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The Impact of Information--I. Toward a Research Agenda for Its Definition and Measurement.
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Menou, Michel J. – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Describes an International Development Research Centre project that tested suitable approaches for assessing the benefits derived from information activities in developing countries. Reviews many research questions related to concepts of information and development, impact of information, and the methodological and practical constraints in its…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods, Information Utilization, Measurement
On Studying Information Seeking Methodologically: The Implications of Connecting Metatheory to Method.
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Dervin, Brenda – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Explores the implications of articulating the bridges that are built, usually implicitly, between metatheory and method, and between these and their ultimate interests, the doing of research; the purpose is to articulate the uses of methodology. Suggests that there is lacking a vocabulary for talking about methodology which attends to the…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Seeking, Information Theory, Information Utilization