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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"information seeking behavior"”.
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Understanding information seeking behavior through network traffic analysis
Many of today's information workers use the Internet as a valuable first-choice source for new knowledge. As such, Internet based information seeking is a key part of how information workers find information. This study develops techniques to quantify the information seeking patterns of information …
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Reading selection as information seeking behavior: A case study with adolescent girls.
The aim of this research, Reading Selection as Information Seeking Behavior: A Case Study with Adolescent Girls, was to explore how the experience of reading fiction affects adolescent girls aged 13 through 15, and how that experience changes based upon four activities: journaling, blogging, a …
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The Politics of Getting the Joke: The Effects of Political Humor on Information Seeking Behavior
… encourages the survey participants towards seeking more information about an important domestic issue: the fiscal cliff crisis.;Using two parallel experimental surveys, this dissertation empirically investigates the effect that political humor has on viewers. This dissertation tests whether …
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Faculty Use of the World Wide Web: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in a Digital Environment
… long history of studying library users and their information seeking behaviors and activities. Researchers developed models to better understand these information seeking behaviors and activities of users. Most of these models were developed before the onset of the Internet. This research project …
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Farmers' information-seeking behavior, and impact of information source on soybean technology adoption in Nigeria
Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:17:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9503229.pdf: 8236664 bytes, checksum: 513900954465c36ea470c88decde3387 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1994
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Effects of health information seeking behaviors on anxiety, and loss among East Asian international students
… study examined the influences of anxiety, health information seeking behavior, cross-cultural loss on satisfaction with life among 186 East Asian international students while studying abroad in the U.S. The results showed that general and health anxiety are both significantly associated with …
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A study of the relationships among perceived job context factors, information-seeking behaviors, work engagement, and future role intent among Korean project managers
… and job autonomy), role breadth self-efficacy, information- seeking behavior, work engagement, and future role intent among employees in project management roles. The conceptual model identified coworker trust, job autonomy, and role breadth self-efficacy as antecedents of information-seeking …
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Information Needs of Art Museum Visitors: Real and Virtual
… with a variety of users. While studies of information seeking behavior, retrieval systems and metadata in library science have a long history; such research studies in museum environments are at their early experimental stage. There are few studies concerning information seeking behavior …
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Structural constraints and situational information seeking: a test of two predictors in a sense-making context
… versus structural conceptualizations of human information seeking behavior in communication research. In examining traditional, structuralist, and interpretivist approaches, these two issues seem to have similar bases. Rather than abandon a focus on individual behavior in favor of structural …
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An Investigation of Digital Reference Interviews: A Dialogue Act Approach
… linguistic interactions in people's online information-seeking activities in daily life - something that the web search engines still lack because of the complexity of this hu- man behavior. The presented research consists of an investigation of the information-seeking behavior of digital …
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An ethnographic analysis of adolescent sexual minority website usage: exploring notions of information seeking and sexual identity development
… sexual minorities, examining notions of information seeking and sexual identity development. Sexual information seeking is an important element within human information behavior and is uniquely problematic for young sexual minorities. Utilizing a contemporary gay teen website, this …
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Self-stigma, trust in the oncologists and information seeking behaviors in breast cancer patients and survivors
… as well as the BC patients' different information seeking behaviors: (i) Self-Stigma Characteristics in BC Treatment Stages and Among Racial Groups (ii) Trust in the Oncologist as Information Source and Self-stigma in Prognosis Communication in Breast Cancer and Patients and Survivors …
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Needs of familial caregivers of cancer patients across the advanced cancer disease trajectory.
… and comorbidity. This study examines particular information needs across a variety of specific events in the advanced cancer disease trajectory. A cross-sectional sample of 107 familial caregivers (24 current and 83 bereaved) of people with advanced cancer completed a needs assessment survey …
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Investigating IoT Adoption in the Face of Organizational Culture and Uncertainty Challenges: The Mediating Role of Information Behaviors on Communication Quality
… Uncertainty Avoidance, Organizational Culture, Information Availability, Information-Seeking Behavior, and IoT Service Agility and their collective impact on Communication Quality at the University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia. Employing a sequential explanatory design, quantitative data from 373 …
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Entre demandas e desejos: necessidades informacionais de jornalistas no cenário de jornais paraibanos
Studies on journalists, while information users are scarce in Brazil. In spite of these professionals have as object of work information, the literature indicates that the study of their needs, use, access, barriers etc., has awakened the interest of researchers to explore this theme. This research …
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Knowledge construction, social identity and social network structure in completely online groups
Working, learning and informal information-seeking behavior is rapidly moving online. It will increasingly involve collaboration within small groups meeting online. While this process is being driven by technological innovation, the important socio-technical issues of human computer, human-human …
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Applying the 5S Framework To Integrating Digital Libraries
… integrating 5S theory with diverse research on information systems success and adoption models, and information-seeking behavior models.
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Culturally-Relevant Information Literacy: A Case Study
Information Literacy is a process for finding, using, evaluating and incorporating information into an individuals’ knowledge base. This process has been formalized into the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. The concept of Information Literacy as articulated in …
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LibX IE: An Internet Explorer Add-On for Direct Library Access
… productivity and augments the user's existing information-seeking behavior. We extended the existing Firefox version of LibX into a browser-agnostic framework, allowing LibX services to be provided on multiple browser platforms. We created a toolbar and context menu system, written in C#, to …
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A High-quality Digital Library Supporting Computing Education: The Ensemble Approach
Educational Digital Libraries (DLs) are complex information systems which are designed to support individuals' information needs and information seeking behavior. To have a broad impact on the communities in education and to serve for a long period, DLs need to structure and organize the resources …
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