Social navigation is a form of collaborative information behaviour. It is a term favoured by the HCI community and emphasizes, in my view, being guided in one's searches either directly (e.g. chat, collaborative browsing) or indirectly (e.g. trails) by others - with an emphasis on the interaction that occurs. Not all fields emphasize the interaction aspect of collaborative information behaviour. Other fields that explore the same phenomenon (e.g. information science, information retrieval, CSCW) prefer to emphasise the information handling or search and retrieval aspects of collaborative information behaviour - or the seeking, retrieval and use of information in support of pre-specified work tasks. Jonathan Quoting Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca>:
On 1-Dec-08, at 5:15 AM, Jonathan Foster wrote:
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Introduction Collaborative information behavior can be broadly defined as the study of the behaviors, practices, and systems that enable people to collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information. In recent years, it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to engage in such collaborative information behavior.
How is this different from social navigation of ICT's?
Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2010). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
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