[Asis-l] New Book on Information Behavior

[Amanda Spink]

Amanda Spink's new book on information behavior will be available from
Springer in March 2010  <http://www.springer.com/978-3-642-11496-0>
www.springer.com/978-3-642-11496-0 . 

 

Information Behavior: An Evolutionary Instinct

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Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life,
however our knowledge and understanding of it is incomplete and
underdeveloped scientifically. Research on the topic is largely contemporary
in focus and has generally not incorporated results from other disciplines.

In this monograph Spink provides a new understanding of information behavior
by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences,
psychology and cognition. In her presentation, she argues that information
behavior is an important instinctive sociocognitive ability that can only be
fully understood with a highly interdisciplinary approach. The leitmotivs of
her examination are three important research questions: First, what is the
evolutionary, biological and developmental nature of information behavior?
Second, what is the role of instinct versus environment in shaping
information behavior? And, third, how have information behavior capabilities
evolved and developed over time?

Written for researchers in information science as well as social and
cognitive sciences, Spink's controversial text lays the foundation for a new
interdisciplinary theoretical perspective on information behavior that will
not only provide a more holistic framework for this field but will also
impact those sciences, and thus also open up many new research directions.

 

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