This study aims to build an integrative framework for explaining society's information access disparity, which takes both structure and agency as well as their interactions into…

The role of information in the migration experience of young Polish women in the UK

Melanie Benson Marshall, Andrew Cox, Briony Birdi

Since Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004, migration from Poland to the UK has increased substantially. These migrants are generally young and highly educated, and…

Toward a new understanding of immigrant information behavior: A survey study on information access and information overload among US Black diasporic immigrants

Ana Ndumu

Immigration dominates much of the current US sociopolitical discourse. The research on US-based immigrant information behavior, however, remains scant. To understand the role of…

Information, data, and knowledge in the cognitive system of the observer

Boris Bosancic

In line with the cognitive viewpoint on the phenomenon of information, the constructivist tradition based on Maturana and Varela's theory of knowing, and some aspects of Shannon's…

The values of public libraries: a systematic review of empirical studies of stakeholder perceptions

Kristian Møhler Sørensen

Public libraries' relevance and raison d'être towards society is an often discussed subject within public, politics and research. The objective of this systematic literature…

Review of the Delphi method in library and information science research

Brady D. Lund

This article presents an introduction to the Delphi method and review of Delphi studies published in the literature of library and information science (LIS).