Tactical religious information practices of theological students from unregistered Christian communities in China: walking, place-making, reading, and deception = 策略性資訊作為: 中國家庭教会的神學生之遊走, 挪借, 閱讀, 偽裝
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Tactical religious information practices of theological students from unregistered Christian communities in China: walking, place-making, reading, and deception = 策略性資訊作為: 中國家庭教会的神學生之遊走, 挪借, 閱讀, 偽裝. Retrieved from
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TitleTactical religious information practices of theological students from unregistered Christian communities in China: walking, place-making, reading, and deception = 策略性資訊作為: 中國家庭教会的神學生之遊走, 挪借, 閱讀, 偽裝
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-10 (degree)
SubjectInformation science, Religion, Cultural anthropology, Geography, Library science, Reginal studies, Seminarians -- United States, Chinese students -- United States, House churches -- China, Non-institutional churches -- China, Information behavior
Extent1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionThis study on tactical religious information practices of transnational theological students from China is an emergent topic to the LIS field. Investigating the information practices of sixteen theological students who came from unregistered Christian communities throughout China, this study is significant because it integrated literature in five areas and across four disciplines, and applied innovative Information World Map method (Greyson et al., 2017, 2019) to examine their practices of walking, place-making, reading, and deception/disguise (de Certeau,1984). This study addressed the following research questions: 1) What information practice patterns the transnational theological students from the clandestine Christian communities in China exhibited? 2) What changes occurred in these patterns across places over time? and 3) What role does information intents play in the information practices and learning transfer of these theological students when they embarked on journeys of seeking religious information at theological seminaries in the United States? Using the expanded categories in Todd’s (1997, 1999a, 1999b, 2005) theory of information intents—to expand, to change, to be clearer, to verify, to position, and to connect, this study measured the changes of the participants’ practices in seeking and using religious information across places over time. This study found that surveillance towards certain religious communities could cause information poverty of the members in these religious communities. The oral and geographical data collected from the semi-structured interviews demonstrated changes of information intents to three main intents (to expand, to connect, and to position) in their practices of walking, place-making, reading, and deception/disguise in a new environment. The findings contribute to LIS scholarship by extending Todd’s cognitive theory of information intents to examine information practices and expands four out of the six well-established propositions in Chatman’s (1996) theory of information poverty to include geography and religion as influential factors.
本文從資訊學的方法論: 資訊貧乏 / 不平等, 資訊意圖, 以及文化批判學, 認知學習理論入手, 深入採訪十六位來自中國家庭教会, 目前分布在美國六所主要的神學院進修的神學生, 分析他們的對策性資訊作為: 遊走, 挪借, 閱讀, 偽裝. 研究發現在歷經時, 空改變的過程中, 這批中國神學生的資訊意圖之改變造成了遊走, 挪借, 閱讀, 偽裝各項對策性資訊作為之改變, 並影響認知之改變. 因此, 本研究證明 Ross Todd 之資訊意圖理論也可以有效運用於分析資訊作為; 本研究並進一步擴充 Chatman 的資訊貧乏理論中之六項命題的其中四項: 1. 資訊貧乏 / 不平等的處境反而激發創意的對策性資訊作為. 2. 資訊貧乏 / 不平等未必因為經濟因素, 宗教取向也能引起資訊貧乏. 3. 遊走, 挪借, 偽裝的對策性資訊作為是起因於強勢的宗教政策. 4. 資訊貧乏 / 不平等的社會處境導致這群中國家庭教會的成員冒險遊走, 以尋求他們亟需的宗教資訊.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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