Everyday serendipity as described in social media

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rubin, Victoria L ^a   Burkell, Jacquelyn ^a   Quan Haase, Anabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Everyday information behavior; Research methods; Serendipity; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053019732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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