... research on information behavior and search as learning by focusing on non-native users and adopting a process-oriented perspective. The findings provide empirical insights into how search behavior supports learning in non-native language contexts and offer implications for the design of search systems...

... university students’ information behaviors on a social platform contribute to their preparation for the campus-to-career transition. Design/methodology/approach We selected a typical social platform, Rednote (Xiaohongshu), as a case to deeply explore the process of users’ information behavior...

.... The research deepens the theoretical exploration of information behavior among online knowledge payment users, providing valuable insights for knowledge producers on effectively leveraging emotional cues to attract potential customers as well as offering guidance for knowledge payment users...

... websites cannot be effectively transmitted to the general public through official online platforms. Originality/value The study highlights the gap in information behavior and usage patterns between PC and mobile device users when visiting government websites. Although mobile devices brought many new...

... factors. The consequences of information acquisition are success, failure and partial success. Accordingly, a paradigm model of information behavior has been designed. Originality/value This is the first study to identify information behavior of universities in competitive intelligence process...

...-Making and Williamson's Ecological Model of Information Behavior. Implications of COVID-19 for the normative behaviors described in these models are discussed. Findings Findings show that older adults were concerned primarily with health and political information during this period...

... such as misinformation, disinformation, infodemic and fake news. While information professionals have been called upon to lead the fight against fake news, in the lack of a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon, current efforts have been isolated and inadequate. Most models of information behavior deal...

...-being, home and personal interests, is particularly relevant to the current research. The model focuses on information behavior that previous models had neglected, including shopping, home-related activities, personal interests, hobbies, etc. The model is more closely aligned with sociological...

... naturalistic sources of data about the blogger's illness-related information behavior (Neal and McKenzie, 2011). Bloggers often write about a single topic or a set of topics, forming niche communities (Ratliff, 2009). Infertility bloggers make up one of these communities, and they write mainly about...