Abstract
Nomadic pastoralists, due to their lifestyle and the dominance of oral culture, have not received much attention from information service providers and little is known about their information behavior. This qualitative ethnographic study entailed twenty semi‐structured interviews with Iranian Bakhtiari nomadic pastoralists using everyday life information seeking (ELIS) framework. Nomadic pastoralists' ELIS is dominated by reliance on human information sources including elders, chiefs (Khans) and family members. Most of their information needs relate to practical issues of daily life (e.g., animal husbandry, handicraft, and parenting) and therefore they prefer information sources that tap into their local and indigenous knowledge (e.g., elders) and value experience and skill over formal education when obtaining information from people. However, they purify their local knowledge through exposure to modern education. Relevance to daily life matters or practicality, previous successful utilization of information, and accessibility are among the factors they consider when choosing information sources.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology |
Publisher | Wiley Online Library |
Pages | 432-435 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Volume | 56 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 2373-9231 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 18 Oct 2019 |
Event | Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology: 82nd ASIS&T Annual Meeting - Crown Centre, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 19 Oct 2019 → 23 Oct 2019 Conference number: 82 https://www.asist.org/am19/ https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pra2.208 (Conference program) |
Conference
Conference | Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology |
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Abbreviated title | Information anyone, anywhere, any time, any way |
Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Melbourne |
Period | 19/10/19 → 23/10/19 |
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