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Exploring Interaction and Participation to Support Information Seeking in a Social Information Space

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The amount of information available in electronic information spaces, such as Usenet or the World Wide Web, exceeds by far what a person could look at in a reasonable amount of time. Having access to this amount of information offers opportunities that were unimaginable a few decades ago. However, the sheer quantity involves the practical problem of finding the most interesting information without spending too much time investigating information that is less interesting (see also Chapter 10).

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Sydney, Australia

    Christopher Lueg Dipl-Inform, Dr. sc. nat.

  2. Information and Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697-3430, USA

    Danyel Fisher BS, BA, MS

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Lueg, C. (2003). Exploring Interaction and Participation to Support Information Seeking in a Social Information Space. In: Lueg, C., Fisher, D. (eds) From Usenet to CoWebs. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0057-7_11

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