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SOCIAL INFORMATION SEEKING - CHIRAG SHAH GEBUNDEN

This volume summarizes the author's work on social information seeking (SIS)  and at the same
time serves as an introduction to the topic. Sometimes also referred to as social search or
social information retrieval  this is a relatively new area of study concerned with the seeking
and acquiring of information from social spaces on the Internet. It involves studying
situations  motivations  and methods involved in seeking and sharing of information in
participatory online social sites  such as Yahoo! Answers  WikiAnswers  and Twitter  as well as
building systems for supporting such activities.The first part of the book introduces various
foundational concepts  including information seeking  social media  and social networking. As
such it provides the necessary basis to then discuss how those aspects could intertwine in
different ways to create methods  tools  and opportunities for supporting and leveraging SIS.
Next  Part II discusses the social dimension and primarilyexamines the online
question-answering activity. Part III then emphasizes the collaborative aspect of information
seeking  and examines what happens when social and collaborative dimensions are considered
together. Lastly  Part IV provides a synthesis by consolidating methods  systems  and
evaluation techniques related to social and collaborative information seeking. The book is
completed by a list of challenges and opportunities for both theoretical and practical SIS
work.The book is intended mainly for researchers and graduate students looking for an
introduction to this new field  as well as developers and system designers interested in
building interactive information retrieval systems or social community-driven interfaces.

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