Discursive power and resistance in the information world maps of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community leaders
| Autor: | Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa Kitzie, A. Nick Vera |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
030505 public health
05 social sciences Media studies Cultural assimilation Resistance (psychoanalysis) Citizen journalism Context (language use) Library and Information Sciences Information science 03 medical and health sciences Transgender Queer Sociology 0509 other social sciences Situational ethics 050904 information & library sciences 0305 other medical science Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Documentation. 77:638-662 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0418 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/jd-08-2020-0138 |
| Popis: | PurposeThis qualitative study explores how discursive power shapes South Carolina lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities' health information practices and how participants resist this power.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 28 LGBTQIA+ community leaders from South Carolina engaged in semi-structured interviews and information world mapping–a participatory arts-based elicitation technique–to capture the context underlying how they and their communities create, seek, use and share health information. We focus on the information world maps for this paper, employing situational analysis–a discourse analytic method for visual data–to analyze them.FindingsSix themes emerged describing how discursive power operates both within and outside of LGBTQIA+ communities: (1) producing absence, (2) providing unwanted information, (3) commoditizing LGBTQIA+ communities, (4) condensing LGBTQIA+ people into monoliths; (5) establishing the community's normative role in information practices; (6) applying assimilationist and metronormative discourses to information sources. This power negates people's information practices with less dominant LGBTQIA+ identities and marginalized intersectional identities across locations such as race and class. Participants resisted discursive power within their maps via the following tactics: (1) (re)appropriating discourses and (2) imagining new information worlds.Originality/valueThis study captures the perspectives of an understudied population–LGBTQIA+ persons from the American South–about a critical topic–their health–and frames these perspectives and topics within an informational context. Our use of information world mapping and situational analysis offers a unique and still underutilized set of qualitative methods within information science research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|