Filtering and withdrawing: Strategies for coping with information overload in everyday contexts

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 611-621

  Savolainen, Reijo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Information overload; Information seeking

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES;

FILTERING STRATEGY; INFORMATION OVERLOAD; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SOURCES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34748894228     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506077418     Document Type: Article

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