THE RESEARCH PAPER ACCEPTED FOR PRESENTATION AT THE 17TH ECKM 2016 IN BELFAST.pdf (613.56 kB)
The impact of culture on information behaviour: A case study of the polio eradication campaigns in Nigeria
conference contribution
posted on 2017-01-13, 15:41 authored by Kunle Amidu, Janet Harrison, Wendy OlphertHuman beings actively seek information to utilise it for various reasons, especially to increase their knowledge and understanding for effective decision making and during problem-solving. However, individuals and societies are likely to have their specific patterns of information behaviours (IB), which is widely determined by their specific values and cultures. Although, various studies have generated extensive literature differentiating IB based on individuals, professional group or culture group, most of the literature simply report the differences without pointing out the underlying factors causing these differences. By considering IB evolutionarily, and linking it to all the factors of culture, such as language, tradition and religion, this study focused on the way people in Nigeria relates with the polio eradication campaign. It was found that cultural orientation greatly impacted on the way people across Nigeria relates with the polio campaign as a consequence of IB of the people within the north and south of Nigeria. The findings revealed that information interpretations, as well as the understanding derived from information, are not completely based on cognition but in the current socio-cultural interpretation of that information.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
European Conference on Knowledge ManagementCitation
AMIDU, K., HARRISON, J. and OLPHERT, W., 2016. The impact of culture on information behaviour: A case study of the polio eradication campaigns in Nigeria. IN: Moffert, S. and Galbraith, B. (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 16), Ulster University, 1st-2nd Sept.Publisher
Academic Conferences and Publishing International LimitedVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-06-13Publication date
2016Notes
This is a conference paper.ISBN
9781911218029ISSN
2048-8963Language
- en