[Air-L] Collaborative Information Behavior - Final Call for Chapters

[Jonathan Foster]

Social navigation is a form of collaborative information behaviour. It is
a term favoured by the HCI community and emphasizes, in my view, being
guided in one's searches either directly (e.g. chat, collaborative browsing) or
indirectly (e.g. trails) by others - with an emphasis on the interaction that
occurs. Not all fields emphasize the interaction aspect of collaborative
information behaviour. Other fields that explore the same phenomenon (e.g.
information science, information retrieval, CSCW) prefer to emphasise the
information handling or search and retrieval aspects of collaborative
information behaviour - or the seeking, retrieval and use of information in
support of pre-specified work tasks.

Jonathan


Quoting Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>:

> 
> 
> On 1-Dec-08, at 5:15 AM, Jonathan Foster wrote:
> 
> > **APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS**
> >
> >
> > FINAL CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
> > Proposal Submission Deadline: January 15, 2009
> > Collaborative Information Behavior: User Engagement and  
> > Communication Sharing
> > A book edited by Dr. Jonathan Foster
> > University of Sheffield, UK
> > http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=514
> >
> > Introduction
> > Collaborative information behavior can be broadly defined as the  
> > study of the
> > behaviors, practices, and systems that enable people to collaborate  
> > during the
> > seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information. In recent  
> > years, it has
> > become commonplace for users and organizations alike to engage in such
> > collaborative information behavior.
> 
> How is this different from social navigation of ICT's?
> 
> 
> Peter Timusk,
> B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
> Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2010).
> just trying to stay linear.
> Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
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Dr. Jonathan Foster
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield
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