This article does not touch on web browsing at all - the point of departure is browsing for books in a library - but readers will spot the connection immediately. "Specifically, we take in a scene all at once in a massively parallel glimpse, then select or sample a spot within the glimpsed area to examine more closely, using higher-level capabilities which require much more mental processing space." The process of selection, I would say, is based on recognition: we spot the familiar in an unfamiliar scene, and the unfamiliar in a familiar scene. Some other worthwhile reads from the recent issue of Information Research include Chun-Yao Huang, et.al., who argue that the more pages a web browser visits, the more they tend to read only a few specific pages. Also, though I question this study's conclusion, Thelwall, Byrne and Goody suggest that the same types of stories you find on CNN are popular with bloggers. Via EduResources.
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