Exploring Acquisition and Expression of Leisure Information from Serious Leisure Perspective: The Home Design Bloggers of "Ai-Lian-Gu-Dian Club"
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Wang, Ming-Yi
Abstract
Nowadays people consider highly of having a better leisure life. Robert A. Stebbins proposed the concept of "Serious Leisure" in 1982; hobbyist activity, being the most common of which, is one of the "Ways of Life" to lead people to seek information (Savolainen, 1995).
There are three purposes to this study: exploring the features of leisure information, enhancing the understanding of information behavior of the chosen hobbyist bloggers, and improving the library service for leisure information. The research questions are: (1) In which context would the home design bloggers acquire information, and what kind of skills, knowledge, and experience would they acquire? (2) How did they acquire the information? (3) In what situations would they express the information? (4) Which resources, channels, and styles would they use to express their information? (5) How does the social world of home design bloggers operate? What are the characteristics, if any, of this social world? What''s the effect this social world has on the information acquisition and expression of its members?
In this study, we have found that the two main contexts of home design bloggers are in interior design projects and in daily lives. Types of the bloggers'' information objects include: preference and self needs, space design knowledge, aesthetics, sense of beauty, reference images, products information, experience, practical or technical information, and knowledge of other fields.
The home design bloggers have expressed or given information in these seven contexts: to share their achievements, to share new information, to share experiences or knowledge, to answer or ask questions, to record personal files, to maintain their blogs, and to interact with people or expand connections. On the other hand, there are four factors which cause them not to express the information: protecting privacy, maintaining superiority and stop imitation, changes of the social world, and feeling saturated or tired of expressing information. In this study, the behavior was given the name "information hiding".
In addition, we have found that the characteristics of information acquisition and expression of home design bloggers are: (1) the tasks or activities are complex and include many purchasing behavior; (2) the preference, needs, practical information and images are important; (3) human sources, corporations, the internet, and actual applications are main information resources and channels; (4) blogs are the main tool to record their personal files, and also the platform which they acquire and express information; (5) both information acquisition and expression are important information behavior of those hobbyists.
Finally, this study suggests that home design hobbyists acquire more theoretic knowledge and that library or information providers provide more practical information or images and new platforms. Follow-up studies of information in project leisure, theory construction, and information expression vs. information hidden are also recommended.
Subjects
serious leisure
information behavior
information acquisition
information expression
information hidden
home design
hobbyists
bloggers
social worlds
Type
thesis
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