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Browsing

Browsing is a kind of orienting strategy. It is supposed to identify something of relevance for the browsing organism. In context of humans, it is a metaphor taken from the animal kingdom. It is used, for example, about people browsing open shelves in libraries, window shopping, or browsing databases or the Internet.

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Definition

Birger Hjørland
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Controversies

Marcia Bates
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Browsing versus analytical search strategies

Gary Marchionini
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Orienting strategies

Metatheories
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Browsing

Nodes15
Edges14
Triples89
Avg. degree1.87
Density0.133333
Components1

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related to References · 49
Browsing → Academic Library, Accessing, ACM SIGIR, Bates, Browsing Behavior, Browsing Information, Chang, Chignell, College, Communication, Computing, Cove, Cutts, Dearle, Gert Schmeltz, Grazing, Hypermedia, Information Exploration, Information Processing, ISBN
related to Orienting strategies · 12
Browsing → Berger, Consider, It, Kuhn’s, Similar, Sociologists, Some, Textbooks, They, Wagner, We, Zelditch
related to Controversies · 8
Browsing → According, As, Bates, Hjørland, Hjørland's, Human, In, Marcia Bates
related to Browsing versus analytical search strategies · 5
Browsing → Analytic, Analytical, Gary Marchionini, In, When
related to Is browsing a random activity? · 4
Browsing → Dictionary, Hjørland, Therefore, We
is a · 3
Browsing → activity that is governed by our metatheories, kind of orienting strategy, quick examination of the relevance of a number of objects which may or may not lead to a closer examination or acquisition/selection of
related to Definition · 3
Browsing → Birger Hjørland, In, It
see also · 2
Browsing → File, Web

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strategies information orienting doi 10 metatheories random activity hjørland human theory kind isbn definition analytical relevance may theories understood social

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Browsingis akind of orienting strategy0.90text
Browsingis aquick examination of the relevance of a number of objects which may or may not lead to a closer examination or acquisition/selection of0.90text
Browsingis aactivity that is governed by our metatheories0.90text
functionalisminstance ofTextbooks in theory frequently focus on orienting strategies0.80text
exchangeinstance ofTextbooks in theory frequently focus on orienting strategies0.80text
or ethnomethodologyinstance ofTextbooks in theory frequently focus on orienting strategies0.80text
Browsingrelated to Browsing versus analytical search strategiesIn0.60section
Browsingrelated to Browsing versus analytical search strategiesGary Marchionini0.60section
Browsingrelated to Browsing versus analytical search strategiesAnalytical0.60section
Browsingrelated to Browsing versus analytical search strategiesAnalytic0.60section
Browsingrelated to Browsing versus analytical search strategiesWhen0.60section
Browsingrelated to ControversiesAs0.60section

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