Purpose

In this paper, we introduce feminist technoscience as an approach that will advance theory in information behavior and practice.

Design/methodology/approach

In this conceptual paper, we identify four common assumptions in information behavior and information practice research that limit theory development to date. Existing models and theories tend to rely on extractive logic, focus on a person-in-situation, depend on binary definitions and assume that information interaction changes people's lives for the better. This leads to extractive ways of discussing information interactions and limits our ability to fully theorize embodiment and affect in our discipline.

Findings

Feminist technoscience offers distinct ways of thinking about people, technology, bodies and power; in doing so, it responds to some perennial limitations in our research to date.

Originality/value

Feminist technoscience is a robust research paradigm that has not yet been fully applied in our discipline. Assumptions in information behavior and information practice research have led to models and theories that reflect a logic of extraction and are limited in their potential for characterizing both embodiment and affect. Feminist technoscience provides a way to conduct research that challenges these assumptions and addresses these limitations.

中文翻译：

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女权主义技术科学在推进信息实践研究方面的潜力

目的

在本文中，我们将女性主义技术科学作为一种方法来推进信息行为和实践中的理论。

设计/方法/方法

在这篇概念性论文中，我们确定了信息行为和信息实践研究中限制迄今为止理论发展的四个常见假设。现有的模型和理论倾向于依赖提取逻辑，关注一个人的情况，依赖于二元定义，并假设信息交互使人们的生活变得更好。这导致了讨论信息交互的提取方式，并限制了我们将我们学科中的体现和影响完全理论化的能力。

发现

女性主义技术科学提供了思考人、技术、身体和权力的独特方式；这样做，它回应了我们迄今为止研究中的一些长期限制。

原创性/价值

女性主义技术科学是一种强大的研究范式，尚未完全应用于我们的学科。信息行为和信息实践研究中的假设导致了反映提取逻辑的模型和理论，并且在表征体现和情感的潜力方面受到限制。女权主义技术科学提供了一种挑战这些假设并解决这些局限性的研究方法。