.... Findings The most significant quality of information encounters that lead to a change in worldview or strongly held beliefs is the timely alignment between the type of information resource and the phase of transformation. Academic contexts are key information grounds for transformative experiences...

... Information encountering Trust Credibility Cognitive authority Fractured information landscapes Cancer survivorship increasingly unfolds in open, networked, and platform-mediated information environments. Survivors encounter health information through search engines, social media, patient...

... The findings identify three stages of information snowballing: (a) learning by lifelong exposure and serendipitous information encountering; (b) constructing information landscapes; and (c) snowballing or gradually accumulating information. Practical implications This concept advocates for spreading...

...Sanda Erdelez; Yuan-Ho Huang; Naresh Kumar Agarwal Purpose This study investigated the moderating effect of organizational knowledge management performance on the sharing and use of information encountered by serendipity within the organization. Design/methodology/approach The authors surveyed...

...Carli V. Lowe Purpose In several existing studies of Information Encountering (IE), a recurring sub-phenomenon of serendipity arises that indicates the potential for certain unexpected encounters with information to be transformative. The author labels this sub-phenomenon Transformative...

... or re-align current work, for beginners who need to quickly understand serendipity, and for practitioners who seek to cultivate serendipity in information environments. Serendipity Information encountering Serendipitous information discovery Human information behavior Information seeking...

... of scope has resulted in some of these models beginning to incorporate aspects of information acquisition. It has been recognized that “gradually, models of information seeking have recognized information encountering as a part of information seeking behavior…” (Palsdottir, 2011 , p. 227). Examples include...

... one’s choice of sources and meanings (Chapter 11, p. 351). © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information retrieval Context Model Information science Serendipity Information encountering Research into serendipity has been...

... degrees of diversifiability. In future research, the framework needs further empirical validation in physical and digital environments. Design Affordances Serendipity Information encountering Information behaviour Individual behaviour Imagine that you enter an environment providing...

...Tingting Jiang; Fang Liu; Yu Chi Purpose – Information encountering is the serendipitous acquisition of information that requires low or no involvement and expectation of users. The purpose of this paper is to model the explicit process and the implicit factors of online information encountering...

... between information encountering is described. Empirical studies of serendipity using Citation Classics and other research approaches in information studies are described. Findings – The discrepancy between occurrences of serendipity in studies using Citation Classics and reported serendipity...