Information seeking in context   Edited by Pertti Vakkari, Reijo Savolainen and Brenda Dervin   ISBN 0 947568 71 9 1997 £45.00/US$85.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   BASIC ISSUES OF INFORMATION NEEDS, SEEKING AND USE   Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast Brenda Dervin   Information behaviour: an inter-disciplinary perspective Tom Wilson     THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES   Making sense of semiotics: privileging respondents in revealing contextual geographic syntactic and semantic codes Myke Gluck   Constituting 'information' and 'user' as research objects: a theory of knowledge formations as an alternative to the information man - theory Sanna Talja   A social constructionist approach to the study of information use as discursive action Kimmo Tuominen and Reijo Savolainen     MODELING INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR   A general model of the information seeking of professionals: role theory through the back door? Gloria J. Leckie and Karen E. Pettigrew   Information needs: a person-in-situation approach Bruce Allen     JOB-RELATED INFORMATION NEEDS, SEEKING AND USE   Municipal administrators at work - information needs and seeking (IN&S) in relation to task complexity: a case study amongst municipal officials Katriina Byström   Investigating the management information needs of heads of academic departments in universities in the United Kingdom: a critical success factors approach Brendan Loughridge   Effective information systems for high-performing self-managed teams Deborah Manning Barnes, Amanda H. Spink and Dale E. Yeatts   Collaboration during the design process: a case study of communication, information behaviour, and project performance Diane H. Sonnenwald and Leah A. Lievrouw   Classifications of tasks, steps, and information-related behaviors of individuals on project teams Jacqueline Algon   Information seeking behaviour and development of information systems: a contextual view Anders Malmsjö   Information-seeking in an advanced IT culture: a case study Christine Barry   Manager's use of information: a grounded theory approach Joyce Kirk   The influence of uncertainty on the information seeking behaviour of a securities analyst Carol C. Kuhlthau   Information use of learning purposes Louise Limberg   Information behaviour in sense making: a three-year case study of work planning Paul Solomon   User's information needs at different stages of a research project: a cognitive view Peiling Wang   A user oriented view of the Internet as information infrastructure Harry Bruce     EVERYDAY LIFE INFORMATION SEEKING   The information needs and information-seeking behaviour of older adults: an Australian study Kirsty Williamson   Information utilisation: a cognitive analysis of how girls utilise drug information based on Brookes' fundamental equation (K(S) + D = K(S=DS) Ross J. Todd   How career information helps adolescents' decision-making Heidi E. Julien   The appropriation of home information systems in Scottish households Elisabeth Davenport, Martin Higgins and Ian Somerville   Information encountering: a conceptual framework for accidental information discovery Sanda Erdelez   Unconscious cognition: the elicitation of deeply embedded information needs E. Glynn Harmon and Elissa R. Ballesteros   Citizenship information in Norway, Germany, and from the European Commission: the need and its delivery Gerhard Schwabe   CONCLUSION   Information seeking in context: a challenging metatheory Pertti Vakkari