...Maria Mulder; Heather O’Brien; Faith English; Devon Greyson Purpose Cannabis use in pregnancy and lactation is under-researched and politically taboo, resulting in a challenging context for information seeking and health decision-making. This study explored the information needs and information...

... and emotional regulation. Information practices News consumption Emotion regulation Wartime Information seeking Information validation During acute crises, such as wartime, news consumption becomes a practical means for keeping steady, not only a conduit for facts (Lachlan et al...

..., sometimes a long time. However, there seem to be some level of intention behind each piece of work. Not all information seeking is intentional; serendipity plays a crucial role in the artistic process. It involves the occurrence of unexpected and fortunate discoveries that can lead to an insightful “aha...

...Reijo Savolainen Purpose This study aims to elaborate the nature of political information seeking and sharing in social Q&A platforms in times of significant political events such as presidential election. Design/methodology/approach The research framework draws on the Information Utility...

... platforms, in particular Google Drive and Facebook Messenger, to work around these limitations and resolve their information needs. I begin this paper by reviewing the literature on information needs and the information-seeking behaviors of undergraduates. Following that, I offer an overview...

... are presented. Originality/value This paper makes an original contribution to the study of information seeking and to sense making theory and methodology. Margaret Gross can be contacted at: mkgross2@ncsu.edu The Greeks were the first to combine nouns and verbs to create abstract concepts...

...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...

..., internal conflict and intentional concealment of evidence from those in power, play a distinctive role. The question is how do families deal with these barriers? This study aims to explore and identify the information-seeking process and practices of those searching for the forcefully...

... (that consisted of multiple rounds of iterative, inductive coding). Findings The findings identify the component parts of bouncing ideas, which include three component in-formation activities – information seeking, information sharing and information creation – and are undertaken as cooperative information...

... Information encountering Serendipitous information discovery Human information behavior Information seeking Systematic literature review There is a growing trend that individuals incidentally discover and obtain interesting and useful information rather than actively seek for it in research...

... an information-rich community of practice engages with information, solves problems, build social connections and creates new content. Qualitative research Information seeking Information behavior Lawyers Information practices Content creation Past research has extensively investigated information...

..., barriers and constraints to information seeking are found in information models by Dervin (2005) and Wilson (1997 ; revisited in 2016), while barriers to effective dissemination of learning at all levels in an organisation are considered in several discussions on promoting effective organisational...

... about human information behaviour in the context of serious leisure. Various forms of information activities in this context have been identified and categorised to depict common patterns of information seeking, sharing, using and producing. The project adopted a qualitative approach...

...Gerd Berget; Andrew MacFarlane; Nils Pharo Purpose A substantial number of models have been developed over the years, with the purpose of describing the information seeking and searching of people in various user groups and contexts. Several models have been frequently applied in user studies...

... 14 01 2020 17 03 2020 19 03 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Expert power Gatekeeping Information seeking Information sharing Power In studies on human information behaviour (HIB), researchers have...

... consistency and thereby promoting deeper, more unified theoretical development. Information encountering Serendipity Passive information acquisition Information behavior Information seeking Models The phenomenon of serendipity has attracted much interest in scientific, management...

... of this work is that it provides a detailed insight into a topic that has been neglected in previous studies: that of the process of job search networking as an information behaviour. Social networks Information seeking Networks Job search Career information Networking behaviours Sustained...

...Isto Huvila Information science research has begun to broaden its traditional focus on information seeking to cover other modes of acquiring information. The purpose of this paper is to move forward on this trajectory and to present a framework for explicating how in addition to being sought...

... is to investigate how four international students at a Danish university cope with their study-related and everyday information needs, behaviorally as well as affectively, and how their information seeking blends with their cross-cultural adaptation. Each of the four participants contributed ten diaries...

... information are viewed as situationally relevant at different stages of information-seeking processes among music students. Empirical data of the present longitudinal study were collected in two phases by utilizing questionnaire and interview methods. Informants comprised of 14 university-level music...