Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Rethinking Media Richness: Towards a Theory of Media Synchronicity
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
What we talk about when we talk about context
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Knowledge Sourcing Effectiveness
Management Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Part II: Information seeking research
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
Who will you ask? An empirical study of interpersonal task information seeking
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Antecedents to Relational and Nonrelational Source Use: An Exploratory Investigation
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Determinants of the Use of Relational and Nonrelational Information Sources
Journal of Management Information Systems
Context in information behavior research
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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Past studies on a person's choice of information sources have shown mixed results because of a lack of understanding of the 'context' surrounding information seeking that impacts a person's choice of an information source. The Contextual Identity Framework combines three conflicting views of context to try and define its boundaries in information behavior. However, it is not clear in which of these three views of context would 'information source' fit. Would it be part of the shared context or contextual stereotype or both? Also, prior studies have often muddled the distinction between sources and channels, and between sources and source types. They have not been comprehensive in classifying types of information sources, especially with the advent of new media. To help address these gaps, this theoretical study proposes: 1) a classification of information source types; 2) a workflow of interaction among different possible elements of context; and 3) the placement of information source within the context of information seeking behavior as defined by the Contextual Identity Framework. The frameworks should help us better understand information sources in relationship to the context of information seeking behavior, and help lend greater rigor to empirical studies relating to a person's choice of information sources. It would also benefit designers of search systems paving the way for the possible information seeking systems that take the context of search into consideration.