Explaining Ignoring: Working with Information that Nobody Uses

Research has demonstrated how ignorance is made, manipulated and called upon; it the result of strategies, activities structures. This article extends literature on by exploring actors’ own explanations their self-inflicted following acts ignoring. By means a case analysis, we explore actors explain justify ignoring data they themselves produced. We provide multifaceted model rationales, facilitated contextual conditions, enables persistent content dysfunction collectively upheld systems. contribute to understanding demonstrating made possible combination rationales facilitators, which configures buffers against knowledge-seeking efforts.