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This unique book presents authoritative overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share, and use information in different contexts. A practical and readable reference to both well-established and newly proposed theories of information behavior, the book includes contributions from 85 scholars from 10 countries. Each theory description covers origins, propositions, methodological implications, usage, links to related c… More >>
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Rating: 5 / 5
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My concerns with the book are related to “what is theory?” and “what are the important theories?”.
First, the “what is theory?”. To say that some of the positions presented in each chapter are theories
is really pushing the label of theory. Certainly, many of the paradigms do not measure up to the
definition of theory that the editors of the book state in the preface or which are in the leading chapter
of section one.
Rating: 3 / 5