Chapter 9 Understanding Casual-Leisure Information Behaviour

Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels

“…Snitow's categorization of reading romances as "leisure activities" also presages current studies of information seeking and casual leisure. 10 Reading the Romance is a classic study of the genre using reader response, feminist theory, and textual analysis. Through a key informant in a bookstore, Radway gains access to a cluster of romance readers and, through an analysis of their favored and unfavored titles, concludes that "the romance genre is precisely that: a genre, .…”

“…They celebrate female library-and-information information-seeking studies but more a use of casual leisure time or a source of entertainment. 3 Whereas information-seeking studies have usually assumed some work-or student-related purposeful searching, studies on fiction have mostly looked at how people select the fiction they read. Their fiction selections are seen as the end result of either an information behavior process using available outside resources, a successful database search retrieval using specific indexing terms, book and genre appeal characteristics intrinsic to individual fiction works themselves sometimes converted into indexing terms, or reader-driven appeal characteristics associated with readers' social milieus.…”

Informationswissenschaft und Digital Humanities

“…Dabei existiert in den Geisteswissenschaften eine deutliche Kluft zwischen benötigter Softwarewerkzeugunterstützung und tatsächlich genutzter Software (Gibbs & Owens, 2012;Warwick, 2012) software-ergonomischen Anforderungen (Wolff, 2015 (Elsweiler & Hammwöhner, 2015;Womser-Hacker & Mandl, 2013), das sich im Laufe der Jahre immer weiter aufgefächert und neue Anwendungsbereiche, wie z. B. das kollaborative Informationsverhalten in casual-leisure Zusammenhängen (Elsweiler, Wilson, & Lunn, 2011), einbezogen hat. Ohne hier auf die Details eingehen zu können, stellen die Verzweigung auf spezialisierte Kontexte sowie die Entwicklung geeigneter Methoden nach wie vor wichtige Desiderate dar.…”

A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions

“…Their analysis showed, for example, the nature of adult search sessions, and other long sessions types including: researching how to do something, and finding pictures or watching entertaining videos. Elsweiler et al [8] also investigated these latter casual-leisure sessions, highlighting a) their tendency to be long, b) that participants continue to search despite already finding good results, and c) that participants typically stop when they cannot find good results. Further, Kotov et al analysed multi-session search tasks [16].…”