Information artisans: patterns of result sharing by information searchers
COCS '93 Proceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems
Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Talking in the library: implications for the design of digital libraries
DL '97 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Information seeking in context: a challenging metatheory
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Browsing is a collaborative process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Work, friendship, and media use for information exchange in a networked organization
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Inner-city gatekeepers: an exploratory survey of their information use environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: youth issues in information science
Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of reading for pleasure
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Sharing information encountered for others on the web
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information seeking and sharing in design teams
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
On the web at home: information seeking and web searching in the home environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Collaborative information seeking: A field study of a multidisciplinary patient care team
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Beyond the search process - Exploring group members' information behavior in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Collaborative information seeking and retrieval
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Collaborative Information Retrieval in an information-intensive domain
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information behavior in stages of exercise behavior change
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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HIV-AIDS information is an important resource for people affected by the disease, particularly information that they obtain from other people. Although existing studies reveal that people with HIV-AIDS (PHAs) rely extensively on personal relationships for HIV-AIDS information, they explain little about how this happens as a social process. To investigate how PHAs and their friends-family members acquire and share network-mediated HIV-AIDS information, semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted in three rural regions of Canada. Interviews were carried out with 114 PHAs, their friends-family members, and health care and service providers. A network solicitation and chain-referral recruitment procedure was used to delineate HIV-AIDS information networks for participants. Interview data were analyzed qualitatively and compared to Haythornthwaite's ([1996]) concepts of network-mediated information processes and Talja and Hansen's ([2006]) collaborative information behavior framework. Findings revealed that participants obtained HIV-AIDS information from their networks through five interactive processes: joint seeking, tag-team seeking, exposure, opportunity, and legitimation. The results of this study advance information behavior theory by pointing to the interactive character of information behavior and introducing new concepts to describe everyday life collaborative information behavior. This research also demonstrates the extensive interplay between health information exchange and the sharing of emotional support. The insights emanating from this study suggest that health information practice might benefit from a focus on program strategies such as building information network capacity, developing collaborative information retrieval systems and relationship-building, in addition to the more traditional library-related concerns of reference encounters, collections, and institutional Web sites. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.