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Information behaviour: an inter-disciplinary perspective
Tom Wilson
- pp 39-50
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The article was published on 1997-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical).read more
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A model of information practices in accounts of everyday‐life information seeking
TL;DR: The model is derived from a constructionist discourse analysis of individuals’ accounts of everyday life information seeking and proposes that a focus on the social concept of information practices is more appropriate to everydaylife information seeking than the psychological concept of Information behaviour.
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Resist, comply or workaround? An examination of different facets of user engagement with information systems
Elaine Ferneley,Polly Sobreperez +1 more
TL;DR: A composite model of resistance/workaround derived from two case study sites is developed, finding four key antecedent conditions derived from both positive and negative resistance rationales and identifying associations and links to various resultant workaround behaviours.
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Waiting for chiropody: contextual results from an ethnographic study of the information behaviour among attendees at community clinics
TL;DR: Findings from a recent field study in which ethnographic methods and social network theory are used to investigate the flow of human services information among nurses, the elderly and other individuals at community-based foot clinics are illustrated.
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Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour
TL;DR: It is concluded that inner traits interact with contextual factors in their final impact on information behaviour, and that information behaviour could be connected to all the personality dimensions tested in the study.