Also notable in Wilson’s second 1981 model is the presence of the “user’s life world”.
This – although Wilson did not develop it as such here – is an early example of a
philosophical concept, which has great significance for the understanding of
information behaviour. It is a subtle concept, which has been expressed and
understood in various ways, and there is no agreement on which is most useful,
although this kind of viewpoint underlies much of the “information in context”
approach to research (Vakkari, 1997). It may be seen, and related to the concerns of
information science research, in Wittgenstein’s “forms of life” (Blair, 2006) and
Bourdieu’s habitus (Savolainen, 2005).