The information behaviour of Wikipedia users.
With the era of the Internet age, information seeking has evolved from users utilizing published materials and online databases to a simple keyword search on a favoured search engine in the comfort of their homes. Over the years, the Internet has been a platform for many to obtain their inf...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54542 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | With the era of the Internet age, information seeking has evolved from users utilizing
published materials and online databases to a simple keyword search on a favoured
search engine in the comfort of their homes. Over the years, the Internet has been a
platform for many to obtain their information and it is for this reason that the boundary
between accurate and not so accurate information has become a blur. Till this day,
many are lacking in the art of information literacy which looks at how a person
perceives the information in hand and how he/she would filter, refine and re-seek the
right information for their use. Information instead is used at face value, causing more
confusion and entrenching the habit of first retrieved, first used.
This study aims to examine the youths of Singapore who are in tertiary educational
institutes of different faculties, and their usage of Wikipedia as a source of
information, academically or for personal interest. Secondly, through the results
obtained through a diary study approach on these students, I look at the patterns in
information seeking amongst them and how these findings fit into a chosen
information seeking behaviour process derived from the past. |
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