Abstract: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 of understanding. As such, understanding can provide an account for how bodily experience, recorded information, and other forms of information can contribute together epistemically. This paper provides a way for researchers to analyze understanding informationally: It defines information as form-and-activity and suggests that multiple pieces of information can be bundled together as information constellations with narrative as a cohering structure. The concept of information constellation is illustrated in a hermeneutic-phenomenological study of the information experience of ultrarunners. The resulting anecdotes and information constellation mappings show how multiple forms and activities of information are integrated as understanding even in the “simple” act of running. This discussion puts embodied, experiential, corporeal information on equal footing with the external, recorded forms of information that have been the traditional focus of information studies.

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超跑中的理解和信息星座

摘要：信息研究中有许多知识的概念化。尽管目前是完全不同的，但可以将它们以理解的概念放在一个共同的框架下。这样，理解可以说明身体经验，记录的信息和其他形式的信息如何在认识上共同做出贡献。本文为研究人员提供了一种分析信息理解的方法：将信息定义为形式和活动，并建议可以将多条信息捆绑在一起作为信息群，并将叙述作为连贯的结构。信息星座的概念在对超跑者信息体验的诠释-现象学研究中得到了说明。由此产生的轶事和信息星座图显示，即使在“简单”的跑步行为中，如何将多种形式和信息活动整合为理解。该讨论将体现的，体验性的，重要的信息与外部记录的信息形式放在一起，这些形式是信息研究的传统重点。