Social Information Seeking

In this introductory chapter, we present the concept of social information seeking (SIS). SIS covers situations where people use their social connections to seek, share, and process information. The chapter provides several definitions that further explain and situate this notion. It then provides a brief overview of some of the activities and applications that employ SIS. The chapter introduces several concepts that relate to SIS, such as information seeking/retrieval/behavior, social media/networking, social search, question-answering, and collaborative information seeking (CIS). It uses the interconnections among these concepts to set the stage for studying and addressing various topics in SIS. The chapter concludes by describing the organization of the rest of the book.

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