Re-appraising information seeking behaviour in a digital environment: Bouncers, checkers, returnees and the like

@article{citeulike:945, abstract = {Collating data from a number of log and questionnaire studies conducted largely into the use of a range of consumer health digital information platforms, Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (Ciber) researchers describe some new thoughts on characterising (and naming) information seeking behaviour in the digital environment, and in so doing, suggest a new typology of digital users. The characteristic behaviour found is one of bouncing in which users seldom penetrate a site to any depth, tend to visit a number of sites for any given information need and seldom return to sites they once visited. They tend to \"feed\" for information horizontally, and whether they search a site of not depends heavily on \"digital visibility\", which in turn creates all the conditions for \"bouncing\". The question whether this type of information seeking represents a form of \"dumbing down or up\", and what it all means for publishers, librarians and information providers, who might be working on other, possible outdated usage paradigms, is discussed.}, author = {Nicholas and David and Huntington and Paul and Williams and Peter and Dobrowolski and Tom}, citeulike-article-id = {945}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00220410410516635}, issn = {0022-0418}, journal = {Journal of Documentation}, keywords = {information\_seeking\_behavior}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {24--43}, posted-at = {2005-10-17 20:28:20}, priority = {3}, publisher = {Emerald Group Publishing Limited}, title = {Re-appraising information seeking behaviour in a digital environment: Bouncers, checkers, returnees and the like}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00220410410516635}, volume = {60}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:945 L3 - citeulike-article-id:945 TI - Re-appraising information seeking behaviour in a digital environment: Bouncers, checkers, returnees and the like JF - Journal of Documentation VL - 60 IS - 1 SP - 24 EP - 43 PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SN - 0022-0418 N2 - Collating data from a number of log and questionnaire studies conducted largely into the use of a range of consumer health digital information platforms, Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (Ciber) researchers describe some new thoughts on characterising (and naming) information seeking behaviour in the digital environment, and in so doing, suggest a new typology of digital users. The characteristic behaviour found is one of bouncing in which users seldom penetrate a site to any depth, tend to visit a number of sites for any given information need and seldom return to sites they once visited. They tend to "feed" for information horizontally, and whether they search a site of not depends heavily on "digital visibility", which in turn creates all the conditions for "bouncing". The question whether this type of information seeking represents a form of "dumbing down or up", and what it all means for publishers, librarians and information providers, who might be working on other, possible outdated usage paradigms, is discussed. KW - information_seeking_behavior AU - Nicholas AU - David AU - Huntington AU - Paul AU - Williams AU - Peter AU - Dobrowolski AU - Tom PY - 2004/01/30/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00220410410516635 ER -