Document (#25299)

Author

Audunson, R.

Title

Can institutional theory contribute to our understanding of information seeking behaviour?

Source

Exploring the contexts of information behaviour: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts, Sheffield, UK, 1998. Ed. by D.K. Wilson u. D.K. Allen

Imprint

London : Taylor Graham Publ.

Year

1999

Pages

S.67-81

Abstract

The primary ambition with this paper is to discuss the fruitfulness of integrating institutional perspectives in a model aiming at explaining information seekingbehaviour. We will be particularly preoccupied with institutionalised norms of appropriate behaviour. One recent example from Norwegian mass media serves to illustrate the point: What kinds of information is it appropriate for members of a jury to take into consideration? During the spring of 1998, Norwegian mass media abounded with reports from a murder case. A young boy of 20 was charged with having murdered and sexually abused his younger female cousin. There was no technical evidence against the boy. After long police interrogations, however, the boy confessed to have committed the crime. Even the boy's lawyer accepted the result of the police investigation, and the case seemed to be solved. After a while, however, the counsel for the defence identified what he believed to be major flaws in the police's chain of evidence and in the police investigation as a whole. On his own initiative he withdrew his client's confession. The boy, on his part, maintained that he had been pressed to confess and to believe that he suffered from a loss of memory. In the court word stood against word, witness against witness and expert against expert. In the stipendiary magistrate's court, the boy was sentenced. One professor of law from the Oslo University heavily criticised the sentence, accusing the judges for basing their decision upon information that they cannot legally take into account. When the case came up before the crown court, the professor once against warned the jury against taking inappropriate information into account. The jury is supposed to evaluate the factual evidence.

Field

Kommunikationswissenschaften
Rechtswissenschaft

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