Sharing Information begets Information

Information asymmetry and information sharing

Although much digital divide research focuses on access to technology, another cause of the divide is the lack of information awareness that we call information asymmetry. Information asymmetry often stems from inadequate information sharing and can result in negative consequences for both the information poor and the information rich. Information asymmetry has been insufficiently studied as a ...

Information Sharing

Investigating the Impact of Information Literacy and Information Communication Technologies on Knowledge Sharing among Public Library Librarians

Purpose. Information literacy and information communication technologies are the determining factors in today's ever-changing conditions. In this study, the relationship between information literacy and knowledge sharing with the mediating role of information communication technologies among public library staff has been studied to determine the role of these two factors in knowledge sharing by...

Weak Information Structures for Community Information Sharing

We discuss the requirements for community information sharing. We then propose the weak information structures to integrate heterogeneous information such as static information (e.g. local sites information) and dynamic information created in word-of-mouth communication. The weak information structures connect various information media without de ning the semantics rigorously. By leaving the in...

Weak Information Structure for Human Information Sharing

This paper demonstrates the e ectiveness of the weak information structure for human information sharing. The weak information structure is an information representation which connects various information media without de ning the semantics rigorously. By leaving the interpretation of the semantics to tacit human background knowledge, it becomes compact and robust. To investigate how e ective t...