...Qiuyan Guo Purpose This paper investigates how Chinese celebrity fans create and share “unneeded” interpretation-centered information within their communities online. Fans’ information activities and their approach to the information needs of both like-minded and dissenting community members...

...Spyros Kolyvas; Konstantina Martzoukou; Petros A. Kostagiolas Purpose There is a current research gap based on exploring the information behaviour of visual artists (professional, semi-professional and amateur) and, particularly, the impact of their information needs satisfaction...

... mortality and limited access to essential services. Understanding autistic people’s information needs and information journeys is therefore crucial. Design/methodology/approach The research consisted of two consecutive qualitative studies. First, a sample of posts from an online autism group, made...

...Samuel Dodson Purpose This paper explores the information needs and behaviors of undergraduate engineers. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports on a qualitative study employing semi-structured interviews with 18 students. Findings The study identified the types of information needs...

...Spyros Kolyvas; Petros A. Kostagiolas; Konstantina Martzoukou Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate how the information needs satisfaction of visual art teachers affects their creativity. Visual art teachers’ information seeking behaviour and specifically the association of information...

...Efpraxia D. Zamani; Laura Sbaffi; Khumbo Kalua Purpose The aim of this study was to address the unmet information needs of Malawian informal carers. We report on a three-year project which we co-created with informal carers, medical doctors and NGOs with the view to disseminate health advisory...

...Sarah Hargreaves; Laura Sbaffi; Nigel Ford Purpose This paper both supports previous findings relating to, and presents new insights into: the information needs and the information seeking processes of a sample of informal caregivers of people with dementia (in relation to their own needs...

...Dan Wu; Shu Fan; Shengyi Yao; Shuang Xu Purpose Ethnic minorities (EMs), who make up a sizable proportion of multilingual users, are more likely to browse and search in their native language. It is helpful to identify multilingual users' information needs to provide public digital cultural...

... Collaborative authorship Information needs Video games It has become commonplace to note that video games have become one of the signature emergent media forms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In the 50 years since video games became widely available in the marketplace (both Pong...

... of information practices by introducing the context of enforced disappearances using the example of Colombia, identifying a significant information-seeking process. Information seeking Colombia Information needs Communities of practice Information practices Enforced disappearance Human rights...

...Qing Ke; Jia Tina Du; Lu Ji The purpose of this paper is to understand how the contextual factors of health crisis information needs are different from a general health context and how these factors work together to shape human information needs. This study collected the COVID-19-related...

.../methodology/approach 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants from the Croatian community in New Zealand. Findings The main findings reveal two categories of information needs related to a home country: internally motivated and externally motivated. Information is accessed through...

... conceptualisation for explicating information interactions when existing information is taken into use rather than sought that have received little attention in traditional models and theories of human information behaviour. Information seeking Scaffolding Information behaviour Information needs Genre...

... searching and organization systems and relevant library services are not satisfying anime users’ needs. RQ1. What are the primary information needs of individuals in anime communities when they seek anime recommendations? RQ2. How are the information needs of individuals...

... sport enthusiasts in Australia. It identifies and provides a typology of the 12 categories of information needed by enthusiasts. Provides a preliminary motor sport information behaviour model guided by the conceptual frameworks of the everyday life information seeking model; general models...

...Jacob Dankasa Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the pattern of everyday life information needs of a group of people in an area with limited access to information, and to investigate how the major dimensions of the everyday life information seeking (ELIS) model apply...

... of information needs satisfaction in musical creativity. A number of studies in information science literature have been carried out attempting to model cognitive, affective, behavioural and contextual factors associated with music information seeking behaviour. However, only few studies have addressed...

..., including the Web Accessibility Initiative, the Digital Signature Initiative and the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project. © MCB UP Limited 1999 World Wide Web Information needs Data processing Journal of Documentation, Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1999 © Aslib, The Association...