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Colliding Norms, Community, and the Place of Online Information: The Case of archive.org

Burnett, Gary

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Title
Colliding Norms, Community, and the Place of Online Information: The Case of archive.org
Author(s)
Burnett, Gary
Issue Date
2009
Keyword(s)
  • Normative behavior theory
  • Online archives
  • Library collections
  • Collection policies
Abstract
The theory of normative behavior (Burnett, Besant, and Chatman, 2001) examines aspects of information behavior in the context of definable social groupings of people, or “small worlds.” Using the concept of “worldview,” derived from the theory, this article examines a controversy that erupted in the Live Music Archive (LMA) of archive.org in November 2005 when access to a collection of live concert recordings by the Grateful Dead was limited. It analyzes posts made by representatives of the archive, participants in the forum, and a small handful of statements made by band members and representatives in order to understand the controversy as an instance in which participants shared some elements of a common worldview but, because they understood those elements differently, emerge as three different small worlds.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Library Trends 57 (4) Spring 2009: Pleasurable Pursuits: Leisure and LIS Research PRIMARY
Library Trends 57 (4) Spring 2009: Pleasurable Pursuits: Leisure and LIS Research. Edited by Crystal Fulton and Ruth Vondracek.