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No such thing as society? On the individuality of information behavior

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  • David Bawden
  • Lyn Robinson

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This opinion piece considers the relative importance of individual and social factors in determining information behavior. It concludes that individual factors are more central and fundamental, although they may certainly be qualified by social and cultural factors and even though there are good reasons for studying and analyzing information behavior in terms of social groups. More studies of interesting emergent factors and behaviors in social settings would be valuable.

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  • David Bawden & Lyn Robinson, 2013. "No such thing as society? On the individuality of information behavior," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(12), pages 2587-2590, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:64:y:2013:i:12:p:2587-2590
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.22971
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    1. Christopher P. Lueg, 2015. "The missing link: Information behavior research and its estranged relationship with embodiment," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 66(12), pages 2704-2707, December.
    2. Lauri Wessel & Martin Gersch & Erik Harloff, 2017. "Talking Past Each Other," Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Springer;Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), vol. 59(1), pages 23-40, February.

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