.... Information behavior Social media Information theory Information science Communications Social sciences © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Today people increasingly express themselves through the use of social media, communicating...

... shows lessons for development of current information society. The research is limited to one communication medium, in one country, in one decade. It is not a full historical analysis of the development of radio broadcasting, rather it is limited to information resource aspects, largely of public sector...

...Andrew Robson; Lyn Robinson Purpose This paper aims to gain insights from existing models of information behaviour, building on them to develop a new model which, unlike most others, encompasses both information seeking and communication. By identifying key factors affecting the successful...

... This analysis reveals that new models of scholarly communication need to cope with existing systems and become sustainable only when the thoughts and behaviors of insiders have been fully understood by outsiders and appropriate strategies have been taken on in practice. Originality/value A theoretical...

... within a limited number of e‐Science/Social Science projects and the intention is to address this in future work by scaling the study up to a survey that will reach the entire UK e‐Science/Social Science community. Practical implications The fundamental challenge in resolving openness in practice...

...Trine Fjordback Søndergaard; Jack Andersen; Birger Hjørland In 1971 UNISIST proposed a model for scientific and technical communication. This model has been widely cited and additional models have been added to the literature. There is a need to bring this model to the focus of information science...

... , C.R. and Chaffee , S.H. (1987), Handbook of Communication Science , Sage Publications , Newbury Park, CA. Cawkell , A.E. (2000), “ Appreciation: the remarkable Mr Fairthorne ”, Journal of Information Science ,Vol. 26 No. 5 , pp. 289 ‐ 90 . Cawkell , T. (2001...

...Jack Andersen In this article an epistemological interpretation of the role of subject literature in scholarly communication shall be proposed. Such an interpretation will focus on the epistemological dimension of communicating knowledge through literature and how this is achieved through...

... cluster on the publication maps is only partly satisfied in the second period. A third hypothesis, that countries located near the central cluster on the citation maps may hold high(er) NIFs is falsified. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Information systems Communications Research and development...