Information Sifting or Knowledge Building on the Internet

Abstract

Information sifting consists of all kinds of differentiation and evaluative actions in response to information overload. Like its alter ego, knowledge construction, it encompasses both social and nonsocial strategies. Research is suggested on what information-sifting mechanisms are used in cyberspace and how increasing use of software mechanisms may affect the pattern of social sifting behavior.

Keywords

Internet information overload information filtering social construction of knowledge

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