• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.143-153
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• 2009

본 논문은 어린이와 청소년들의 학습을 위한 정보이용에 관한 주요 연구들을 조사 분석하여 자연스런 정보이용의 패턴을 종합적으로 제시하고자 하였다. 어린이와 청소년들이 직접 연구에 참여한 현장중심의 연구들을 통해서 어린이와 청소년들의 정보이용은 정보문제의 성격, 접근도구의 질적 수준, 접근 도구와 정보 문제에 대한 어린이들의 경험과 지식, 그리고 어린이와 청소년들의 인지적 능력간에 밀접한 관계가 있다는 것을 재차 확인하였다. 본 논문이 연구자들에게는 후속연구에 대한 실마리를 제공하고 실무자들에게는 학습을 위한 효과적인 정보이용의 환경 설계와 서비스 기획에 근거를 제공하기를 바란다.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.15-25
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• 2017

Nowadays the enormous growth of modern information communication technologies and its massive use have influenced information users all over the world. Such a digital environment has drastically changed the information seeking patterns of information users of every community. These also tend law students to use various legal information sources and services in digital environments while seeking information. But there have been few empirical user studies on the aspect of digital information seeking behaviours of law students in either law or library and information science literatures. This paper aims to draw out patterns of information seeking behavior of students of law in digital environments at the University of Dhaka. A stratified random sample survey was conducted for this study. The results show that students prefer the electronic format of information rather than printed format. Major e-resources used by them and the influential factors of use were also identified in this study. This study also identified some crucial problems for seeking information and provides suggestions for the development of electronic legal information systems.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.25-45
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• 2016

This study investigates how high school students with low academic achievement seek and use information. Participants were seven US students in an American Literature and Composition course of the $11^{th}$ grade Remedial Education Program who completed a class project that required comprehensive information seeking and use. Data were collected through comprehensive observation and individual interviews with each student, the teacher, and two library media specialists. Additionally, we gathered and analyzed the instructions the teacher and the two library media specialists provided and all documents each student produced to complete the class project. The process of data analysis was supported by QSR NVivo. The findings of the study implied that students experienced cognitive and affective challenges for their information seeking and use required for the tasks and suggested that technological and individual conferencing would motivate the students to continue their information seeking and use. We then conclude the study with some important implications that can be used as a basis for designing information literacy instructions for students with low academic achievement.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.38-52
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• 2022

Since older people are traditionally considered disadvantaged when it comes to Internet use, it is useful to examine whether older individuals use the Internet for health information seeking (HIS). This study aims to investigate digital inequalities in terms of Internet use by older population for HIS in the European region. As methods, we applied secondary data analysis (of Eurostat data) to investigate the influence of age, educational level, sex, and countries' wealth. Cluster analysis combined with multidimensional scaling was used to find out those countries exhibiting similarities in older people's online HIS. The main results are: Older individuals do not equally use the Internet in general and for HIS in particular. Older Internet users with higher level of education and of the female sex are more likely to use the Internet for health information.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2018

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among narcissism, usage motives, usage behaviors, satisfaction with and continuance intention to use fashion social media. Research design, data, methodology - A questionnaire survey was used to collect data after conducting a pilot test. Based on the reliability test of the preliminary questionnaire used for the pilot test, the questionnaire was revised. The final questionnaires were administered to 238 fashion social media users and 216 were used for the data analysis. To assess the validity of these measures, exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analysis were performed. Structural equation modeling analysis were employed for data analysis. Results - Five factors of the usage motivation of fashion social media were extracted: information-seeking, relationship-seeking, practicality-seeking, enjoyment-seeking and self-expression motives. The statistical analysis confirmed the influence of the narcissism tendency on all of the usage motives of fashion social media, three of the fashion social media usage motives influencing information diffusion behavior, and the influence of the information diffusion behavior on users' satisfaction and continuance intention to use fashion social media. Narcissism exerted the highest influences on self-expression motive followed by information-seeking, enjoyment-seeking, relationship-seeking and practicality-seeking motives in order. Factors affecting fashion information diffusion behaviors are practicality-seeking motive, self-expression motive, and relationship-seeking motive. The greater the diffusion of information, the higher the satisfaction with using fashion social media. The consumers with higher satisfaction intended to use fashion social media and share information more frequently. Conclusions - The results indicate that narcissism is an important factor in fashion social media usage motivation. The main motives for narcissistic people to spread information is for the practical purpose at the most, and then to express their personality and style, and to build relationship with others. The satisfaction through active information sharing behaviors seems to play a key role to lead high continuance intention of fashion social media. These implies that marketing strategies to satisfy consumers' narcissism and motives to use social media, and to stimulate the information diffusion behaviors can be used to meet their needs for higher satisfaction with fashion social media.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.435-449
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• 2009

