Introduction: New Directions in Human Information Behavior; Emerging Evolutionary Approach to Human Information Behavior; Information Behavior in Pre-literate Societies; Toward a Social Framework for Information Seeking; Mapping Textually Mediated Information Practice in Clinical Midwifery Care; Information Grounds: Theoretical Basis and Empirical Findings on Information Flow in Social Settings; Information Sharing; Multitasking and Co-ordinating Framework for Human Information Behavior; A Non-linear Perspective on Information Seeking
Summary
Provides an understanding of the fresh directions, leading edge theories and models in human information behavior. This book examines information behaviors over various epochs of human existence from the Palaeolithic Era and within pre-literate societies, to contemporary behaviors by 21st century humans
