Research Outcomes

This project grew out of the doctoral dissertation of Tim Gorichanaz, presented in 2018 at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics.

The dissertation, Understanding Self-Documentation, was awarded the 2019 ASIS&T ProQuest Dissertation Award, the 2019 ALISE Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the 2017 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information.

The following academic research publications came out of the dissertation:

• Gorichanaz, T. (2017). Applied epistemology and understanding in information studies. Information Research, 22(4), Article 776.
• Gorichanaz, T. (2017). Understanding art-making as documentation. Art Documentation, 36(2), 191–203.
• Gorichanaz, T. (2018). Art and everyday information behavior: Sources of understanding. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 55(1), 143–150.
• Gorichanaz, T. (2019). A first-person theory of documentation. Journal of Documentation, 75(1), 190–212.
• Gorichanaz, T. (2019). Understanding and information in the work of visual artists. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology.

In addition, the following articles build upon the work done in the dissertation:

• Gorichanaz, T. (2019). The self and the ontic trust: Toward technologies of care and meaning. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 17(3).
• Gorichanaz, T. (2019, in press). Conceptualizing self-documentation. Online Information Review.