Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science

By Birger Hjørland. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2002

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Science Mapping: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2017, background): “The other is a study of major approaches to domain analysis (Hjørland, 2002).”
"Isms" in information science: constructivism, collectivism and constructionism (2005, background): “Therefore IS has an intimate relationship with problems related to vocabularies, discourse and language (Buckland, 1999; Hjørland, 2002a, p. 441).”
Relevance: A review of the literature and a framework for thinking on the notion in information science. Part II: nature and manifestations of relevance (2007, background): “In the ﬁrst, Hjørland (2002) suggests an epistemological perspective for considering relevance and other fundamental concepts at play in IR, such as interpretation of texts and information needs.”
Interpreting informational cues: An explorative study on information use among prospective homebuyers (2009, unknown): “These concepts also point to the highly interactive, network-distributed ways that people gain HIV/AIDS information, thus responding to calls for greater development of social approaches to information behavior research (Hjørland, 2002; Tuominen, Talja, & Savolainen, 2002; Vakkari, 1997).”