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Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology in Communist Romania: An Institutional and Biographical Overview

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2017
Suppressed on ideological grounds, banned as academic discipline, and dismantled as scientific infrastructure in the first postwar years, sociology was re-institutionalized in communist Romania during the 1960s, largely on political grounds. Subsequently,
Bosomitu Ștefan
doaj   +1 more source

Syringe sociology [PDF]

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, 2015
AbstractIn this article I consider the impact of social epistemologies for understanding the object of the syringe. My aim is to examine the process through which the syringe transforms from an injecting device to a tool of social and political inquiry.
openaire   +3 more sources

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

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology and Theatre, A Too Short Beginning. Pavel Câmpeanu’s Studies

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2019
In Romania, sociological investigations on theatre are mere illusions that drift further and further away into the sky. In the last 30 years, a few theatres commissioned surveys to measure, as best as they could, the structure and the preferences of ...
Runcan Miruna
doaj   +1 more source

But Is It Sociology?

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2016
This essay explores issues of trandisciplinarity through an autobiographical lens. Specifically, the essay attends to tensions between the discipline of sociology and interdisciplinary science, knowledge, and technology studies, with an emphasis on differing epistemic cultures in each.
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Individual and collective transitions: Changes in family information networks over time in life with chronic illness

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Clarifying the Association between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Suicidal Behavior

open access: yesThe Owl, 2012
Despite the high prevalence of suicide attempts amongst individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the relationship between OCD and suicidality is under researched and studies have reported contradictory results.
Amanda Moskowitz
doaj  

Book Review: Johann Michel, Quand le social vient au sens (Bruxelles: PIE Peter Lang, 2015)

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2015
A book review of Johann Michel, Quand le social vient au sens (Bruxelles: PIE Peter Lang, 2015).
Martin Aranguren
doaj   +1 more source

Toward information resilience: Applying intersectionality to the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Using intersectionality as a critical theoretical framework and analytical tool, this study investigated the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men (SMM). Twenty‐two Black SMM were interviewed about their HIV/AIDS‐related information practices.
Megan Threats
wiley   +1 more source

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