A study of interpersonal information seeking: The role of topic and comment in the articulation of certainty and uncertainty of information need

Information Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Yoon, Kyunghye ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

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EID: 33846544383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13681613     Source Type: Journal    
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