Written by I just want to check in with everyone about Blog Report number four. This blog report should highlight a single article from your own individual research into your communities’ information behaviors and needs. Please do not select an article from our course readings — if anybody has started down this path that is fine. Just switch gears and write up one of the articles you found. It helps you get into the LRM as well.
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Hello Professor,
For blog report #4, can I use this article: Associations between mastery of life and everyday life information-seeking behavior among older adults: Analysis of the Pew Research Center’s information engaged and information wary survey data?
Reference:
Choi, W., Park, M. S., & Lee, Y. (2022). Associations between mastery of life and everyday life information‐seeking behavior among older adults: Analysis of the Pew Research Center’s information engaged and information wary survey data. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(3), 393–406. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24556
Thank you for your time
@daotran If you think it is a very useful article that speaks to the information behaviors and needs of your community, then by all means!
Thank you!
Hello Professor,
If the article that I use to summarize for the assignment has three authors, am I required to study all three authors or only focus on the first one?
Thank you for your answer,
Dao
@daotran I would say one sentence or so per author would be fine. Something like where they teach/research, etc.
That’s helpful. Thanks for the clarification!
I’m actually having a lot of trouble finding a peer-reviewed article about information behavior and crosswords. For assignments so far, I’ve taken a wide-angle view with serious leisure and then drawn comparisons between the crossword community and studies that exist for similar communities, but having to do a single article is tripping me up. The only article I’ve been able to find (so far) that even mentions crosswords is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2011.12.002 but it’s not really what I’m looking for. I haven’t found success with “puzzles” either, except jigsaw puzzles (Garcia, 2013, “Explorers, Detectives, Matchmakers, and Lion Tamers: Understanding Jigsaw Puzzlers’ Techniques and Motivations”).
I’m planning to ask a librarian for more help today, but if that doesn’t work out, would it be okay to summarize an article about a similar community? (Either the jigsaw puzzle one, or others I’ve found about board gamers or fanfiction.) Or should I think about changing focus?
@jrogoff. It is absolutely OK to summarize an article about a similar community. Students do it all the time and they should because there’s never going to be enough specific articles on some of our information communities. If you find a useful study under the realm of serious leisure and LIS I think you can draw connections between whatever group they’re looking at and your community. I would even venture to say articles on gamers information behaviors could even inform your views of crossword puzzle folks. I’m glad you asked this question.
Thank you Professor! I will do that. Incidentally, there are actually a lot of crossword puzzles in peer reviewed journals (ask me how I know). Seeing as everyone likes doing crosswords, someone should really study that…
@jrogoff How do you know? 🙂
You probably guessed this, but this search finds quite a few! https://csu-sjsu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,crossword%20puzzles&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01CALS_SJO:01CALS_SJO&mfacet=tlevel,include,peer_reviewed,1&offset=0 (I found that using quotations or doing a search by subject helps find actual papers about crossword puzzles.)
@jrogoff Wowza!