The journey of information. How students perceive information in France using the draw and write technique.
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Introduction. This study is part of an international initiative promoting an alternative arts-informed visual approach to study the conceptions of information worldwide.
Method. Participants in our study were masters’ students in the School of Journalism and Communication at Aix-Marseille University in France. 52 drawings and their corresponding textual definitions were gathered.
Analysis. A thematic analysis of the drawings was performed with the aim to identify major themes across the drawings and the texts, as well as the underlying theories evoked.
Results. The thematic analysis revealed six recurring themes that portray a journey of information, from its most basic manifestation as bits of data to its more complex and societal functions.
Conclusion. Although recurring themes appeared in the drawings made by the participants studying media and communication studies in France and the ones made by North American students enrolled in information studies in Canada (Hartel 2014), the differentia resided in the theories evoked in the drawings, which in turn reflected the ‘intellectual homes’ of the students. Our study tended to show that intellectual or academic factors outweigh cultural, linguistic or geographic ones in the students’ conceptions of information. This would indicate the importance of the domain over linguistic or geographic factors in their conceptions of information.
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