Epistemic schools and issues in information science

TEACHING


CURRENT RESEARCH

computing skills
and expertise


digital libraries:
use and infrastructure


scholarly communities: information and
collaboration practices


OTHER RESEARCH

research methods

epistemic schools
and issues in information science


library discourses
and their historical formation

music libraries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLES

Tuominen, K., Talja, S, & Savolainen, R. (2005) The social constructionist viewpoint on information practices. In: Theories of information behavior: A researcher's guide . Ed. K. Fisher, S. Erdelez, L. McKechnie. Medford , NJ . Information Today. In press.

Talja, S., Tuominen, K. & Savolainen, R. "ISMS" in information science. Journal of Documentation,  61(1), 79-101. [ABSTRACT] [FULL TEXT]

Tuominen, K & Talja, S & Savolainen, R (2002). Discourse, cognition and reality: Towards a social constructionist metatheory for library and information science. - Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4), Seattle, WA , July 21-25. Toim. Raya Fidel, Harry Bruce, Peter Ingwersen & Pertti Vakkari. Greenwood Village, Co.: Libraries Unlimited, 271-283. [ABSTRACT]

Talja, S. & Keso, H. & Pietiläinen, T. (1999): The production of context in information seeking research: A metatheoretical view. Information Processing and Management 35, 751-763. [FULL TEXT PDF]

Talja, S (1997): Constituting "information" and "user" as research objects. A theory of knowledge formations as an alternative to the information man -theory. In: Vakkari, P., Savolainen, R. & Dervin, B. (eds.) Information Seeking in Context . London : Taylor Graham. 67-80. [FULL TEXT HTML]