Social Information Seeking Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd /

• Main Author: Shah, Chirag (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 38
• Subjects: Computer science.; Social media.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Computational Social Sciences.; Social Media.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

This volume summarizes the author’s work on social information seeking (SIS), and at the same time serves as an introduction to the topic. Sometimes also referred to as social search or social information retrieval, this is a relatively new area of study concerned with the seeking and acquiring of i...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Information Seeking
• Social Media and Social Networking
• Online Question-Answering (Q&A)
• Social Search
• Collaborative Information Seeking
• Social and Collaborative Information Seeking
• SIS in Research and Practice
• Conclusion.