Conceptions of the Internet in Everyday Life Information Seeking

This paper reports on college students’ everyday life information-seeking behavior and is based on findings from 8,353 survey respondents on 25 U.S. college campuses. A large majority of respondents had looked for news and, to a slightly lesser extent, decision-making information about purchases and health and wellness within the previous six months. Almost all the respondents used search engines, though students planning to purchase something were more likely to use search engines, and those looking for spiritual information were least likely to use search engines. Despite the widespread use of search engines, the process of filtering relevant from non-relevant search results was reportedly the most difficult part of everyday life research. As a whole, these students used a hybrid information-seeking strategy for meeting their everyday life information needs, turning to search engines and Wikipedia almost as much as they did to friends and family. A preliminary theory is introduced that describes the relationship between students’ evaluation practices and their risk-associated searches.

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Everyday Life Information Needs of Adolescents

10.31229/osf.io/dnmx2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Kimberly Hirsh

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Information Needs ◽

Developmental Needs ◽

The Everyday ◽

Everyday Life Information Seeking

This literature review explores the Everyday Life Information-Seeking needs of adolescents. Adolescents are at a unique stage in their development and have needs that distinguish them from both younger children and adults. This review first defines Everyday Life Information-Seeking and adolescence. It then explores arguments that ELIS needs grow out of developmental needs. It describes several typologies of adolescents’ ELIS needs. Finally, it examines the ELIS needs of specific adolescent populations.

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Necessidades informacionais de idosos em bibliotecas comunitárias: estudo realizado em uma biblioteca no município de Fortaleza, Ceará

Pesquisa Brasileira em Ciência da Informação e Biblioteconomia ◽

10.22478/ufpb.1981-0695.2018v13n2.43254 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ana Pricila Caledônio da Silva ◽

Maria De Fátima Oliveira Costa ◽

Lídia Eugenia Cavalcante

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Everyday Life Information Seeking

Apresenta estudo acerca das necessidades informacionais de idosos em contextos locais, tendo como objeto de estudo um grupo de idosos moradores do entorno da Biblioteca Comunitária Criança Feliz, localizada no Bairro Jardim Iracema, na cidade de Fortaleza, Ceará. Foram realizadas discussões teóricas acerca das temáticas: biblioteca comunitária, necessidades informacionais e, ainda, sobre idosos. No que tange à metodologia, a pesquisa possui abordagem qualitativa, exploratória e descritiva. Dentre os instrumentos de coleta de dados utilizados, valeu-se da entrevista semiestruturada e da pesquisa participativa, por meio da realização de roda de conversa e dinâmicas com os idosos. Para análise dos dados, utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo e o modelo Everyday Life Information Seeking (ELIS) concebido por Savolainen (1995). O estudo revelou que as necessidades informacionais do grupo estudado estão relacionadas principalmente às questões do cotidiano, como transportes e saúde. Constatou-se, ainda, a necessidade de que a biblioteca, lócus desta pesquisa, realize estudos de usuários com periodicidade que contemplem todos os públicos pertencentes à comunidade, inclusive os idosos, para assim atuar de forma inclusiva e democrática.Palavras-chave: Biblioteca Comunitária. Necessidades de Informação. Necessidades Informacionais de Idosos. Biblioteca Comunitária Criança Feliz.Link: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/informacaoempauta/article/view/20646/31071

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Everyday Life Information Seeking of International Students in Taiwan

Communcology Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi ◽

10.21009/communicology.041.02 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 19-36

Author(s):

Bobie Hartanto ◽

Zunvindri Zunvindri

Keyword(s):

International Students ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Information Seeking ◽

International Student ◽

Study Finding ◽

General Information ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Social Demography ◽

Everyday Life Information Seeking ◽

Use Of Internet

The increasing number of international student enrolled all around the world that leads to the needs of information problem. Different background, social demography, and general information affect the needs of information of international students. The genre of information to be search on the internet and the use of internet in seeking everyday life information take attention of researcher. The research intended to find interrelation between Social demography and general information toward genre of information chosen. This research questions were answered by conducting survey using questionnaire. Online questionnaire is chosen as the method to collect information from international students who are studying in Taiwan. This study finding released that Internet had been used as a primary medium for seeking information and most of the International students are having tendency to search information related to entertainment compare to other genre of everyday life information. In fact, personal interest information which is having important value got a low interest.Keywords: Everyday life information, Social demography, International Students.

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Everyday Life Information Seeking Behaviour of New Muslim I mmigrants in Montreal

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI ◽

10.29173/cais1045 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hawa Alnaki

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Information Needs ◽

Information Science ◽

The United States ◽

Information Seeking Behavior ◽

Science Field ◽

Muslim Immigrants ◽

Seeking Behavior ◽

Everyday Life Information Seeking

The study will examine the everyday life information seeking behavior of new Muslim immigrants in Montreal, as well as their information needs and the challenges they face. While there has been some work that focuses on the information needs and information seeking behavior of new immigrants in the United States, to date there has been little research within the Canadian context. Specifically, there is a failure to account for new Muslim immigrants' information needs in Montreal from the perspective of the library and information science field. Most information behavior research categorizes Muslim immigrants in Canada according to nationality or gender.

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