1st Edition

Affect, Emotion, and Personal Information Management The Feelings Behind Our Files

By Lilach Alon Copyright 2027
200 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural perspectives, this book offers a new way of understanding personal information management as an emotional as well as practical activity. It explores how everyday acts such as saving, sorting, retrieving, and discarding information are tied to memory, identity, responsibility, care, and control. Affective PIM examines the emotional... Read more

00. Introduction: The PIM Paradox Part 1: Theoretical Foundations 01. What is Personal Information Management? 02. Emotions in Interaction with Information Part 2: Living With Personal Information 03. Emotions in the PIM Experience 04. Adaptive PIM Practices in Everyday Lives 05. PIM as Scaffolding During Life Transitions Part 3: Applications and Future Directions 06. Designing Affective-Sensitive PIM Platforms 07. Expanding PIM Literacy Beyond Individual Skills 08. AI and the Future of PIM 09. Conclusion: Keeping What Matters.

Biography

Lilach Alon is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Tel-Hai University, Israel. Her research lies at the intersection of Information Science, Education, and Psychology, with a particular focus on information behaviour, digital literacy, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction, especially in relation to learning, everyday information practices, and technology-rich environments.