This study investigates student responses to allegations of cheating using ChatGPT, a popular software platform capable generating coherent text on various topics. Data comprising 49 Reddit posts and discussions between December 2022 June 2023 were collected. Students shared their experiences, often asserting false accusations, discussed strategies navigate these situations. Thematic analysis identified five key themes: adopting legalistic stance with argumentation evidence; higher...

When I began learning research methods in my first year as a doctoral student, took disconnected series of classes shaped by each particular professor’s favored techniques, with hodgepodge of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance document ontology and epistemology by proposing a framework for analysing documents from multiple perspectives research practice. Design/methodology/approach Understanding positioned as an epistemic aim documents, which can be approached through phenomenology. Findings A phenomenological analysis articulated. Key concepts in are include intrinsic information, extrinsic abtrinsic adtrinsic information. Information meaning distinguished. Finally,...

This paper presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis study of students’ experiences with ungrading in the form reflection-based self-evaluation a college course. In landscape student evaluation, strategies respond to limitations traditional grading systems, particularly respect cultivating in-demand skills and capacities, such as adaptability, creative thinking, self-management. Through in-depth interviews eight students, this reports on four experiential themes that characterize...

This paper contributes to the conceptualization of information creation in field behavior. To do so, it synthesizes discussions and conceptual models on related topics, such as communication, design documentation, which date have been disconnected. A number are discussed, well some strengths, weaknesses unique contributions each with respect creation. discussion leads a paths for further research, both empirical, In particular, one fruitful site research is art. Drawing ground-breaking work...

Inspired by the conference theme, Leaps and Stumbles, our panel takes a quantum leap beyond conventional notions of information. We provide systematic consideration information phenomena during altered states consciousness generated ingestion “magic mushrooms.” Our exploration is anchored in book, Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism Age Reason (Kent, 2010) situated within behaviour literature. The session will be for its explicit balanced treatment “psychedelic information” on four...

Information behavior in activities that are freely chosen has been little explored. This article conceptualizes personally meaningful as a site for information research. Personal meaning is discussed necessity human beings. In the age, there an ethical directive developers of technology to promote and afford activities. builds on discussions pleasurable profound science conceptually empirically. First, it argues phenomenology these discussions, which heretofore mostly absent. Next, presents...

Purpose Americans increasingly feel a sense of wonder at the universe; meditation and yoga are on rise; field known as Contemplative Studies has emerged. These indicators, among others, suggest groundswell interest in contemplative practice experience raise intriguing questions for information Information Studies. Against this backdrop, paper asks: How might contribute to these developments? What is relationship between contemplation? can be explored research frontier?...

Now that information proliferates, science should turn its attention towards higher order epistemic aims, such as understanding. Before systems to support the building of understanding can be designed, process must explored. This article discusses findings from an interpretative phenomenological analysis study on experience participants in a 100-mile footrace which reveal how these have built their athletic pursuits. Three ways ultrarunners build – by taking time, undergoing struggle and...

Abstract Research on how people look for and interact with information has a long history in the field. The current literature been repeatedly reviewed earlier volumes of Annual Review Information Science Technology . In this review, we offer an overview research published area years 2016–2022 focus trends that have emerged period. We use term “information behavior” as umbrella interested become informed engage diverse manners acknowledging different researchers subfields prefer other terms...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to first articulate and then illustrate a descriptive theoretical model documentation (i.e. document creation) suitable for analysis the experiential, first-person perspective. Design/methodology/approach Three models in literature are presented synthesized into new model. This used understand findings from phenomenology-of-practice study work seven visual artists as they each created self-portrait, understood here form documentation. Findings A number...

Purpose Scholars in information science have recently become interested “information experience,” but it remains largely unclear why this research is important and how fits within the broader disciplinary structure of science. The purpose paper to clarify issue. Design/methodology/approach discussion unfolds form a philosophical dialogue between Epistemologist, who represents traditional majority epistemological viewpoint science, Aestheticist, representing emerging paradigm experiential...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to invite further consideration and research into the authoritativeness, reliability trustworthiness documents. How do documents come be trusted? Why are some more trusted than others? Design/methodology/approach cases Oxford English Dictionary Wikipedia policies explored from a historical perspective, other considered. Findings Authoritativeness seems inherent because cognitive metaphor that says “what persistent trustworthy”. Practical implications...

This study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis, a qualitative interview methodology, to examine the information experience of Catholic readers Bible. It presents detailed, individual-focused account how Catholics Bible, in its diverse oral, print, and digital manifestations, as source religious information. Participants this were found Bible God's Word, with which they interface three thematic ways: Connections, Journey, Practice. These themes are, turn, linked by processes...

Abstract Virtue epistemology offers a yet‐untapped path for ethical development in information science. This paper presents two empirical studies on intellectual humility (IH), cornerstone virtue. Centrally, IH is matter of being open to the possibility that one may be misinformed or uninformed; it involves accurately valuing one's beliefs according evidence. The presented this explore relationship between and people's seeking use. First, correlational questionnaire study was conducted with...

It is well-recognized that online experience can carry profound impacts on health and well-being, particularly for young people. Research has already documented influences from cyberbullying, heightened feelings of inadequacy, the relative decline face-to-face interactions active lifestyles. Less attention been given to aesthetic experiences users, gamers other users immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies. However, a significant body research begun document surprisingly strong yet...

Typically, arts information professionals are concerned with the documentation of artwork. As a provocation, this conceptual article explores how art-making itself can be considered form and finished artworks as documents in their own right. In view, art works evidence referencing something else, within broader system, under scrutiny it exposes references. Some implications perspective discussed, springing from historical discussion document epistemology, research on behavior artists,...

To better account for information behavior in everyday life, the field must more fully explore phenomena lifeworld, that is, experience. This article shows one way to do this is through concept of understanding. Visual art identified as an illuminating domain initial foray into such research. presents findings from a phenomenology‐of‐practice study visual artists. Seven local artists documented their experiences creating self‐portraits, and semistructured follow‐up interviews were conducted....

There have been many conceptualizations of knowledge in information studies. Though presently disparate, they can be brought together under a common framework with the concept understanding. As such, understanding provide an account for how bodily experience, recorded information, and other forms contribute epistemically. This paper provides way researchers to analyze informationally: It defines as form-and-activity suggests that multiple pieces bundled constellations narrative cohering...