Information and higher things in life: Addressing the pleasurable and the profound in information science

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1131-1147

  Kari, Jarkko ^a   Hartel, Jenna ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION PHENOMENA; INFORMATION PROCESSES;

PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34250213665     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20585     Document Type: Review

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