Collaborative information behavior user engagement and communication sharing /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Foster, Jonathan, 1965-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2010.
• Subjects: Information behavior.; Group work in research.; Virtual work teams.; Patient-doctor collaboration in therapy and research; The role of peer talk in collaborative information behavior; Students teaching students using video podcasts; Collaborative information behavior in completely online groups; Challenges of collaborative data processing; Designs for systems to support collaborative information behavior; Cross-disciplinary approaches to a CMC study; Social practices of collaborative informing in the midwifery clinic; How the poor learn, share, and experiment on mobile phones; Cultivating the value of networked individuals; Obstacles to content creation in a professional online community
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (246 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9781615207985 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Although it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to regularly collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information, a definitive work on the behaviors, practices, and systems that enable this collaborative information behavior has been lacking. This book fulfills that urgent demand by presenting current research and practices in the area of collaborative information behavior. Providing empirical research findings, theoretical frameworks, and models relevant to the myriad aspects of collaborative information behavior, the book is an ambitious and important work for professionals, educators and researchers in the fields of information science, knowledge management, human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work.