The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future

By I. Rowlands, D. Nicholas, Peter Williams, P. Huntington, M. Fieldhouse, Barrie Gunter, R. Withey, Hamid R. Jamali, Tom Dobrowolski, Carol Tenopir. ASLIB Proceedings, 2008

753 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences

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How researchers see this paper

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In Information Systems

1. Neal R Haddaway
2. J. V. van Merriënboer
3. Paul A. Kirschner
4. Neil Selwyn
5. Michael Gusenbauer

In Library and Information Sciences

1. J. V. van Merriënboer
2. Paul A. Kirschner

Citations in the corpus

• Do Learners Really Know Best? Urban Legends in Education (2013, background): “The term can be compared with others given to the generation that does not know a world without computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, such as the Net generation (Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005; Tapscott, 1997), Generation I or iGeneration (Rosen, 2007), Google Generation (Rowlands et al., 2008), an”
• The digital native - myth and reality (2009, background): “It is perhaps unsurprising that significant differences are apparent in the varying nature of technology engagement between and within these age groups (see Rowlands et al., 2008).”
• The myths of the digital native and the multitasker (2017, background): “Rowlands et al. (2008) concluded: “… that much professional commentary, popular writing and PowerPoint presentations overestimates the impact of ICTs on the young, and that the ubiquitous presence of technology in their lives has not resulted in improved information retrieval, information seeking…”
• Which academic search systems are suitable for systematic reviews or meta‐analyses? Evaluating retrieval qualities of Google Scholar, PubMed, and 26 other resources (2020, background): “88,93 We hope our study helps to create awareness of the importance of search literacy.”
• Facebook Psychology: Popular Questions Answered by Research (2012, background): “This may be explained, at least in part, by evidence that suggests users of digital media “respond to computerized devices in the way they do to people” (Williams & Rowlands, 2007, p. 17).”