Users' meaning in interpersonal and technology mediated information need specification

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 81-93

  Yoon, Kyunghye ^a   Nilan, Michael S ^b  

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

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Information seeking; Topic and comment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961218340     PISSN: 18331882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v05i09/51877     Document Type: Article

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