Google Generation II: Web behaviour experiments with the BBC

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-45

  Nicholas, David ^a   Rowlands, Ian ^a   Clark, David ^a   Williams, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age groups; Group behaviour; Information media; Search engines; Television; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; COGNITIVE MEASUREMENT; CUT-AND-PASTE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GROUP BEHAVIOUR; INFORMATION MEDIA; INFORMATION SEEKING; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; WORKING MEMORIES;

EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTITASKING; SEARCH ENGINES; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78651092951     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012531111103768     Document Type: Article

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