Connecting Chatman to This Moment

Authors

  • Amelia Gibson College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
  • Nicole A. Cooke School of Information Science, University of South Carolina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v3i3.195

Abstract

In this editors' note, guest editors Amelia N. Gibson and Nicole A. Cooke introduce the special issue, "Chatman Revisited: Re-examining and Resituating Social Theories of Identity, Access, and Marginalization in LIS."

Author Biographies

Amelia Gibson, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland

Amelia N. Gibson is an associate professor at the College of Information Studies and the University of Maryland. Dr. Gibson studies information marginalization, trust, and safety online, and in health and learning institutions (libraries and education), with a special focus on maternal health equity and disability justice. Her current work focuses on connections between personal assessments of danger/risk and marginalized people’s use of defensive information behaviors to protect self, family, and community from institutional harm.

Nicole A. Cooke, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina

Nicole Cooke is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her research and teaching interests include human information behavior, critical cultural information studies, and diversity and social justice in librarianship. She was the 2019 ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, and she has edited and authored several books, including Information Services to Diverse Populations and Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-truth Era.

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Published

2023-06-04

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2021): Chatman Revisited: Re-examining and Resituating Social Theories of Identity, Access, and Marginalization in LIS

Section

Editors' Note

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Copyright (c) 2023 Amelia Gibson, Nicole A. Cooke

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