Call for Papers: Issue 1/2017: Human Information Behavior in IS Development and Use

摘要

Human information behavior (HIB) is a multi-disciplinary field at the intersection of different scientific disciplines, including information systems (IS), psychology, information science, sociology, and neuroscience. It is concerned with explaining and predicting human behaviors towards information. This includes behaviors relating to acquiring, interpreting, using, and sharing information, in addition to behaviors relating to limiting, filtering, and stopping the information intake. Information pathologies are of special relevance to HIB research. They describe misguided and malicious behaviors that cause relevant information not to be produced, absorbed, used, or shared. Examples are information avoidance, information hiding, and the mali- cious manipulation of information. HIB topics bring together researchers with diverse backgrounds, epistemo-logical stances, and research methods. The unit of observation is the individual, the group, the organization, and the society as a whole.