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http://dx.doi.org/10.14699/kbiblia.2021.32.4.231

A Study on MZ Generation's Information Seeking Behavior of Contents Platforms: Focused on Information Users in the Field of Science, Technology, and Information  

Yoo, Suhyeon (한국과학기술정보연구원 융합서비스센터)
Kim, Hyunjung (서울여자대학교 문헌정보학과)
Hyun, Mi-Hwan (한국과학기술정보연구원 디지털큐레이션센터)
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Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science / v.32, no.4, 2021 , pp. 231-263 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the information behavior of so-called "MZ Generation" users who are going to be the main information users of the continuously and radically changing scientific information environment due to the advent of various types of information media and rapid increment of digital information resources. Especially, the characteristics of MZ generation is investigated through questionnaire asking questions about their use of contents platforms, and online resources for everyday life information and scholarly information, and their way of producing, responding, and sharing information contents. The results show that they use YouTube most as the contents platform, prefer Naver as their everyday life information source, and use Google as the main scholarly information source. Their main purpose of using the content platform is to search for everyday life information rather than scholarly or professional information, and they are actively producing information, mostly to keep records of their everyday lives.
Keywords
Contents platform; Everyday life information sources; Scholarly resources; Information behavior; MZ Generation;
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