Information Creation as a Process in my own words basically refers to the various stages and processes one goes through in order to create information. While the class was going on and Ms Shehaamah spoke about this frame my mind was running on just the various ways it overlaps with various other frames. How it overlaps with Scholarship as a Conversation is by means of taking part of the 'Conversation' one ultimately publish their researched work and add to the conversation and thus create new information.
How it overlaps with 'Research as Inquiry', one of the knowledge practices' of research as inquiry asks one to assess the gap in knowledge and attempt to fill the gap and weaknesses in existing fields and ask new questions which leads to new answers and ultimately more new questions. That is how it relates or overlaps with research as inquiry.
As Shehaamah said in class it is quite straightforward I think sometimes it is too closely linked to a second frame and this is where sometimes it becomes confusing. In the case of Information Creation as a Process it looks at almost everything we did with authority as contextual and constructed.
I think the basic idea behind this frame is to teach us that the process deserves respect and acknowledgment. It is a tedious process which requires accuracy. Information is created based on a need and purpose and researchers will do well to try and understand the purpose behind the information that was created. It is also said that experts know that it isn't the format that counts when one looks for information but rather the content of that information.
The Peer-Review Process used as an example in class on this frame teaches us exactly why we do need to respect the process of information creation. It goes through a group of experts in a field and they give advice and tips on what to change and the researcher need to go back and fix whatever requires fixing. Here it comes back to research as inquiry being iterative.
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