Information seeking behaviour on the internet: an exploratory study in community access centres
The information seeking behaviour of the users of Internet access centres that are located in two organizations in a town in the interior of the state of Sâo Paulo was studied. These organizations promote free internet access to the community, thereby contributing to the process of digial inclusion....
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repositorio: | Encontros Bibli |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/1160 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2008v13n25p156 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Comportamento de busca de informação Inclusão digital Internet Estratégias de busca de informação Alfabetismo em informação Information seeking behaviour Digital inclusion Information search strategies Information literacy |
| Sumario: | The information seeking behaviour of the users of Internet access centres that are located in two organizations in a town in the interior of the state of Sâo Paulo was studied. These organizations promote free internet access to the community, thereby contributing to the process of digial inclusion. The analysis of the users´ information searching behaviour sought to identify what global search strategy the users used, including search syntax and semantics, information sources and for what the Internet was used. Sixty-one questionnaires with open and closed questions were applied, and the results point to the fact that the users have little familiarity with the Internet, that they carry out one to two searches on average, and that they use few terms in the formulation of the search expression, despite retrieving the information that they require. |
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