1st Edition

Multispecies Information Science

Edited By Niloofar Solhjoo Copyright 2026
266 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Multispecies Information Science offers a comprehensive overview of this subfield, shifting the focus beyond humans to explore the rich and complex realms of information and knowledge shared with animals, plants, microbes, technologies, and landscapes. Bridging theory and practice, this volume traces the evolution of multispecies movement in information science, from Suzanne Briet’s... Read more

List of figures

List of contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgement

List of Abbreviations

  

Section 1: Multispecies fundamentals

Niloofar Solhjoo

1  The footprints of animals in library and information science

Niloofar Solhjoo and Jenna Hartel

2  Researching information behaviour among multiple species

Marcia J. Bates

3  Information experience for the expanding circle: Insights from animal–computer interaction and more-than-human–computer interaction

Tim Gorichanaz

4  The animal's importance for neo-documentation: a 'copernican revolution' in understanding information

Ronald E. Day

5  When animals teach: Lessons for information pedagogy

Niloofar Solhjoo and Jenna Hartel

6  The ethics of multispecies information research: An exploratory dialogue

Steve Fuller and Finn Lees

7  Research Pathways for multispecies information science

Niloofar Solhjoo

Section 2: Multispecies studies

Niloofar Solhjoo

8  Live, laugh, love urban wildlife

Dirk van der Linden

9  Urban dog parks as information grounds: A multispecies family perspective

Bhuva Narayan

10  Frosted muzzles and digital bonds: Embodied information practices and affective adoption in a crisis shelter ecology

Monika Krakowska and Magdalena Zych

11  Building a bonsai bond: Pursuit of perfection through a person-plant partnership

Yazdan Mansourian

12  Distributed agency and materiality in biodiversity citizen science

Björn Ekström and Ola Pilerot

13  Habitats of archaeological knowledge: From information ecologies to information-in-ecologies

Isto Huvila

14  Massive unseen companions and the documentary project

Erik Radio

Index

 

Biography

Niloofar Solhjoo is a lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her research focuses on information experience, human-animal and multi-species relationships.