Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour
It is an almost universal finding in studies investigating human information behaviour that people choose other people as their preferred source of information. An explanation for the use of people as information sources is that they are easier to approach than more formal sources and therefore are...
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Main Author: | Catherine A. Johnson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Borås
2004-01-01
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Series: | Information Research: An International Electronic Journal |
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Online Access: | http://informationr.net/ir/10-1/paper201.html |
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