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Information Behavior Lab
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The Information Behavior Lab studies how everyday media use works and what effects it has.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding human information behavior through how people use media
The Information Behavior Lab studies the mechanisms behind the media use that people engage in in their daily lives.
The subjects include reading books, magazines, and newspapers, and using the internet.
The lab also examines how the form of a medium affects its use, for example the differences between an internet-centered lifestyle and an analog one.
In the Researcher Directory, the research keywords listed are information behavior, scholarly information circulation, electronic journals, data sharing, and information practices.
Key terms
- Information behavior
- The behavior of people searching for, receiving, and using information. Media use is one part of it.
ResearchResearch themes
This lab examines the mechanisms behind the media use that people engage in in their daily lives. It also examines how the form of a medium affects that use.
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- LecturerMamiko Matsubayashi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Man reading a newspaper at a café terrace in Athens, Greece - 1979” Jean-Louis Debaize / European Communities, 1979 / EC - Audiovisual Service / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms of Media Use and the Effects of Media Form: “Reading a newspaper. Catania, Italy” Ввласенко / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Children and Youth Reading Lab): “StateLibQld 2 125327 Group of children sitting on the grass reading books” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Individual Characteristics and Social Networks Lab (Shaoyu Ye)): “Smartphone use at railway station” Rawpixel.com / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Knowledge Lab (Mikiko Yokoyama)): “Hamamatsu Municipal Sakuma Library reading room ac (4)” Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Public Library Policy Lab): “Stack of journals and books in the Central Geological Survey Library, MOEA” Kai3952 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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