Our intention will be to present a proposal for defining and concretising both the processes of experiencing information and the formation of information culture in interdisciplinary and methodological terms. The aim of our deliberations will be to point out the potential of a multifaceted and diverse understanding, investigation and conceptual construction of human information activities constituting the experience of information in the contemporary world. The panel will also attempt to present research methodologies, selected and most frequently undertaken ways of investigating these evolutionarily, biologically, psychologically and cognitively and socially determined activities constituting responses to information (including stimuli), always occurring in context. It will also be necessary to consider the concept and phenomenon of the human experience of information through the prism of generated information competences, which simultaneously affect the processes of experiencing and practising information.
On the basis of an analysis and critique of the literature on the subject, as well as a conceptual analysis, the key interdisciplinary subject and methodological conditions of experiencing information and information culture and the application of interdisciplinary research methods in this area of information science will be characterised. We will try to show that the analysed research field represents a great potential for exploring the specificity, the diversity of human information behaviour and information culture, as well as the context, including the experience of information in the virtual world, in social media as well as in everyday life.
Monika Krakowska & Sabina Cizek
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
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