Purpose Serendipitous information discovery has become a unique and important approach
to discovering and obtaining information, which has aroused a growing interest for …

It is a 'truth universally acknowledged'that people prefer to minimize encounters with
information they disagree with and ignore it where they find it. Algorithms purportedly …

The study focusses on online community (henceforth OC), a dominant factor in the social
media domain. OCs are growing in popularity and offer an accessible outlet for individuals …

Echoing the urge for in-depth research on the mechanisms of the seeking-encountering
tension, ie, foreground and background tasks co-exist and switch between each other, this …

Purpose This article aims to gain a better understanding of the reasons why serendipity is
designed for in different kinds of environments. Understanding these design intents sheds …

Background: The concept of serendipity has become increasingly interesting for those
undertaking serendipity research in recent years. However, serendipitous encounters are …

While computers causing chaos is a common social trope, nearly the entirety of the history of
computing is dedicated to generating order. Typical interactive information retrieval tasks …

Human Information Behavior (HIB) research commonly examines behavior in the context of
why information is acquired and how it will be used, but usually at the level of the work or …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build upon the studies of journalism from an LIS
perspective by exploring and differentiating the purposive behavior of newspaper reporters …

Information encountering (IE) often occurs during active information seeking and involves
passively finding unsought, unexpected information that is subjectively considered …