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It‘s ok. Some of the overviews were more interesting and insightful than others. Too many diagrams that did not add clarity to the texts (LIS research loves diagrams and abbreviations 🙄). Would have worked better if it covered fewer theories more in depth and organized the content conceptually rather than alphabetically.

“Domain analysis is thus an approach to information science that has important implications for studies of information behavior. Its strength is that it represents a more correct and fruitful theory about cognitive processes compared to traditional cognitive views. It may contribute to the development of information systems that are specific to different groups of users.”

“For those researchers who are interested in the reading behaviors of real readers, the choice among theories of reading has implications for the research questions asked and the research methodologies chosen. Reader-response criticism put an emphasis on what readers do when reading and shifted the emphasis from the self-contained text to the relationship between text and reader.”

“Overall, elicitation as an MLIS [micro-level information-seeking] behavior provides a promising approach for both practical and theoretical concerns of information behavior in patron-intermediary interaction. The MLIS framework facilitates various aspects of higher-level information seeking and as such can be applied to information seeker education on how to improve personal information behavior in asking effective questions.”

“Lastly, while the framework is based on a set of conceptual and epistemological constructs, it provides a structure for the analysis of human-information interaction, without subscribing to specific theories or models. Sanderson (2003) explained that ‘The scientific foundations of [cognitive work analysis] are various - a ‘conceptual marketplace‘ as Rasmussen described it - because they have been appropriated to fulfill a practical need.‘”

“Too often, the methodological premises - or primitives - lurking behind social scientific research methods are unstated, buried in long histories of intragenre discourse. Unstated, or not, however, the primitives operate to both constrain and enable possible research attentions.”