Foreword; References; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acronyms; Part I Foundation; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Defining and Situating SIS; 1.3 SIS Activities and Applications; 1.4 Relation to CIS and Previous Works; 1.5 Organization of This Book; References; 2 Information Seeking; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Foundational Models; 2.2.1 Dervin; 2.2.2 Belkin; 2.2.3 Ellis; 2.2.4 Wilson; 2.2.5 Kuhlthau; 2.2.6 Westbrook; 2.2.7 Marchionini; 2.3 Models Built on Foundational Models; 2.3.1 Expanded ISP; 2.3.2 Information Seeking and Communication

2.3.3 Mediated Information Retrieval2.3.4 Emerging Concepts: Sense-Making and Multi-Session IR; 2.4 Summary; References; 3 Social Media and Social Networking; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Social Media; 3.3 Social Networking; 3.4 Privacy; 3.5 Identity Construction and Making Impressions; 3.6 Communication via Social Media Platforms; 3.7 Social Capital; 3.8 Knowledge Sharing; 3.9 Access and Digital Inequality; 3.10 Summary; References; Part II Social Dimension of Information Seeking; 4 Online Question-Answering (Q&A); 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Types of Online Q 4.2.1 Community Q&A (CQA)

4.2.2 Collaborative Q&A4.2.3 Expert-Based Q 4.2.4 Social Q&A (SQA); 4.3 Comparing Various Q&A Models; 4.4 Content in Online Q 4.4.1 Questions; 4.4.2 Answers; 4.5 Users in Online Q 4.5.1 Askers; 4.5.2 Answerers; 4.5.3 Balance of Askers-Answerers; 4.5.4 Special Users; 4.6 Summary; References; 5 Social Search; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Defining Social Search; 5.3 Social Search Theories; 5.3.1 An Early Model; 5.3.2 Information-Driven Motivation; 5.3.3 Cognitive Motivation; 5.3.4 Collaborative Search; 5.4 Social Search Technology; 5.4.1 Statistical Analyses

5.4.2 Social Annotations and Bookmarking5.5 Co-browsing or Collaborative Navigation; 5.6 Summary; References; Part III Collaborative Dimension of Information Seeking; 6 Collaborative Information Seeking; 6.1 Introduction; 6.1.1 Collaboration to Help Information Seeking; 6.1.2 Information Seeking to Help Collaboration; 6.2 Defining and Situating Collaboration; 6.2.1 Terms and Terminology Concerning Collaboration; 6.2.2 Limitations of Collaboration; 6.2.3 Collaboration in the Context of Information-Intensive Tasks; 6.3 Collaborative Information Seeking in Context

6.3.1 Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR)and Co-search6.4 Frameworks and Models for CIS; 6.4.1 Space and Time Aspects of CIS; 6.4.2 Control, Communication, and Awareness in a CIS Environment; 6.4.2.1 Control; 6.4.2.2 Communication; 6.4.2.3 Awareness; 6.4.3 Materializing Control, Communication, and Awareness; 6.4.4 Nature and Level of Mediation; 6.4.4.1 System/Algorithmically Mediated Collaboration; 6.4.4.2 User/Interface-Mediated Collaboration; 6.5 Summary; References; 7 Social and Collaborative Information Seeking; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Background; 7.3 Current State of SCIS Research