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Information Avoidance: Out of the Shadow of Information Seeking

Up till now our understanding of information avoidance has remained fragmentary.  Researchers have been unable to give a single coherent definition of what IA actually is. With our critical conceptual review of IA, we sought to address this oversight by theorizing IA as an instance of human information practice—distinct from, but co-existing dynamically with information seeking.

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