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Download fileInteraction with information in work and everyday life contexts: a qualitative study of the information behaviour of Saudi female academics
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posted on 2016-01-14, 15:03 authored by Fatmah M.S. AlmehmadiThis study aims to investigate Saudi female academics’ information behaviour (IB)
within their work and everyday life contexts. A qualitative research approach was
adopted to investigate the range of information behaviour that the research participants
engaged in. The data for this study were collected via in-depth semi-structured
interviews and diaries. Participants’ accounts were then subject to a rigorous thematic
data analysis process.
The research findings indicated that female academics who participated in this study
engaged in three main categories of information behaviour: information acquisition,
information avoidance, and information sharing. The motivations and the strategies
associated with each category have been depicted in a taxonomy of information
behaviour. In addition, a detailed analysis of participants’ IB as an action-oriented
process has been presented visually, leading to the development of a model that depicts
IB as a contextual process. [Continues.]
Funding
Saudi Arabia, Cultural Bureau (London).
History
School
- Science
Department
- Information Science
Publisher
© F. AlmehmadiPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.Language
- en