Life in a small world: Applicability of gratification theory to information-seeking behavior.
Elfreda A. ChatmanPublished in: J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. (1991)
Keyphrases
- information seeking
- small world
- user actions
- small world networks
- scale free
- search tasks
- power law
- information resources
- complex networks
- information retrieval
- interactive information retrieval
- social networks
- path length
- preferential attachment
- query suggestion
- numerical simulations
- contextual factors
- network structure
- social network analysis
- digital libraries