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Accidental discovery of information on the user-defined Social Web: A mixed-method study.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Accidental discovery of information on the user-defined Social Web: A mixed-method study./
Author:	Lu, Chi-Jung.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2012,
Description:	192 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-01A(E).
Subject:	Library science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3529549
ISBN:	9781267661227

Accidental discovery of information on the user-defined Social Web: A mixed-method study.
Lu, Chi-Jung.

Accidental discovery of information on the user-defined Social Web: A mixed-method study. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2012 - 192 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2012.

Frequently interacting with other people or working in an information-rich environment can foster the accidental discovery of information (ADI) (Erdelez, 2000; McCay-Peet & Toms, 2010). With the increasing adoption of social web technologies, online user-participation communities and user-generated content have provided users the potential for ADI. However, ADI on the Social Web has been under-examined in the literature of library and information science. This gap needs to be addressed in order to get a more complete picture of human information behavior.

ISBN: 9781267661227Subjects--Topical Terms:

539284
Library science.

Accidental discovery of information on the user-defined Social Web: A mixed-method study.
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520 $a Frequently interacting with other people or working in an information-rich environment can foster the accidental discovery of information (ADI) (Erdelez, 2000; McCay-Peet & Toms, 2010). With the increasing adoption of social web technologies, online user-participation communities and user-generated content have provided users the potential for ADI. However, ADI on the Social Web has been under-examined in the literature of library and information science. This gap needs to be addressed in order to get a more complete picture of human information behavior.
520 $a The objectives of this dissertation were to develop the propositions that describe and explain ADI behaviors among individual users of web-based social tools. Two research questions were addressed: (1) What are the characteristics of ADI on the Social Web? (2) What are the users' perceptions about ADI on the Social Web?
520 $a This dissertation used a sequential mixed-method research design involving three data collection methods: a survey, and follow-up logs, and interviews. The sample includes 45 participants in an academic environment. Among the survey participants, a purposeful sample of 13 individuals completed follow-up incident logs and in-depth interviews. Qualitative analysis with Stata 12/MP (StataCorp, 2011) and qualitative analysis with ATLAS.ti v.6 (http://www.atlasti.com/) were performed on the data. The results presented include descriptive statistics and thematic findings.
520 $a The important findings include: (1) ADI on the Social Web has many unique characteristics that can be identified within the six elements of user, motivation, context, information behavior, information, and information need; (2) participating users considered the Social Web as a useful environment for ADI, and they even used some self-developed strategies to facilitate ADI; (3) prior experience and anticipation of ADI can be the motivations to use particular social tools; (4) social tools can serve as information grounds where users gather together and form relations, precipitating conditions which foster ADI; (5) users considered ADI on the Social Web as supplementary to their overall information acquisition; the unexpected information that they found was most beneficial for addressing long-term information needs. The findings of this study expand on existing information behavior theories and offer practical insights for the design of information services and library instruction.
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