%0 Journal Article %T Symmetric Information Interaction Model: Redefinition Of the Place of Technology in Information Interaction %J International Journal of Digital Content Management %I Allameh Tabataba'i University %Z 2717-3305 %A Nazi, Ayoob %A Sharifzadeh, Rahman %A Heidari, Gholamreza %D 2021 %\ 03/01/2021 %V 2 %N 3 %P 243-266 %! Symmetric Information Interaction Model: Redefinition Of the Place of Technology in Information Interaction %K Information interaction %K information seeking %K symmetric model %K technology agency %K Human %K non-human %R 10.22054/dcm.2021.13685 %X The aim of this study is to review and redefine the interaction process with information based on a holistic approach. The data required for this qualitative study were collected through semi-structured interviews among 18 individuals and analyzed using thematic analysis. The network of themes making up the information interactions consists of 5 global themes which have been extracted among 23 organizing ones. These themes include the beginning, orientation, networking, and consolidation, which can be interpreted in terms of the symmetry theme as a kind of looking at humans and non-humans in a three-layered context including the internal, external, and technology-tools contexts. The new view of interaction with information has taken it beyond the interpretation scope from the human user’s perspective and observes it alongside non-human factors. As a result of such an approach, the non-human factors in the role of infrastructure and technology-tool context, meet specific and interpretable effects along with human ones, external and internal contexts. %U https://dcm.atu.ac.ir/article_13685_a920570705b9ebfae7d88d8d02ef28b5.pdf