Accessing and browsing information and communication

Accessing and browsing information and communication / Ronald E. Rice, Maureen McCreadie, and Shan-Ju L. Chang.

This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user's entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rice, Ronald E.
Other Authors: McCreadie, Maureen, Chang, Shan-Ju L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
©2001
Subjects:
Information retrieval.
Research.
Communication in information science.
Human information processing.
research (function)
information retrieval.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Communication in information science
Human information processing
Information retrieval
Research
Information storage and retrieval.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. The importance of accessing and browsing information and communication
  • I. Accessing information and communication
  • 2. Perspectives on access in six research literatures
  • 3. Common concepts across research literatures
  • 4. Unique aspects across research literature, and a preliminary framework of access
  • 5. A research approach : access
  • 6. Results : testing the framework of access
  • 7. Results : refining the framework of access
  • 8. Summary and Implications of the Framework of Access
  • II. Browsing information and communication
  • 9. Perspectives on browsing in six research literatures
  • 10. A preliminary framework of browsing
  • 11. A research approach : browsing
  • 12. Results : testing the framework of browsing
  • 13. Results : motivating themes and patterns of browsing
  • 14. Results : a refined framework of browsing
  • 15. Future research and implications for the frameworks of accessing and browsing.

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