Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior - Rilegato

 
9781780526546: Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior
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ISBN 10: 1780526547 ISBN 13: 9781780526546
Casa editrice: Emerald Group Pub Ltd, 2012

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"Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior" reviews more than 50 years of research on information seeking and related topics, and contains over 1,300 citations to relevant works. Now in its third edition, this book is the most comprehensive text on the topics of information seeking, information behavior and information practices. Coverage includes the nature of information, information needs and uses, sensemaking, information avoidance, communication among scientists and scholars, relevant social and psychological theories, models of information behavior, and applicable research methodologies. Interdisciplinary in the choice of examples, the book cites research in information studies, communication, education, management, medicine, sociology and psychology. The book is intended for students and scholars in library and information science, communication, education and related disciplines. Presenting a broad view of these topics, this text is suitable as a companion for courses ranging from undergraduate level to doctoral studies related to information-seeking, information practices and information behavior. In addition, it is a useful reference guide for established scholars.

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"And so to the 75-dollar question: Should I buy this new edition? I think the answer must be an unqualified, Yes... Donald Case has done the field a huge favour in continually updating and expanding his master work: he deserves our thanks." Wilson, T.D. (2012). Review of: Case, Donald O. Looking for information: a survey of research on information seeking, needs and behavior. 3rd ed. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Group, 2012. Information Research, 17(2), review no. R440 [Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs440.html]

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Editore
Emerald Group Pub Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1780526547
ISBN 13 
9781780526546
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
3
Numero di pagine
491
Redattore
Case Donald O.
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