Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison

With the rapid development of information and communication technology, seeking information over the internet has been time efficient and easily available regardless of time and place. The channels that provide information through internet have improvised and grown broader. The ubiquity of internet...

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Main Authors: Saleh, Nurliyana, Kartiwi, Mira, Gunawan, Teddy Surya
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: IEEE Explore 2018
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spelling iium-626342018-09-16T17:22:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/62634/ Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison Saleh, Nurliyana Kartiwi, Mira Gunawan, Teddy Surya TK7885 Computer engineering With the rapid development of information and communication technology, seeking information over the internet has been time efficient and easily available regardless of time and place. The channels that provide information through internet have improvised and grown broader. The ubiquity of internet and availability of information has caused people to acquire information about health easily for their respective purposes. In this study, examination of information seeking behaviour through search engine for cancer related disease from developed and developing country was conducted, using Malaysia and Singapore as case studies. The content analysis technique is used to analyse the information seeking behaviour about cancer related disease. The findings show that there are differences in the pattern of information seeking behaviour between those from developed and developing nations. IEEE Explore 2018-03-08 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62634/7/62634%20Online%20Information%20Seeking%20Behavior.pdf Saleh, Nurliyana and Kartiwi, Mira and Gunawan, Teddy Surya (2018) Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison. In: International Conference on Computing, Engineering, and Design (ICCED) 2017, 23-25 November 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8308134/ 10.1109/CED.2017.8308134
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spellingShingle TK7885 Computer engineering
Saleh, Nurliyana
Kartiwi, Mira
Gunawan, Teddy Surya
Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison
description With the rapid development of information and communication technology, seeking information over the internet has been time efficient and easily available regardless of time and place. The channels that provide information through internet have improvised and grown broader. The ubiquity of internet and availability of information has caused people to acquire information about health easily for their respective purposes. In this study, examination of information seeking behaviour through search engine for cancer related disease from developed and developing country was conducted, using Malaysia and Singapore as case studies. The content analysis technique is used to analyse the information seeking behaviour about cancer related disease. The findings show that there are differences in the pattern of information seeking behaviour between those from developed and developing nations.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Saleh, Nurliyana
Kartiwi, Mira
Gunawan, Teddy Surya
author_facet Saleh, Nurliyana
Kartiwi, Mira
Gunawan, Teddy Surya
author_sort Saleh, Nurliyana
title Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison
title_short Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison
title_full Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison
title_fullStr Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison
title_full_unstemmed Online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: A developed and developing country comparison
title_sort online information seeking behavior for cancer related disease: a developed and developing country comparison
publisher IEEE Explore
publishDate 2018
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