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College students' personal information management: From a perspective of information horizon theory

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Abstract

This exploratory study examined college students' personal information management behaviors in three contexts from a perspective of information horizon theory. Findings suggest that students show different density and activeness in information behaviors in different context. Academic context was most active for all activities while health was the least.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)808-810
Number of pages3
JournalProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Volume54
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2017

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by Association for Information Science and Technology

Funding

This study was sponsored by University of Kentucky faculty research fund.

Funders
University of Kentucky faculty research fund

    Keywords

    • college students
    • information behaviors
    • information horizon theory
    • personal information management (PIM)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Computer Science
    • Library and Information Sciences

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