Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society (한국도서관정보학회지)

Korean Library and Information Science Society (한국도서관정보학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

Everyday Information Practices of 'Isolated' Adolescents: A Case Study of New Korean Immigrant Adolescents in the U.S.

소외 청소년의 일상적 정보행태: 재미 한인 청소년을 사례로 하여

  • Koo, Joung Hwa (Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2015.11.19
  • Accepted : 2015.12.10
  • Published : 2015.12.31
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to explore how isolated immigrant adolescents seek and use necessary information when they are unable to use significant information sources-their peer groups-in the period of transition before new peer groups are established. Sixteen recently arrived Korean immigrant adolescents were recruited and a mixed method including surveys and in-depth interviews was used through three research phases. This study gained a preliminary understanding of isolated immigrant adolescents' information world: how they interpret their current situations and daily hassles, seek (or do not seek), and utilize information to cope with their daily life problems, and evaluate their use of information, including library systems and interpersonal sources. Five main emergent themes were analyzed from the findings and pertinent theories/models to interpret these unique features were suggested and discussed. The contribution and limitation of the study and future study are suggested and discussed.

이 연구의 목적은 청소년들이 그들의 가장 중요한 정보원인 또래집단으로부터 소외되었을 때, 그 삶 속에서 당면하고 있는 일상적 고민의 실체와 정보행태적 특징을 파악하는데 있다. 이를 위해, 최근 미국으로 이민간 16명의 한인 청소년들을 사례로 하여 그들의 이민 과정, 일상적 고민과 정보요구, 정보추구 및 회피과정, 그리고 도서관을 비롯한 정보시스템의 이용 과정에서 드러나는 특징을 조사하였다. 조사 결과 밝혀낸 5가지 정보행태적 특징을 기존 정보이론과 모델에 비교하여 분석함으로써, 또래집단으로 부터 소외된 청소년의 정보행태를 이해하기 위한 이론적 기반을 마련하고자 하였다. 한편, 연구문제를 논의하는데 필요한 데이터는 설문조사와 심층면담을 통해 수집하였고, 이 연구의 의미와 한계 그리고 후속 연구들이 논의되었다.

