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The Google Generation

Are ICT innovations Changing information Seeking Behaviour?

  • 1st Edition - November 11, 2009
  • Authors: Barrie Gunter, Ian Rowlands, David Nicholas
  • Language: English
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 6 3 - 9

The Google Generation examines original and secondary research evidence from international sources to determine whether there is a younger generation of learners who are adopting… Read more

The Google Generation

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The Google Generation examines original and secondary research evidence from international sources to determine whether there is a younger generation of learners who are adopting different styles of information search behaviour from older generations as a function of their patterns of use of online technologies. The book addresses the questions: might the widespread availability and use of search engines, such as Google, give rise to a different type of scholar who seeks out and utilises online information sources and thereby develops a different orientation to learning from older generations whose information seeking practices became established initially in the offline world.