Understanding and Information Constellations in Ultrarunning

Gorichanaz, Tim

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Title

Understanding and Information Constellations in Ultrarunning

Author(s)

Gorichanaz, Tim

Issue Date

2018

Keyword(s)

• Information science
• Information
• Embodied experience
• Knowledge
• Running

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.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Library Trends 66 (3). Winter 2018

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0006

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