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- Offers a concise introduction to a new field concerned with seeking and acquiring information from social spaces on the Internet
- Intertwines general information research with social networking and other collaborative aspects of information seeking activities
- Combines theoretical work with practical considerations and evaluation techniques
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Information Retrieval Series (INRE, volume 38)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundation
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Front Matter
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Social Dimension of Information Seeking
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Front Matter
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Collaborative Dimension of Information Seeking
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Front Matter
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Current State and Future Directions
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume summarizes the author’s work on social information seeking (SIS), and at the same time serves as an introduction to the topic. Sometimes also referred to as social search or social information retrieval, this is a relatively new area of study concerned with the seeking and acquiring of information from social spaces on the Internet. It involves studying situations, motivations, and methods involved in seeking and sharing of information in participatory online social sites, such as Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, and Twitter, as well as building systems for supporting such activities.
The first part of the book introduces various foundational concepts, including information seeking, social media, and social networking. As such it provides the necessary basis to then discuss how those aspects could intertwine in different ways to create methods, tools, and opportunities for supporting and leveraging SIS. Next, Part II discusses the social dimension and primarily examines the online question-answering activity. Part III then emphasizes the collaborative aspect of information seeking, and examines what happens when social and collaborative dimensions are considered together. Lastly, Part IV provides a synthesis by consolidating methods, systems, and evaluation techniques related to social and collaborative information seeking. The book is completed by a list of challenges and opportunities for both theoretical and practical SIS work.
The book is intended mainly for researchers and graduate students looking for an introduction to this new field, as well as developers and system designers interested in building interactive information retrieval systems or social/community-driven interfaces.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Chirag Shah
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Information Seeking
Book Subtitle: Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd
Authors: Chirag Shah
Series Title: The Information Retrieval Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56756-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56755-6Published: 07 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85993-4Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56756-3Published: 28 June 2017
Series ISSN: 1871-7500
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6836
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 177
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Information Storage and Retrieval, Computational Social Sciences, Social Media, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences