User studies and information practices: what we are talking about?

• Autor(a) principal: Berti, Ilemar Christina Lansoni Wey
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Carlos Alberto Ávila
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/31462
• topic: User Studies; Informational Practices; Social Theory; Estudios de Usuarios; Prácticas Informacionales; Teoría Social; Estudos de Usuários; Práticas Informacionais; Teoria Social

Introduction: This paper presents a brief discussion on differences between Information behavior and Information practices, concerning the field of Studies of information users. Objective: Reflect on the relationship of Information Practices with the field of Studies of information users and propose the analysis of questions that these topics cover, and how it is addressed with basis on Social theory. Methodology: Some points of history of field evolution and the influence of Social theory to comprehension of Information Practices are recovered, related to the knowledge generation and reciprocity of actions in its constitution. Results: It gives light to the importance of constructions of meanings to the comprehension of needs, search and use of information in distinct contexts. Conclusions: Information practices address the actions and meanings of informational subjects, a social perspective of information present in user studies.