The Conceptualization and Operationalization of "Rural" in IS Research.
This scoping review of existing information studies (IS) literature related to rural spaces or people aims to answer the research question: In what ways is "rural" conceptualized and/or operationalized in existing IS literature? This study serves to aid in having the disciplines of IS scholarship jo...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 256 - 280 |
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University of Texas Press
2025
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| Sumario: | This scoping review of existing information studies (IS) literature related to rural spaces or people aims to answer the research question: In what ways is "rural" conceptualized and/or operationalized in existing IS literature? This study serves to aid in having the disciplines of IS scholarship join those that make up rural studies by illuminating how rurality already manifests in information-related scholarship. The findings relate the nine categories of definitions being used by scholars and call on scholars to be more deliberate in their invocation of rurality in IS work rather than treating it ambivalently. |
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