The set of articles in this special issue bring together a diverse set of scholars concerned with research that illuminates people's experiences with and perceptions of information within the traditions of information behavior (Wilson, 1999) or information practice (Savolainen, 2007).\nWhile there is a well‐established body of frameworks and models (Case & Given, 2016; Fisher, Erdelez, & McKechnie, 2005) which support theorizing information behavior and information practice, there are questions about how these help conceptualize the changing relationship between technology and information. In proposing this special issue, we were particularly interested in new theoretical perspectives and theoretical developments. These include the “practice‐turn,” affordances and sociomateriality (Gibson, 1977; Orlikowski, 2007; Schatzki, Knorr‐Cetina, & von Savigny, 2001). We were particularly interested in the ways in which these theories contribute to information studies and demonstrate that the discipline offers a fertile landscape for expanding these theories. We expected that scholars would present articles that used or developed these theories to focus on the ways people engage with information technology and the way it changes how people interact with information. What we found, however, was that most of the submissions looked towards other forms of materiality and interaction providing a theoretically rich, stimulating, and novel set of alternative understandings.
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