USING INFORMATIONAL LANDSCAPE AS A MODEL TO UNDERSTAND INFORMATION USE AND DESIGN WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract

The essay is a discussion of the use of the information landscape (ecology) model for analysis of information use and design. An infoscape (information landscape) model consists of frames of information use. These frames are sociocultural in nature. The frames of informational use bound and structure four aspects of an information system or informational situation. These aspects are people, content, processes, and relationships. The frames of information use of the infoscape model are discussed as ways of understanding information use and design. The model provides a set of categories (the frames) for raising and describing analytical questions and design solutions.