Social information seeking
FIELD OF RESEARCH THAT INVOLVES STUDYING SITUATIONS, MOTIVATIONS, AND METHODS FOR PEOPLE SEEKING AND SHARING INFORMATION IN PARTICIPATORY ONLINE SOCIAL SITES
Social information seeking (SIS) is a field of research that involves studying situations, motivations, and methods for people seeking and sharing information in participatory online social sites, such as Yahoo! Answers, Answerbag, WikiAnswers and Twitter as well as building systems for supporting such activities.