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In this introductory chapter, we present the concept of social information seeking (SIS) . SIS covers situations where people use their social connections to seek, share, and process information. The chapter provides several definitions that further explain and situate this notion. It then provides a brief overview of some of the activities and applications that employ SIS. The chapter introduces several concepts that relate to SIS, such as information seeking/retrieval/behavior , social media/networking , social search , question-answering , and collaborative information seeking (CIS ). It uses the interconnections among these concepts to set the stage for studying and addressing various topics in SIS . The chapter concludes by describing the organization of the rest of the book.
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Shah, C. (2017). Introduction. In: Social Information Seeking. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56756-3_1
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