Applicability of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory on information behaviour studies

Authors

  • Raciel García Rodríguez Universidad de Matanzas – UM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2017.336

Keywords:

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, information behavior, information seeking

Abstract

Potentialities on how the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory can be applied to the information behavior studies are exposed, offering an extensive batch of arguments and reasons that justify this proposal, in virtue of getting a more comprehensive understanding of the different ways through which individuals seek, search, retrieve and make use of the information they need, by also using a transdisciplinary approach that strengthens this view.

Author Biography

Raciel García Rodríguez, Universidad de Matanzas – UM

Profesor de la Universidad de Matanzas (Cuba). Dirección de Informatización/Gestión de Información y el Conocimiento. Licenciatura/Maestría en Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad de La Habana (Cuba).

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2017-12-07

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García Rodríguez, R. (2017). Applicability of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory on information behaviour studies. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (67), 69–83. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2017.336

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