Karanasios, S and Zorina, A orcid.org/0000-0001-9133-1478 (2023) From participation roles to socio-emotional information roles: Insights from the closure of an online community. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74 (1). pp. 33-49. ISSN 2330-1635
Abstract
This study examines what happens when an online community (OC) platform is shut down. In particular, it builds on recent interest from information science on everyday life information seeking, providing insights into the socio-emotional roles enacted by users following community closure. A qualitative study is undertaken on 12 months of social media comments relating to the closure of an OC platform. We identify and discuss the socio-emotional information roles that manifest, and present a model of their relationship to different aspects of the closure. We make theoretical connections between the notion of socio-emotional information roles and both the information behavior and practice literature, as well as research on community and participant roles. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Association for Information Science and Technology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Logistics, Info, Ops and Networks (LION) (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2022 15:57 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 23:00 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/asi.24689 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187897 |