Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human
life, however our knowledge and understanding of it is incomplete
and underdeveloped scientifically. Research on the topic is largely
contemporary in focus and has generally not incorporated results
from other disciplines.
In this monograph Spink provides a new understanding of
information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories
and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition. In her
presentation, she argues that information behavior is an important
instinctive sociocognitive ability that can only be fully
understood with a highly interdisciplinary approach. The leitmotivs
of her examination are three important research questions: First,
what is the evolutionary, biological and developmental nature of
information behavior? Second, what is the role of instinct versus
environment in shaping information behavior? And, third, how have
information behavior capabilities evolved and developed over
time?
Written for researchers in information science as well as social
and cognitive sciences, Spink's controversial text lays the
foundation for a new interdisciplinary theoretical perspective on
information behavior that will not only provide a more holistic
framework for this field but will also impact those sciences, and
thus also open up many new research directions.
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