Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory

摘要

The book is in four parts and it includes both a subject and an author index. It also has short biographies of the contributors and a very useful bibliography of nearly 30 pages consisting of the material the papers are based on. The four themes in the book contain 17 research papers.rnThe book starts with a comprehensive introduction by Diane Nahl in which she introduces the background for and the state-of-the-art research into affections and sentiments in information behaviour and she also introduces every single paper and puts them in context. The four themes or parts of the anthology are theoretical frameworks. The second part is named macro-emotional information environment, and the third is micro-emotional environment. The last part is called special information environment.