What are the ways that empirical and other research methods we have read about can help us understand information and information users? What is a user? What is a reader?

GLOSSARY TERMS: semiotics, discourse, hermeneutics, sub-text

READ: Buckland (1998)
Dervin (1989)
Eco (1984)
Gordon (1993b)
Hernon & Schwartz (2002) [online] Hjørland (2000) [New Review] Limberg (2000) [New Review] Lincoln (2002) [online] O’Connor & Park (2001) [online] Thomas & Nyce (2001)

AS: Berg (1996)
Chang & Rice (1993)
Ellis (1993)
Long (1993)
Mick et al. (1980)
Talja (1997)
Tuominen & Savolainen (1997)