Search strategies
Monday, 9 July 2018
Today we will return to talking about information seeking, but approach it from a practical perspective. We will discuss and practice how to formulate queries and search strategies for both exploratory search and and more advanced search.
We will also begin talking about mediation in information behavior.
Look over the following and familiarize yourself with different approaches to understanding search strategies:
- Fidel, R. (2012). Five search strategies. In Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior (Ch. 5, pp. 97-118). Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262017008.003.0003