What everybody knows: embodied information in serious leisure

What is it about?

The paper shows that the role of the human body in information activities has been largely neglected in information science, leading much research to overlook significant aspects of everyday information experience. Our subject has focussed on discovering information through texts, yet even reading is a sensory process.

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Why is it important?

Many aspects of the everyday experience of information can only be understood when we explore the role of the human body. We can only really understand how people find and use information if we acknowledge the role of the body as a basic source and channel for information gathering.

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