TY - JOUR
T1 - Storytelling wisdom
T2 - Story, information, and DIKW
AU - McDowell, Kate
N1 - Funding Information:
Many thanks are due to early readers Betsy Hearne, Kyunwon Koh, Michael Twidale, and Ben Grosser. Thanks to Lori Kendall for citation advice. Finally, I offer hearty thanks to the reviewers and editors whose feedback was both informative and transformative, as in the best traditions of storytelling. [Corrections added on 23 Mar 2021, after first online publication: Ben Grosser's name has been included in “Acknowledgments” section]
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 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.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Most information science (IS) definitions of information center individual rather than collective meaning-making. Because stories are constituted through narrative experience, and audiences are partly constitutive of the stories told to and with them, storytelling offers a framework for researching collective experiences of information. Stories are simultaneously empirical and socially constructed, bridging a key epistemological divide in IS. Storytelling as paradigm shift is explored and demonstrated in three sections that (a) define story and storytelling, (b) describe how story and storytelling can extend the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW) pyramid, and (c) revise DIKW as a new storytelling S-DIKW framework. Future IS storytelling research should account for story and the dynamics of storytelling not merely as a subset of information or of information behavior, but as a fundamental information form.
AB - Most information science (IS) definitions of information center individual rather than collective meaning-making. Because stories are constituted through narrative experience, and audiences are partly constitutive of the stories told to and with them, storytelling offers a framework for researching collective experiences of information. Stories are simultaneously empirical and socially constructed, bridging a key epistemological divide in IS. Storytelling as paradigm shift is explored and demonstrated in three sections that (a) define story and storytelling, (b) describe how story and storytelling can extend the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW) pyramid, and (c) revise DIKW as a new storytelling S-DIKW framework. Future IS storytelling research should account for story and the dynamics of storytelling not merely as a subset of information or of information behavior, but as a fundamental information form.
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U2 - 10.1002/asi.24466
DO - 10.1002/asi.24466
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102490364
SN - 2330-1635
VL - 72
SP - 1223
EP - 1233
JO - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
IS - 10
ER -