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Knowledge creation, sharing, and management processes are commonly hidden, and this is even more the case regarding ignorance processes such as the denial and obfuscation of knowledge. Understanding the construction, generation, and perpetuation of ignorance can: (i) provide insights into social phenomena that might otherwise seem inexplicable (for instance, persistence of \u201curban myths\u201d), and (ii) enable development of interventions to either facilitate (as with privacy\u2010sensitive material) or combat (as with malicious disinformation) ignorance. Although several pressing information issues relate to ignorance, <jats:italic>agnotology<\/jats:italic> (the study of ignorance) has only recently entered into the information science literature. An agnotologic approach expands the repertoire of methods and approaches in social informatics, better enabling the field to grapple with pressing contemporary issues of mis\/dis\/lack of information. 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