Intro
Preface
Organization
Contents
Part II
Contents
Part I
Information Behavior
"We Can Be Our Best Alliance": Resilient Health Information Practices of LGBTQIA+ Individuals as a Buffering Response to Minority Stress
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
2.1 Minority Stress
2.2 Resiliency of LGBTQIA+ Individuals
2.3 Health Information Practices of LGBTQIA+ Individuals
2.4 Research Questions
3 Methods
4 Findings
4.1 Participant Demographics

4.2 Finding 1: LGBTQIA+ Individuals Engage in Resilient Health Information Practices on All Socio-Ecological Levels
4.3 Finding 2: Community-Based Resilience Characterizes Collective Health Information Practices
4.4 Finding 3: LGBTQIA+ Sub-Communities and LGBTQIA+ Individuals with Intersecting Minority Identities Integrate Externally Produced Stressors
5 Discussion and Implications
5.1 Stressors Are Integrated into LGBTQIA+ Communities
5.2 Relationship Between Health Information Practices and Resilience
6 Limitations
7 Conclusion
References

Pregnancy-Related Information Seeking in Online Health Communities: A Qualitative Study
1 Introduction
2 Background and Related Work
3 Methods
3.1 Data Collection
3.2 Data Analysis
4 Results
4.1 General Observations
4.2 Information Needs at Each Stage of Pregnancy
4.3 Types of Replies Posters Received
5 Discussion
6 Limitations and Future Work
7 Conclusions
References
COVID-19 Epidemic Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Overseas Chinese Students
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review and Research Hypotheses
3 Research Methods

3.1 Questionnaire Design
3.2 Survey and Data Collection Procedure
4 Analysis Results
4.1 Epidemic Information Needs of Overseas Chinese Students
4.2 Regression Analysis
5 Discussion
6 Conclusions and Limitations
References
Demographic Factors in the Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Methods
4 Findings
4.1 The Effect Sizes of Demographic Factors and Instances of Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour
4.2 Gender in Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour

4.3 Age in Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour
4.4 Location in Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour
4.5 Occupation in Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour
5 Discussion
5.1 Demographic Characteristics of Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour
5.2 Limitation
6 Conclusion
References
Information Practices of French-Speaking Immigrants to Israel
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Immigration and Information Practices
2.2 Problem Statement
3 Methodology
3.1 Data Collection
3.2 Data Analysis
4 Results