The role of information avoidance in everyday-life information behaviors

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Narayan, Bhuva ^a   Case, Donald O ^b   Edwards, Sylvia L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diary study; Information avoidance; Information behavior; Information seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861421205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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