Reijo Savolainen Academic Capital and Information Seeking Career

Approaching the affective factors of information seeking: the viewpoint of the information search process model

Relationships between information seeking and context: A qualitative study of Internet searching and the goals of personal development

Little research has explored how exactly information processes relate to their context. Context is defined as all those things which are not an inherent part of information phenomena, but which nevertheless bear some relation to these. This article addresses the issue by discussing empirical findings from a study on Internet searching and personal development. The purpose of the article is to c...

"Isms" in information science: constructivism, collectivism and constructionism

Purpose – Describes the basic premises of three metatheories that represent important or emerging perspectives on information seeking, retrieval and knowledge formation in information science: constructivism, collectivism, and constructionism. Design/methodology/approach – Presents a literature-based conceptual analysis. Pinpoints the differences between the positions in their conceptions of la...

Elaborating the conceptual space of information-seeking phenomena

Introduction. The article contributes to conceptual studies of information behaviour research by examining the conceptualisations of information seeking and related terms such as information search and browsing. Method. The study builds on Bates' integrated model of information seeking and searching, originally presented in 2002. The model was slightly elaborated, resulting in the identificatio...

Spatial factors as contextual qualifiers of information seeking

Introduction. This paper investigates the ways in which spatial factors have been approached in information seeking studies. The main attention was focused on studies discussing information seeking on the level of source selection and use. Method. Conceptual analysis of about 100 articles and books thematizing spatial issues of information seeking. Due to research economy, the main attention wa...