Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple

IF 1.7 3区 管理学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Journal of Documentation Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI:10.1108/jd-01-2023-0008
H. Yerbury, M. Olsson, Pethigamage Perera
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PurposeThe outcomes of information behaviours have traditionally been conceptualised as use or effects. The adoption of a sociological stance, based on a practices approach, provides the opportunity to challenge these understandings. The non-Western setting further enhances the possibilities for conceptualising the outcomes of information practices as forms of capital.Design/methodology/approachThis ethnographic study uses a Bourdieusian approach to investigate the information practices of diasporic devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple in Sydney, Australia. The insider position of one researcher brought strong insights into the data, while the theoretical approach shared with the other researchers reinforced an outsider perspective.FindingsThe Temple’s online sources and personal communication with other devotees provide a diverse range of sources that devotees use in information-based cultural practices and everyday life information practices. These practices lead to outcomes that can be identified as economic, social and cultural capital. Pin or merit emerges as an important outcome of practices which is not easily accommodated by the concept of outcome, nor by Bourdieu’s categories of capital.Originality/valueAdding to the small number of studies concerned with information practices in a spiritual context, this study shows the value of a Bourdieusian approach in identifying the outcomes of information practices as capital, but highlights the shortcomings of applying Western concepts in non-Western settings. It proposes the possibility of a new form of capital, which will need to be tested rigorously in studies in other spiritual settings.
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资本作为信息实践的结果:对小乘佛教寺庙的信徒和僧侣的研究
目的信息行为的结果传统上被概念化为使用或效果。采用基于实践方法的社会学立场提供了挑战这些理解的机会。非西方环境进一步增强了将信息实践的结果概念化为资本形式的可能性。设计/方法论/方法这项民族志研究使用布迪厄方法来调查澳大利亚悉尼上座部佛教寺庙的流散信徒和僧侣的信息实践。一位研究人员的内部立场为数据带来了深刻的见解,而与其他研究人员共享的理论方法则强化了外部视角。发现寺庙的在线资源和与其他奉献者的个人交流为奉献者在基于信息的文化实践和日常生活信息实践中提供了各种各样的资源。这些做法产生的结果可以被视为经济、社会和文化资本。品或价值是实践的一个重要结果,结果的概念和布迪厄的资本类别都不容易适应。独创性/价值除了少数涉及精神背景下信息实践的研究外,本研究还表明了布迪厄方法在将信息实践的结果确定为资本方面的价值,但强调了在非西方环境中应用西方概念的缺点。它提出了一种新的资本形式的可能性,这需要在其他精神环境的研究中进行严格的测试。
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Journal of Documentation
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期刊介绍: The scope of the Journal of Documentation is broadly information sciences, encompassing all of the academic and professional disciplines which deal with recorded information. These include, but are certainly not limited to: ■Information science, librarianship and related disciplines ■Information and knowledge management ■Information and knowledge organisation ■Information seeking and retrieval, and human information behaviour ■Information and digital literacies
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