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The effects of social media addiction on reading practice: a survey of undergraduate students in China
Liu, Ziming; Hu, Rui; Bi, Xiaojun - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2022) 3, pp. 670-682
exploration of the effects of social media addiction on students' reading practice. This paper aims to explore the effects of … social media addiction on reading preferences, in-depth reading and sustained attention. Design/methodology/approach Survey …; however, prolonged social media use holds the danger of becoming a behavioral addiction that threatens to undermine one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014855153
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Wikipedia: an unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship
Smith, Denise A. - In: Journal of Documentation 78 (2021) 3, pp. 696-708
Purpose To date, health information behaviour (HIB) models have not been applied to an exploration of Wikipedia as a … approach to exploring the role of Wikipedia in consumer health information behaviour (CHIB) that is grounded in a conceptual … that Longo's expanded conceptual model of health information-seeking behaviour (ECMHISB) could be valuable and useful for …
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Social relevance assessments for virtual worlds
Costello, Kaitlin Light - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 6, pp. 1209-1227
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of social relevance assessments, which are judgments made by individuals when they seek out information within virtual social worlds such as online support groups (OSGs). Design/methodology/approach Constructivist grounded theory was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014855258
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Information seeking in the context of writing
Attfield, Simon; Blandford, Ann; Dowell, John - In: Journal of Documentation 59 (2003) 4, pp. 430-453
Information seeking does not occur in a vacuum but invariably is motivated by some wider task. It is well accepted that to understand information seeking we must understand the task context within which it takes place. Writing is amongst the most common tasks within which information seeking is...
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Multitasking information behavior and information task switching: an exploratory study
Spink, Amanda - In: Journal of Documentation 60 (2004) 4, pp. 336-351
Recent studies show that humans engage in multitasking information behaviors, often in libraries, as they seek and search for information on more than one information task. Multitasking information behaviors may consist of library search and use behaviors, or database or Web search sessions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853069
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Fast surfing, broad scanning and deep diving
Heinström, Jannica - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 2, pp. 228-247
behaviour, not actual observations. Although the statistical results were significant, generalisable conclusions would have … populations and contexts. Originality/value – Information‐seeking behaviour has not previously been studied in relation to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853110
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Reading behavior in the digital environment
Liu, Ziming - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 6, pp. 700-712
Purpose – This study attempts to investigate reading behavior in the digital environment by analyzing how people's reading behavior has changed over the past ten years. Design/methodology/approach – Survey and analysis methods are employed. Findings – With an increasing amount of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853160
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Towards an evolutionary perspective for human information behavior
Spink, Amanda; Currier, James - In: Journal of Documentation 62 (2006) 2, pp. 171-193
Purpose – Since the beginning of human existence, humankind has sought, organized and used information as it evolved patterns and practices of human information behaviors. However, the field of human information behavior (HIB) has not heretofore pursued an evolutionary understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853185
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Knowledge of information behaviour and its relevance to the design of people‐centred information products and services
Hepworth, Mark - In: Journal of Documentation 63 (2007) 1, pp. 33-56
people‐centred information solutions; second, to develop a broad ontology of information behaviour research that serves to …/methodology/approach – The author draws on the information behaviour literature to highlight key drivers and to develop and illustrate the … practice does provide an indication of the validity of this conception of one's knowledge of information behaviour to people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853237
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A discourse analysis technique for charting the flow of micro‐information behavior
Nahl, Diane - In: Journal of Documentation 63 (2007) 3, pp. 323-339
Purpose – The purpose of this research is to describe a discourse analysis technique which can be used to analyze text or speech that is produced by people when discussing their information practices. Design/methodology/approach – The method involves coding the phrases and sentences of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014853254