This chapter does not attempt to furnish an overview of multitasking research in every
scientific discipline. Rather, we highlight the importance of multitasking in the cognitive and …

Purpose Information literacy (IL) within the everyday life context is regarded as an important
condition for civic participation and engagement, informed citizenship, health and well …

Social media are playing an increasingly important role as information sources for travelers.
The goal of this study is to investigate the extent to which social media appear in search …

Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two
decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the
core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors …

The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly
studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language …

Annotation. Digital methods may be contrasted with what has come to be known as virtual
methods, a currently dominant approach to the study of the Internet. Virtual methods, rooted …

This study extends the conventional and superficial notion of measuring digital skills by
proposing definitions for operational, formal, information and strategic skills. The main …

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate
online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines …