Information Behavior

Information Behavior

Information behavior encompasses the ways people seek, manage, share, and use information in different contexts. The field explores human interactions with information, including the cognitive, emotional, and situational factors that characterize these interactions. Information behavior examines how individuals and groups acquire, process, and communicate information and how they seek meaning in information in various contexts, for professional and everyday needs. This field of research focuses on identifying information needs and practices, information sources, and the outcomes of information use.