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Collaborative Searching: Social Searching, Together

Information Retrieval (IR) is typically an individual pursuit where an individual searcher will engage with a search system, working alone, until their information need is satisfied. Yet in the real world there are many scenarios, both work-related and related to leisure, entertainment or hobbies, where we want to search as part of a team, maybe even a group of only two people. Collaborative In...

Searching and Researching the Baltic Sea Region

The paper presents some examples of Polish coastal provinces’ co-operation initiatives and activities in the Baltic Sea region. The authors pay attention to those aspects of cooperation which have been taken by local municipalities and communities. In addition to initiatives taken within the wider context, a substantial number of actions engage a limited numbers of participants, differ in kind,...

Plagiarism: Trespassing the Grey Zone Between Searching and Researching

Searching for Value in Researching the Adoption and Use of M-services

AbstrAct Mobile services (m-services) have become an important part of the e-commerce landscape. Although research has been conducted on which services people use and the benefits they attach to those services, the values associated with the adoption and use of m-services at the individual level is still unclear. This article addresses the question of why and how individuals adopt and appropria...

Searching for Directions: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in Researching Refugee Journeys

The refugee journey is the defining feature of the exilic process: it is a profoundly formative and transformative experience and a ‘lens’ on the newcomers’ social condition. Yet it remains a significantly under-researched theme in refugee and forced migration studies. This exploratory article maps what exists, what is missing, and what might be researched regarding these journeys. Commencing w...