New Directions in Human Information Behavior

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spink, Amanda (Editor), Cole, Charles (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Information Science and Knowledge Management, 8
• Subjects: Computer science.; Library science.; Social sciences.; Human geography.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.; Human Geography.; Library Science.; Social Sciences, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.

New Directions in Human Information Behavior, co-edited by Drs. Amanda Spink and Charles Cole provides an understanding of the new directions, leading edge theories and models in human information behavior. Information behavior is conceptualized as complex human information related processes that ar...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: New Directions in Human Information Behavior
• Evolutionary and Social HIB Frameworks
• Emerging Evolutionary Approach to Human Information Behavior
• Information Behavior in Pre-literate Societies
• Toward a Social Framework for Information Seeking
• Spatial and Collaborative HIB Frameworks
• Mapping Textually Mediated Information Practice in Clinical Midwifery Care
• Information Grounds: Theoretical Basis and Empirical Findings on Information Flow in Social Settings
• Information Sharing
• Multitasking, Non-linear, Organizing, and Digital Frameworks
• Multitasking and Co-ordinating Framework for Human Information Behavior
• A Non-linear Perspective on Information Seeking
• A Cognitive Framework for Human Information Behavior: The Place of Metaphor in Human Information Organizing Behavior
• The Digital Information Consumer
• Integrating Framework and Further Research
• Integrations and Further Research.