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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1082012 |
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| author | Hedemark, Ase Hedman, Jenny Sundin, Olof |
| author_facet | Hedemark, Ase Hedman, Jenny Sundin, Olof Hedemark, Ase Hedman, Jenny Sundin, Olof |
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| contents | Speaking of Users: On User Discourses in the Field of Public Libraries Hedemark, Ase Hedman, Jenny Sundin, Olof Public Libraries Users (Information) Discourse Analysis Discourse Modes Classification Journal Articles Content Analysis General Education Instruction Information Technology Information Management Foreign Countries Introduction: The aim of the study reported is to examine user discourses identified in the Swedish public library field. The following questions are posed: What user discourses can be found and what characterises them? How are users categorised and what does this categorisation imply? The departure point in this paper is that the ways users are categorised may influence their information behaviour. Plausible consequences for the relation between the interest of the public library and the users are discussed. Method: The empirical focus of the paper is a discourse analysis with a starting-point in Ernesto Laclaus and Chantal Mouffe's discourse theory. Analysis: Sixty-two articles from three established Swedish library journals are analysed through a model in four phases. These phases include designations of users, user categories, themes within which users are described and user discourses. Results: Four user discourses are revealed: a general education discourse, a pedagogical discourse, an information technology discourse and an information management discourse. Conclusion: The discourses hold both levels of idealizing and experience-related rhetoric. The dominant general education discourse is based on a tradition of fostering and refining as well as educating the general public and thereby reproduces inequality between the user and the library. |
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| publishDate | 2005 |
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| spellingShingle | Speaking of Users: On User Discourses in the Field of Public Libraries Hedemark, Ase Hedman, Jenny Sundin, Olof Public Libraries Users (Information) Discourse Analysis Discourse Modes Classification Journal Articles Content Analysis General Education Instruction Information Technology Information Management Foreign Countries Speaking of Users: On User Discourses in the Field of Public Libraries Hedemark, Ase Hedman, Jenny Sundin, Olof Public Libraries Users (Information) Discourse Analysis Discourse Modes Classification Journal Articles Content Analysis General Education Instruction Information Technology Information Management Foreign Countries Introduction: The aim of the study reported is to examine user discourses identified in the Swedish public library field. The following questions are posed: What user discourses can be found and what characterises them? How are users categorised and what does this categorisation imply? The departure point in this paper is that the ways users are categorised may influence their information behaviour. Plausible consequences for the relation between the interest of the public library and the users are discussed. Method: The empirical focus of the paper is a discourse analysis with a starting-point in Ernesto Laclaus and Chantal Mouffe's discourse theory. Analysis: Sixty-two articles from three established Swedish library journals are analysed through a model in four phases. These phases include designations of users, user categories, themes within which users are described and user discourses. Results: Four user discourses are revealed: a general education discourse, a pedagogical discourse, an information technology discourse and an information management discourse. Conclusion: The discourses hold both levels of idealizing and experience-related rhetoric. The dominant general education discourse is based on a tradition of fostering and refining as well as educating the general public and thereby reproduces inequality between the user and the library. |
| title | Speaking of Users: On User Discourses in the Field of Public Libraries |
| topic | Public Libraries Users (Information) Discourse Analysis Discourse Modes Classification Journal Articles Content Analysis General Education Instruction Information Technology Information Management Foreign Countries |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1082012 |