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Sensible Shopping: A Sensory Exploration of the Information Environment of the Grocery Store

Ocepek, Melissa G.

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Title
Sensible Shopping: A Sensory Exploration of the Information Environment of the Grocery Store
Author(s)
Ocepek, Melissa G.
Issue Date
2018
Keyword(s)
  • Information science
  • Information
  • Embodied experience
  • Information behavior
  • Grocery shopping
Abstract
Grocery shopping is an everyday activity ideal for exploring how the body impacts information behaviors in the form of sensory-based information sources. Previous information behavior research has largely ignored the body and its relationship to information behaviors. The present work expands two areas of information behavior research, the importance of the body in information behavior, and our understanding of nontextual and verbal information sources. Both expansions work toward creating a more accurate and holistic understanding of information behaviors and the contexts they exist within. Through two empirical studies using qualitative methods, the sensory experience of the grocery store is explored. Findings demonstrate that grocery shoppers rely on their sight, taste, touch, and smell in the act of information seeking, encountering, sharing, and browsing throughout the process of grocery shopping.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 66 (3). Winter 2018
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101424
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0008
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2018 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 66 (3) Winter 2018: Information and the Body: Part 1 PRIMARY
Library Trends 66 (3) Winter 2018: Information and the Body: Part 1. Edited by Andrew M. Cox, Brian Griffin, and Jenna Hartel