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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
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Structural Cohesion: Visualization and Heuristics for Fast Computation [PDF]

Journal of Social Structure, 2015
Jordi Torrents, Fabrizio Ferraro
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Individual and collective transitions: Changes in family information networks over time in life with chronic illness

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic illness represents a transition for both patients and their family members although transitions and information behavior changes have largely been explored from an individual perspective. Illness‐related transitions may be undertaken individually or collectively, but little is known about how family information networks change in the ...
Lindsay K. Brown, Tiffany C. Veinot
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A teoria das relações sociais de sexo: um quadro de análise sobre a dominação masculina The theory of social relationship between sexes: a panel about men domination

Sociedade e Estado, 2005
Este artigo expõe o sistema conceitual elaborado na França, em torno do conceito de relação social de sexo. Mostra as ligações teóricas entre, de um lado, as modalidades de ação ou as atividades dessa relação social, isto é, a divisão sexual do trabalho,
Anne-Marie Devreux
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SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY IN GEOGRAPHY: PHASE OF EMPIRICAL-ANALYTICAL SCIENCE

, 2021
Goran Mutabdžija
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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Recent Developments in Sociological Risk Theory

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2006
This article gives a brief overview of the main streams and recent developments of sociological research and theorising on risk. It outlines shifts in cultural theory on risk, from risk society to reflexive modernisation, from governmentality on risk to ...
Jens O. Zinn
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The issues caused by misinformation—How workers and organizations deal with it: A systematic literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract In today's digital age, misinformation propagates rapidly through digital channels, blurring the lines between truth and fiction, and challenging the foundations of trust in information sources. Although affecting all spheres of life, misinformation poses a significant threat to workers highlighting a critical intersection between ...
Ashwani Malhotra, Nina Evans, Jing Gao, Jia Tina Du, Connie Zheng   +4 more
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Semantic primitives and compositionality: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
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Brief guidelines for teaching sociological theory today

Sociologias
The article discusses the relevance of teaching sociological theory and presents in a synthetic mode a set of guidelines for a program of study. The main argument is that the study of sociological theory should consider both classical and contemporary ...
Elida Rubini Liedke, Eurídice Baumgarten   +1 more
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