... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information-seeking Gatekeeping Risk analysis Extreme sport Adventure tourism Serious leisure Cave diving Funding: Funding for this study provided by Dalhousie University. A review of the literature revealed a lack of research...

...Svetlana Norkin; Katriina Byström Purpose This paper aims to examine the interaction between gatekeeping and trust in a public sector organization, where employees at lower hierarchical levels are expected to autonomously translate and transform directives into public services. This requires them...

...Devendra Dilip Potnis; Macy Halladay Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate why and how gatekeepers on social networking sites (SNS) create what types of information benefits for gated, vulnerable, pregnant women in the rural United States. Design/methodology/approach...

...Reijo Savolainen Purpose This study aims to elaborate the picture of the relationships between information and power by examining how expert power appears in the characterizations of gatekeeping presented in the research literature. Design/methodology/approach This study uses conceptual...