Hirvonen's and Huhta's presentation in CoLis 2019.

1. NOORA HIRVONEN & ANNA-MAIJA HUHTA
Employing nexus
analysis in
investigating
information
literacy

2. Common ground with
research examining
information literacy
from socially oriented
approaches
Information literacy as
practices mediated by cultural
tools
Sociocultural
Information literacy as
constructed through language
use
Discourse analytical
Information literacy as
reproductive & situated
practices
Practice theoretical

3. Nexus analysis
Practice theoretical approach
Action-oriented approach to discourse analysis
Form of ethnography
Roots in sociolinguistics
Social & mediated action
Multimodal discourses
Discourses in action Central tasks:
engaging, navigating, changing
Four data types
Theoretical perspective Methodological
guidelines
Social issue as a starting
point

4. "the point at which
historical
trajectories of
people, places,
discourses, ideas,
and objects come
together to enable
some action" (Scollon
& Scollon 2004, viii)
Nexus of
practice
social
action
Historical
body
Discourses in
place
interaction
order
Accumulation of
experiences, learned
practices and
understandings
Overt and hidden
discursive elements
circulating in the scene
of action
Power relationships,
mutual histories and
other relationhips

5. Empirical example:
Information literacy
practices of a young
video blogger "Jane"

6. Identification of
relevant scenes and
actions
Engaging
More detailed
examination of selected
practices, discourses,
actions and tools
Navigating
Researcher's influence
on the nexus of
practice
Changing
Central
tasks in
nexus
analysis

7. Data 'neutral ' observation
individual experience
interaction with members
member's generalizations
Pre-interview Video diary YouTube video Post-interview
November 2018 December 2018 November 2018 February 2019

8. Identification of
relevant scenes and
actions
Engaging
More detailed
examination of selected
practices, discourses
and actions
Navigating
Researcher's influence
on the nexus of
practice
Changing
"What's going on here?"

9. Pre-interview Video diary YouTube video Post-interview
Uses Wikipedia, but
embarrassed
Multiple sources, tips
from online health
library
Naturality & experience-
based tips
Own experience + self-
evident tips from online
library
Discourse cycles - using information
sources

10. Identification of
relevant scenes and
actions
Engaging
More detailed
examination of selected
practices, discourses
and actions
Navigating
Researcher's influence
on the nexus of
practice
Changing

11. Shifts focus from
language use &
practices within a
particular
community
Focus on
social action
Benefits
Helps understand
practices as both
emergent and
historically
reproduced
Historicity
Not only what, but
also how & why
Multiple views

12. Key literature
Scollon, R. & Scollon, S.W. (2004). Nexus
analysis: Discourse and the emerging
Internet. London: Routledge
Scollon, R. (2001). Action and text.
Toward an integrated understanding of the
place of text in social (inter)action. In
R. Wodak and M. Meyer (Eds.) Methods of
Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage.
Pp. 139-182.

13. noora.hirvonen@oulu.fi
Noora Hirvonen
https://www.oulu.fi/cogahea
lth-en/
Cognitive Authorities
in Everyday Health
Information
Environments of
Young People
anna-maija.huhta@oulu.fi
Anna-Maija Huhta