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Information science

a theory that people in a small world accept a taken-for-granted reality and seek outside information only when it is needed.

In information science, life in the round refers to a theory that people in a small world accept a taken-for-granted reality and seek outside information only when it is needed. This meaning comes from Chatman (1999) in Journal of the American Society for Information Science.[1]

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information4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs round3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs small-world3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

References

Chatman, E. A. (1999). A theory of life in the round. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(3), 207-217. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:3<207::aid-asi3>3.0.co;2-8

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