...Hyunsoo Yoon; Sungha Moon; Sanghee Oh Purpose This study investigates how adult learners participating in lifelong learning (LLL) programs engage in information seeking, use and sharing as part of their everyday lives, and examines how these practices are shaped by motivations and contextual...

...Wu Anqi; Azlan Arina Anis; Mohamad Emma; Zhang Chenglin; Ma Yilian; Qi Yihan; Li Yunyao Purpose The purpose of this review is to systematically address which emotions, how they affect motivation and what strategies regulate information behavior in problem-solving contexts. Design/methodology...

... behaviour of many actors in different situations is known, but what do we know about how we behave in relation to misinformation? Our aim is to discover what reasons motivate people to create and disseminate misinformation and to propose a theoretical framework for the further exploration of the phenomenon...

...Shijie Song; Yuxiang Chris Zhao; Xinlin Yao; Zhichao Ba; Qinghua Zhu Purpose Hedonic social applications have been increasingly popular among health information consumers. However, it remains unclear what motivates consumers to adopt health information in hedonic applications when they have...

...Reijo Savolainen Purpose The purpose of this article is to elaborate the picture of the motivators for information seeking by comparing the conceptualizations of task‐based information needs and expectancy‐value theories. Design/methodology/approach The article is a conceptual analysis...