RIS ID
16460
Abstract
This brief paper examines a metaphorical perspective for information science. Metaphorical understanding, like learning itself, is a fundamental component in the movement from the known to the unknown. Adopting this perspective has the potential to inform and further advance the study of characteristics ofinformation and.how it relates to emerging knowledge. This will be demonstrated by an examination ofthe metaphors used by theorists to describe how users approach information.
Publication Details
Meloche, J. A. & Crawford, K. (1998). A Metaphorical Study of Information Seeking using Q methodology. 14th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (pp. 109-127). Korea: Hanyang University.