Delineating the boundary of "Context" in information behavior: Towards a contextual identity framework

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 46, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Agarwal, Naresh Kumar ^a   Xu, Yunjie Calvin ^a   Poo, Danny C C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84861428917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2009.1450460252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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