Dokument: Information Behavior, Information Horizons, and Social Media
| Titel: | Information Behavior, Information Horizons, and Social Media | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=62552 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20230502-140342-4 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Zimmer, Franziska [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Prof. Dr. Stock, Wolfgang G. [Gutachter] Prof Dr. Veszelszki, Ágnes [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke » 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the World Wide Web for remote work, online school, or digital transactions are part of many people’s daily lives. Where we once could find select information sources, people are able to find and produce large amounts of information that can express accurate but also false propositions. With this in sight, the study of information, or information science, and its research topics are of timely importance as they offer tools to investigate this phenomenon.
Today's major online services are social media. Information scientists can observe the users’ activities concerning information, i.e., their information behavior. Many people accept social media as their source for information, social interaction, entertainment, or self- presentation. Conceptually, social media are part of people’s information horizons, encompassing all accessed information sources when searching for information. On social media, people can influence their own and other users’ information horizons. What implications does this bring for me as a user but also for society? This leads to the research idea of this dissertation: What is the information behavior of social media users and how are their information horizons conceptualized? One, live streaming services are investigated which are a new type of social media and through their synchronous nature offer the investigation of information production and consumption at the same time. Related, gamification elements, which are traditionally used to aid users in reaching certain goals, are successful on live streaming services. As a group potentially vulnerable to the information shared on social media, asylum seekers and their information behavior are investigated to understand how they use social media and what information needs they have. Gender-dependent observations are considered when analyzing the information behavior of social media users. Finally, as fake news can be an information source, we need to understand the social media user’s role in its dissemination. To investigate these aspects, a mixed method approach was applied using literature review, survey research, interviews, case study, and content analysis. What is new in this study? Information production has since been introduced for research models of information behavior and information science research and needs to be considered when talking about the information horizons framework. This was proposed and partly proven for the first time with this dissertation. The information behavior of users depends on their context; determined by being anonymous, the user’s gender or finding oneself in changing circumstances. Social media is part of user’s information horizons which is directly shaped and influenced by their respective information behavior. This is especially obvious with the dissemination of fake news. Concluding, contemporary facets of our current information era could be analyzed for various aspects on social media. | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät » Institut für Sprache und Information » Informationswissenschaft | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 02.05.2023 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 02.05.2023 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 20.03.2023 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 02.05.2023 |
