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Social Information Seeking

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This chapter introduces the intersection of information seeking/searching and social media/networking. This intersection is called social search, and it references two concepts: people looking for information that is socially constructed and people using social connections to look for information. While some of the aspects of social search overlap with social Q&A, or in general Q&A services, there are important differences. The present chapter dwells on those differences and the uniqueness of social search by way of subtopics such as social annotations , social navigation , and co-browsing . The chapter also introduces several pertinent theories and models for social search. There are discussions on the technology for providing and facilitating social search, as well as related topics such as collaborative search .

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Shah, C. (2017). Social Search. In: Social Information Seeking. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56756-3_5

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