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Guided by the risk information-seeking and processing model, this study examines positive and negative affect separately in their influence on information-seeking intentions and avoidance through structural equation analyses. The highlight is that information avoidance seems to be driven by positive affect, while information seeking seems to be more heavily influenced by negative affect. Another interesting finding is that informational subjective norms are positively related to both seeking and avoidance, which suggests that one’s social environment has the potential to strongly influence the way he or she handles climate change information. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
In the technological world of the Twenty-first Century, students must be information literate. They must have the skills to access, evaluate, and utilize information needed in their undergraduate experience and in their future endeavors. It is important for Geography majors to acquire these skills as part of their undergraduate education. At one institution of higher learning, information literacy learning is embedded in the Geography curriculum. An online instrument to assess information literacy skills is used to evaluate seniors. In this article, goals for information literacy, the creation of the information literacy assessment instrument and the results of assessment testing are discussed.
Fachrichtung Informationswissenschaft - Exkurs: Information Retrieval - Informationen zum Studium der Informationswissenschaft, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dem Studiengang Informationswissenschaft an der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken. Virtuelles Handbuch Informationswissenschaft. Exemplarische informationswissenschaftliche Projekte. Diskussionsbeiträge.