The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes
significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century …

The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories
of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world …

Rigorous systematic literature searches are often described as complex, error-prone and
time-consuming because of a prevailing lack of adequate technological assistance …

Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in
contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy …

Social media enjoy a phenomenal success in terms of adoption and usage levels. They
cause paradigm shifts on how people connect and communicate with each other, on how …

This article proposes a theory of information need for information retrieval (IR). Information
need traditionally denotes the start state for someone seeking information, which includes …

A conceptual analysis derived from the literature on sociocultural barriers to information
seeking focuses on the features of such barriers and their impact on information seeking in …

The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of
a need or gap in understanding, to the search for information from one or more sources to fill …

Code search methods, especially those that allow programmers to raise queries in a natural
language, plays an important role in software development. It helps to improve …

As a mainstream advertising channel, Search Engine Advertising (SEA) has a huge
business impact and attracts a plethora of attention from both academia and industry. One …