새로운 기술의 발달과 병행하는 정보이용환경의 급격한 변화는 정보원의 이용 및 정보서비스에 대한 새로운 고찰을 요구한다. 이용자 정보추구의 올바른 이해는 정보서비스의 향상에 핵심적인 역할을 하고 있으므로 변화하는 정보이용환경에 따라 이용자의 정보추구를 시기적절하게 새롭게 고찰할 필요가 있다. 많은 이전 연구들이 이용자 정보추구에 초점을 맞추고 있으나 의사들의 정보추구, 특히 진료정보 및 의학지식 추구를 동시에 대상으로 한 연구는 거의 없다. 이에 따라 본 연구는 진료와 의학연구를 동시에 수행하는 대학병원의 강사인 의사들의 정보추구행태를 탐구하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. 본 연구는 연세의료원 강사 12명을 대상으로 개방형 반구조화 형식의 심층 면접을 통하여 수집하였다. 면접 내용은 크게 연구 환경, 진료와 관련된 정보 추구 행태, 선호하는 정보원과 자료 유형, 검색과정과 만족도의 4가지 주제로 구성하였다. 응답 결과 연구 목적의 정보추구에 있어서는 PubMed를 통한 전자학술지 대한 신뢰도가 더 높았으나 진료 목적인 경우에는 인쇄형태의 교과서를 더 선호하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 정보원에 대한 권위와 근거를 매우 중요시하는 의사들의 태도에서 그 원인을 찾을 수 있다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제25권
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• pp.389-413
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• 1993

This study was inspired by the growing importance of information as a resource for improving the quality of life, the lack of systematic research about the information environment of Koreans in the United States and the lack of understanding of the relationships between individual characteristics and information seeking behavior. During 1990 and 1991, 204 Koreans, 18 years old and more, residing in the City of Los Angeles, were interviewed. Generally the information seeking behavior of Koreans appeared to be similar to that of the socioeconomically advantaged segment of the general public. They are relatively well aware of their information needs. capable of articulating them, and willing to pursue information to meet their needs. Major findings include: (1) the dominance of educational information needs: (2) positive feelings of hope, curiosity. and interest associated with information needs: (3) the tendency to pursue information with the expectation of potential rather than immediate rewards: (4) the expertise of information sources and their ability to provide information directly relevant to a need as criteria for selecting an information source: (5) the generally heavy reliance on informal interpersonal information sources and the high ranking of professionals as the starting point for information seeking and in judgements of usefulness: and (6) the dominant use of Korean ethnic information sources. Statistically significant correlations found at the 0.05 level relate (1) level of education, age, and gender with type of information need, the feelings associated with an information need, motivations to seek information, and the use of information sources, (2) proficiency in English and length of residence in the United States with the extent to which ethnic information sources are used, and (3) pattern of daily use of media with the use of media in seeking information.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.30-48
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• 2016

Information seeking behaviour is an activity of an individual in the process of identifying information that suits his/her knowledge pursuit. It is observed from the review of literature that there is no single study on the information seeking behaviour of faculties of pharmacy either at state level or national levels in India. Therefore this research has been conducted to bridge the gap on information seeking behaviour of pharmacy faculty in Tamil Nadu in view of the recent developments in information seeking behaviour, with objectives such as: to identify the information needs and seeking behaviour of faculty of the pharmacy educational institutions in Tamil Nadu (India); to examine the motivating factors for information seeking behaviour of the pharmacy faculty; to examine faculty opinions about the comprehensiveness or otherwise of respective institutions' library collections; and to analyse the extent of use and dependence on various sources of information for teaching and research. A total of 729 questionnaires have been distributed among 41 pharmacy educational institutions in Tamil Nadu, out of which 601 have responded, and the response rate is 82.44%. Based on the findings of the study certain implications have been derived as measures to enhance the quality of the pharmacy libraries in Tamil Nadu.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제78권
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• pp.116-140
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• 2016

본 연구는 2015년 메르스 위기 중 두 차례에 걸쳐 동일한 응답자들을 대상으로 수집한 온라인 패널 서베이 자료를 이용해 개인의 위기관련 정보탐색 처리에 미치는 요인과 위험정보 탐색처리가 위험 방지행동에 긍정적 영향을 미치는지를 검증하였다. 또한 메르스 위기 상황에서 SNS를 통해 가족, 친구, 지인과 활발한 소통이 메르스 위기관련 정보의 탐색, 처리 그리고 방지행동에 어떤 조절 영향을 미치는지도 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 위기정보 탐색처리 모델은 한국의 메르스 위기상황에서 그 타당성이 검증되었으며, 특히 메르스 관련 정보의 적극적 탐색과 체계적 처리가 이후 메르스 방지 행동에 긍정적 영향을 미쳤다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이와 함께, SNS 이용량에 따라 나뉜 두 집단에서 메르스 관련 정보의 탐색과 처리에 미치는 요인과 그 결과에 유의미한 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었다. SNS 이용에 따른 조절효과는 주로 부정적 감정과 사회적 동기요인을 중심으로 드러났고, 연구결과는 메르스 위기 중 SNS의 이용이 불필요한 공포를 조장한다는 우려와는 달리 위기의 지각이 부정적 감정으로 이어지는 관계를 완화시켜주고, 나아가 사회적 동기요인을 자극하고 메르스에 대한 체계적 정보처리를 강화시키는 영향을 미쳤다는 것을 보여주었다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.289-324
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• 2021

This study reports on early adolescents' health information seeking behaviors that investigated cognitive, affective, and physical aspects of behaviors as they experienced to find information on their needs of health information seeking. In spite of the current widespread internet health information use by adolescents, little research exists to illuminate how they are engaged in cognitive, affective, and physical information behaviors in information search process. Qualitative data were collected through individual interviews informed by Kuhlthau's information search process. Forty adolescents from S city in South Korea participated in the project. Findings report thoughts, feelings, and actions aspects of information search process. This study expects to extend our knowledge of the adolescents' health information seeking behaviors of Kuhlthau's information search process.