Keywords

References

  1. Agada, J. 1999. "Inner-city Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Survey of Their Information uses environment." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(1): 74-85. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:1<74::AID-ASI9>3.0.CO;2-F
  2. Agosto, D. and S. Hughes-Hassell. 2006. "Toward a Model of the Everyday Life Information Needs of Urban Teenagers, Part 1: Theoretical Model." Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 57(10): 1394-1403. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20451
  3. Association of College & Research Libraries [ACRL]. 2000. Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. [cited 2015. 11. 1].
  4. Caidi, N., D. Allardand and L. Quirke. 2010. "The Information Practices of Immigrants." Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 44: 493-531.
  5. Canty-Mitchell, J. and G. Zimet. 2000. "Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support in Urban Adolescents." American Journal of Community Psychology, 28: 391-400.
  6. Case, D. 2005. "Principle of Least Effort." Fisher, K., S. Erdelez and E. McKechnie. eds. Theories of Information Behavior (pp. 289-292). Medford: Information Today.
  7. Case, D. et al. 2005. "Avoiding Versus Seeking: The Relationship of Information Seeking to Avoidance, Blunting, Coping, Dissonance and Related Concepts." Journal of the Medical Libraries Association, 93: 353-362.
  8. Causey, D. and E. Dubow. 1992. "Development of a Self-report Measure for Elementary School Children." Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 21: 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp2101_8
  9. Chatman, E. 1996. "The Impoverished Life-world of Outsiders." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47: 193-206. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199603)47:3<193::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-T
  10. Choi, E. 2004. The Increasing of Residential Segregation and the Differentiation of Educational Environment in Seoul. Ph.D. diss., Seoul National University, South Korea.
  11. Chu, C. 1999. "Immigrant Children Mediators (ICM): Bridging the Iiteracy Gap in Immigrant Communities." New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 5: 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614549909510616
  12. Cline, W. and K. Haynes. 2001. "Consumer Health Information Seeking on the Internet: The State of the Art." Health Education Research, 16(6): 671-692. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/16.6.671
  13. Courtright, C. 2005. "Health Information-seeking among Latino Newcomers: An Exploratory Study," Information Research 10(2). [cited 2006. 10. 2].
  14. Corbin, J. and A. Strauss. 2008. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.
  15. Davis, M. and P. Bath. 2002. "Interpersonal Sources of Health and Maternity Information for Somali Women Living in the UK: Information Seeking and Evaluation." Journal of Documentation, 58: 302-318. https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410210425629
  16. Fidel, R. 2008. "Are we there yet?: Mixed Methods Research in Library and Information Science." Library & Information Science Research, 30(4): 265-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2008.04.001
  17. Fisher, K., J. Durrance and M. Hinton. 2004. "Information Ground and the Use of Need-based Serviced by Immigrants in Queens, New York: A Context-based, Outcome Evaluation Approach." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 55: 754-766. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20019
  18. Fisher, K. et al. 2004. "Information Behaviour of Migrant Hispanic Farm Workers and Their Families in the Pacific Northwest." Information Research 10(1). [cited 2006. 11. 3].
  19. Harris, R. and P. Dewdney. 1994. Barriers to Information: How formal Help Systems Fail Battered Women. Westport: Greenwood Press.
  20. Hersberger, J. 2001. "Everyday Information Needs and Information Sources of Homeless Parents." New Review of Information Behavior Research, 2: 119-134.
  21. Jones, C. and E. Trickett. 2005. "Immigrant Adolescent Behaving as Cultural Brokers: A Study of Families from the Former Soviet Union." The Journal of Social Psychology, 145(4): 405-427. https://doi.org/10.3200/SOCP.145.4.405-428
  22. Julien, H. 1999. "Barriers to Adolescents' Information Seeking for Career Decision Making." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(1): 38-48. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:1<38::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-G
  23. Kari, J. 1998. "Paranormal Information Seeking in Everyday Life-Part II: the Paranormal in Information Action." Information Research 4(2). [cited 2007. 12. 1].
  24. Katz, E. and P. Lazarsfeld. 1955. Personal Influence. New York: The Free Press.
  25. Korean Educational Development Institute. 2005. Educational Statistics. [cited 2011. 5. 30].
  26. Lazarus, R. and S. Folkman. 1984. Stress, Appraisal and Coping. New York: Springer.
  27. Lu, Y.-L. 2007. "The human in Human Information Acquisition: Understanding Gatekeeping and Proposing New Directions in Scholarship." Library & Information Science Research, 29(1): 103-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2006.10.007
  28. Lyskaard, S. 1955. "Adjustment in a Foreign Society." International Social Sciences Bulletin, 7: 45-51.
  29. McKenzie, P. (2003). "A Model of Information Practices in Accounts of Everyday-life Information Seeking." Journal of Documentation, 59(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410310457993
  30. Maslow, A. 1943. "A theory of Human Motivation." Psychological Review, 50: 370-396. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054346
  31. Merrell, K. 2008. Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor & Francis Group.
  32. Min, P. 2006. "Korean Americans." Min, P. ed. Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues (pp. 230-262). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
  33. Metoyer-Duran, C. 1993. "Information Gatekeepers." Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 28: 111-150.
  34. Meyers, E., K. Fisher and E. Marcoux. 2007. "Studying the Everyday Information Behavior of Tweens: Notes from the Field." Library and Information Science Research, 29(3): 310-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2007.04.011
  35. Oberg, K. 1960. "Cultural Shock: Adjustment to New Cultural Environments." Practical Anthropology, 7: 177-182.
  36. Pettigrew, K. 1999. "Waiting for Chiropody: Contextual Results from an Ethnographic Study of the Information Behavior Among Attendance at Community Clinics." Information Processing & Management, 35: 801-817. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4573(99)00027-8
  37. Pettigrew, K., R. Fidel and H. Bruce. 2001. "Conceptual Frameworks in Information Behavior." Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 35: 43-78.
  38. Reece, C. and P. Bath. 2001. "Information-seeking Behaviors of Women with Breast Cancer." Oncology Nursing Forum, 28(5): 889-907.
  39. Ross, C. 1999. "Finding Without Seeking: the Information Encounter in the Context of Reading for Pleasure." Information Processing & Management, 35: 783-799. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4573(99)00026-6
  40. Ruiz-de-Velasco, J., M. Fix and B. Clewell. 2000. "Overlooked and Undeserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools." [cited 2011. 1. 4].
  41. Russell, D., L. Peplau and C. Cutrona. 1980. "The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and Discriminate Validity Evidence." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(3): 472-480. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.39.3.472
  42. Rutten, L., L. Squiers and B. Hesse. 2006. "Cancer-related Information Seeking: Hints from the 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)." Journal of Health Communication, 11(Supplement): 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730600637574
  43. Savolainen, R. 1995. "Everyday Life Information Seeking: Approaching Information Seeking in the Context of "way of life." Library & Information Science Research, 17(3): 259-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/0740-8188(95)90048-9
  44. Savolainen, R. 2008. Everyday Information Practices: A Social Phenomenological Perspective. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  45. Schave, D. and B. Schave. 1989. Early Adolescence and the Search for Self: A Developmental Perspective. New York: Praeger Publishers.
  46. Scholte, R. and M. Aken. 2006. "Peer Relations in Adolescence." Jackson, S. and L. Goossens. eds. Handbook of Adolescent Development (pp. 175-199). New York: Psychology Press.
  47. Schutt, R. 2006. Investigating the Social World. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.
  48. Spink, A. and C. Cole. 2001. "Information and Poverty: Information-seeking Channels used by African American Low-income Households." Library and Information Science Research, 23: 45-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0740-8188(00)00067-0
  49. Solomon, P. 2002. "Discovering Information in Context." Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36: 229-264.
  50. Todd, R. and S. Edward. 2004. "Adolescents' Information Seeking and Utilization in Relation to Drug." Chelton, M. and C. Cool. eds. Youth Information-seeking Behavior: Theories, Models, and Issues (pp. 353-386). Lanham: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  51. Tuominen, K. and R. Savolainen. 1997. "A Social Constructionist Approach to the Study of Information use as Discursive Action." Vakkari, P., R. Savolainen and B. Dervin. eds. Information Seeking in Context (pp. 81-96). London: Graham Taylor.
  52. U.S. Census Bureau. 2013. Foreign born data. [cited 2015. 11. 1].
  53. Veed, G. 2009. The Role of the Peer Group in Adolescence: Effects on Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms. Ph.D. diss., University of Nebraska, U.S.
  54. Ward, C. et al. 1998. "The U-curve on Trial: A Longitudinal Study of Psychological Adjustment During Cross-cultural Transition." International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 22(3): 277-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0147-1767(98)00008-X
  55. Williamson, K. 1998. "Discovered by Chance: The Role of Incidental Information Acquisition in an Ecological Model of Information Use." Library and Information Science Research, 20(1), 23-40 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0740-8188(98)90004-4
  56. