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Theories of Information Behavior

Author: Karen E. Fisher Sanda Erdelez Lynne E. F. Mckechnie

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ISBN 9788170005278
Year of Publication 2008
Binding HardBound
Pages
Edition
Language English
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Theories of Information Behavior presents authoritative overviews of more
than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share,
and use information in different contexts. a practical and  readable
reference to both well-established and newly proposed theories of information
behavior, the book includes contributions from 85 scholars from ten countries.
Each theory description covers origins, propositions, methodological
implications, usage, links to related conceptual frameworks, and listings of
authoritative primary and secondary references. The introductory chapters
explain key concepts, theory-method connection, and the process of theory
development.



List of Figures


List of Table


Acknowledgments


Preface


Chapter 1         An Introduction to
Metatheories, Theories, and Models----------------Marcia J. Bates


Chapter 2           What
Methodology Does to Theory: Sense-Making Methodology as Exemplar----------Brenda
Dervin


Chapter 3           
Evolution in Information Behavior Modeling Wilson's Model----------T. D. Wilson


The Theories


    1.    Affective Load-------------Diane Nahl


    2.    Anomalous State of
Knowledge----------Nicholas J. Belkin


    3.    Archival
Intelligence-------------------Elizabeth Yakel


    4.    Bandura's Social
Cognition-------------Makiko Miwa


    5.    Berrypicking----------------- Marcia
J.  Bates


    6.    Big6 Skill for Information
Literacy-------------Carrie A. Lowe and Michael B. Eisenberg


    7.    Chang's Browsing
--------------------Shan-Ju L. Chang


    8.    Chatman's Information
Poverty-----------Julie Hersberger


    9.    Chatman's Life in the
Round--------------Crystal Fulton


    10    Cognitive Authority-----------Soo
Young Rieh


    11.    Cognitive Work
Analysis--------------Raya Fidel and Annelise Mark Pejtersen


    12.    Collective Action
Dilemma-----------Marc Smith and Howard T. Welser


    13.    Communities Action
--------------Gerald Benoit


    14.     Communities of
Practice---------------Elisabeth Devies


    15.    Cultural Models of Hall and Hofstede--------------------Anita
Komlodi


    16.    Dervin's
Sense-Making-------------------Tonyia J. Tidline


    17.    Diffusion Theory -------------Darian
lajoie-Paquette


    18.    The Domain Analytic Approach to
Scholars' Information Practices----------------Sanna Talija


    19.    Ecological Theory of Human
Information Behavior-----------Kirsty Williamson


    20.    Elicitation as Micro-Level
Information Seeking---------------Mei-Mei Wu


    21.    Ellis's Model of Information Seeking
Behavior---------------David Ellis


    22.    Everyday Life Information
Seeking---------------------Reijo Savolainen


    23.    Face
Threat------------------------------------Lorri Mon


    24.    Flow Theory
------------------------Charles Naumer


    25.    General Model of the Information
Seeking of Professionals--------------------Gloria j. Leckie


    26.    The Imposed Query
-----------------------------------Melissa Gross


    27.    Information acquiring  and
Sharing-------------------------Kevin Rioux


    28.    Information Activities in Work
Tasks-----------------------------Katriina Bystrom


    29.     Information Encountering
------------------------------Sanda Erdelez


    30.    Information Grounds
--------------------------Karen E. Fisher


    31.    Information
Horizons------------------------Diane H. Sonnenwald


    32.    Information Intents.
---------------------------Ross J. Todd


    33.     Information Interchange
----------------------------Rita Marcella and Graeme Baxter


    34.    Institutional Ethnography
---------------------------------Roz Stooke


    35.    Integrative Framework for
Information seeking and Interactive Information Retrieval--------Pamela j.
McKenzie


    36.     Interpretative Repertoires
------------------------Pamela J. McKenzie


    37.    Krikelas's Model of Information
Seeking---------------------Jean Henefer and Crystal Fulton


    38.     Kuhlthau's Information Search
Process---------------------Carol Collier Kuhlthau


    39.    Library Anxiety
----------------------------------Patricia  Katopol


    40    Monitoring and
Blunting------------------Lynda M. Baker


    41.    Motivational Factors for Interface
Design------------------------CarolynWatters and Jack Duffy


    42    Network Gate
keeping-----------------------------------------Karine Barzilai-Nahon


    43    Nonlinear Information Seeking
-----------------------Allen foster


    44.    Optimal
Foraging--------------------------Jo Ann Jacoby


    45    Organizational Sense Making and
Information Use --------------Anu Mac Intosh-Murray


    46.    The PAIN
Hypothesis----------------------------------Harry Bruce


    47    Perspectives on the Tasks in which
Information Behaviors Are Embedded-----------Barbara M. Wilde much           
and Anthony Hughes


      48.    Phenomenography------------------------------Louise
Limberg


    49.    Practice of Everyday
Life----------------------------Paulette Rothbauer


    50.    Principle of Least Effort
-------------------------Donald O. Case


    51.    Professions and Occupational
Identities-----------------------Olof Sundin and Jenny hedman


    52.    Reader Response Theory
---------------------------------Eliza T. Dresang


    53.    Reader Response
Theory-------------------------------Catherine Sheldrick Ross


    54.    Rounding and Dissonant
Grounds---------------------Paul Solomon


    55.    Serious Leisure----------------Jenna
Hartel


    56.    Small- World Network
Exploration---------------Lennart Bjorneborn


    57.    Nan Lin's Theory of Social
Capital-------------------Catherine A. Johnson


    58.    The Social constructionist Viewpoint
on Information Practices


    59.     Social
Positioning-------------------Lisa M. Given


    60    The Socio-Cognitive Theory of Users
Situated in Specific Contexts and Domains---------------Birger Hjorland


    61.    Strength of Weak
Ties---------------------Christopher M. Dixon


    62.    Symbolic
Violence-------------------------Steven Joyce


    63.    Taylor's Information Use
Environments---------------Ruth A. Palmquist


    64.    Taylor's Question
-Negotiation-------------------Phillip M. Edwards


    65.    Transtheoretical Model of the Health
Behavior Change-------------C. Nadine wathen and Roma M. Harris


    66.     Value Sensitive
Design--------------------------Batya Friedman and Nathan G. Freier


    67.     Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal
Development------------------------Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie


    68.    Web Information Behaviors of
Organizational Workers-------------------Brian Detlor


    69.    Willingness to
Return----------------------------------Tammara Combs Turner and Joan C.Durrance


    70.    Women' Ways of
Knowing------------------------Heidi Julien


    71.    Work Task Information -Seeking and
Retrieval Processes---------------------Preben Hansen


    72.     World Wide Web Information
Seeking------------------------Don Turnbull


About the Editors


Index


 

Dr. Karen E. Fisher (nee Pettigrew) is an associate professor at the
Information School of the University of Washington, USA, where she  teaches
information behavior, qualitative research methods, community analysis, and
outcome-based evaluation. Her BA   (English and Russian, 1989) is from
Memorial University  of Newfoundland, and her MLIS (1991) and PhD in
library and information science (1998)  from the University of Western
Ontario.Her research addresses  information behavior in everyday contexts
(IBEC) . The author of more than  50 articles and books, her current
research in funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the
National Science Foundation. She received the 1995 ALISE Jane Anne Hannigan
Award, the 1999 ALISE Research Award, and the 2005 ALA Jesse H. Shera Award for
Distinguished Published Research. She is a Member of several editorial boards as
well as the Permanent Program Committee of the Information Seeking in Context
(ISIC) Conference series, and is the 2004----05 chair of ASIST SIG USE. For more
information about Dr. Fisher, visit ibec. ischool.washington. edu.


Dr. Sanda Erdelez is an associate professor at the School of Information
Science and Learning Technologies at the university of  Missouri-Columbia,
USA where she directs the Information  Experience Laboratory (http: //ielab.coe.missouri.edu/)
for a study of information behavior in an electronic environment. Dr. Erdelez
teaches human information behavior, research methods, business information
resources, and online information searching. She obtained LLB (1982) and LLM
(1986) from University of Osijek, Croatia;  and PhD in Information Transfer
(1995)  from Syracuse University, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar.
Dr. Erdelez's research in accidental aspects of information behavior, especially
information encountering (www.infoencountering.com), has been funded by SBC
Communication and Dell Inc. She is the 2003---2004 chair of ASIST SIG USE.    


Dr. Lynne McKechnie is associate dean and an associate professor at the
Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario in
London, Ontario, Canada where she teaches library services and literature for
children and young adults, research methods, reference, and everyday life
information behavior. She holds a BA )Anthropology, 1972) from the University of
Manitoba, an  MLS (1979) from the University of Toronto and A PhD (LIS
1996) from the University of Western Ontario. She has been the recipient of
ALA's Baber Research Award (2003) ALISE Research Grant (1999), and a grant from
the social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1998--2002). Dr
McKechnie  has served as elected Treasurer of ALA's Library Research Round
Table and is currently the editor of the Canadian Journal of Information and
library Science and chair of the ALISE Research Committee.  



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