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Fake News in Social Media: Bad Algorithms or Biased Users?
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2019 Although fake news has been present in human history at any time, nowadays, with social media, deceptive information has a stronger effect on society than before.
Franziska Zimmer +3 more
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Information Avoidance: a Systematic Review
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2021 The aim of this study is to understand the concept of information avoidance in terms of origin, effective factors, behaviors, areas of the previous studies, and research gaps.
Mahsa Torabi, Mahdieh Mirzabeigi
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An information behavior theory of transitions [PDF]
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2021 AbstractThis paper proposes a theory of life transitions focused on information behavior. Through a process of meta‐ethnography, the paper transforms a series of influential theories and models into a theory of transitions for use in Information Science. This paper characterizes the psychological processes involved in transitions as consisting of three
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Voting Behavior and Information Aggregation in Elections With Private Information [PDF]
Econometrica, 1997 Summary: We analyze two-candidate elections in which voters are uncertain about the realization of a state variable that affects the utility of all voters. Each voter has noisy private information about the state variable. We show that the fraction of voters whose vote depends on their private information goes to zero as the size of the electorate goes
Timothy Feddersen, Wolfgang Pesendorfer
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Getting creative in everyday life: Investigating arts and crafts hobbyists' information behavior [PDF]
, 2019 While there has been increasing interest in how creative professionals find information to drive creative outputs, previous information behavior research has largely ignored how arts and crafts hobbyists look for information sources in their everyday ...
Buchanan, G. +4 more
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Information seeking behavior of cosplayers
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2020 AbstractThis qualitative study explores the information seeking behavior of cosplayers (i.e., individuals who create costumes from films, video games, anime, etc.). Interviewed participants outlined information practices including search strategy development, locating curated resources within a Facebook group, collaboration, and strategies for ...
Emily Vardell +2 more
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Information behavior realities in organizations [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2006 AbstractThis short paper provides discussion on the influencing effect of information behavior in organizations, as well as the forces which influence information behavior itself. The research goal is to offer insight on the nature of information behavior in organizations. To do so, the authors present findings from their quantitative analysis of a Web‐
Brian Detlor +3 more
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Information Research: An International Electronic JournalIntroduction. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools garner more attention every day, questions have arisen regarding their possible negative impacts in future job markets.
Mónica Colón-Aguirre, Kawanna Bright
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Could Data Broker Information Threaten Physician Prescribing and Professional Behavior? [PDF]
, 2015 Privacy is threatened by the extent of data collected and sold by consumer data brokers. Physicians, as individual consumers, leave a ‘data trail’ in the offline (e.g. through traditional shopping) and online worlds (e.g. through online purchases and use
Huesch, Marco D. +2 more
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Social referencing in the domestic horse [PDF]
, 2020 Dogs and cats use human emotional information directed to an unfamiliar situation to guide their behavior, known as social referencing. It is not clear whether other domestic species show similar socio-cognitive abilities in interacting with humans.
Nawroth , C., Schrimpf, A., Single , M.
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