Document and Information Experience in Virtual Zenanas: An Exploration of a Diaspora Small World Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Document and Information Experience in Virtual Zenanas: An Exploration of a Diaspora Small World

Creator

  • Author: Kizhakkethil, Priya
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Miksa, Shawne D.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Zavalina, Oksana
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: O'Connor, Brian
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Burnett, Gary
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
    Additional Info: www.unt.edu

Date

  • Creation: 2020-12

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The word diaspora is currently understood as the large scale voluntary movement of people, along with capital and goods due to the mechanisms of globalization. Adopting a diaspora, gender and leisure perspective, this dissertation looked at the information and document experiences of a particular fan community of women belonging to the Indian diaspora and the online spaces created and occupied by them (fan fiction blogs which can be viewed as book clubs). The study also looked at memory making and documenting of the same as a part of document experience, resulting in what can be termed as "serendipitous memory archives." The blogs hosting fan fiction and the mediated practices they support were viewed as documents for the study. The online spaces were conceptualized as small worlds and the theoretical framework used for the study consisted of a preliminary model of a small world (based on literature review and my understanding of the world under study), information experience as a concept as well as document experience models. The results show that social ties play a big role in the information and document experience, while memory making and documenting of the same are also seen to happen as part of the document experience. The results also show that adopting a document perspective enables us to see the myriad ways in which information is experienced, freeing us from considering as information only that which helps us in meeting a purpose or which fills a gap. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
  • Physical Description: xi, 224 pages

Subject

  • Keyword: document experience
  • Keyword: information experience
  • Keyword: Information Science

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights Holder: Kizhakkethil, Priya
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: submission_2324
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1752398

Degree

  • Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy
  • Degree Level: Doctoral
  • Academic Department: Department of Information Science
  • College: College of Information
  • Degree Discipline: Information Science
  • Degree Publication Type: disse
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

Note

  • Embargo Note: The work will be published after approval.
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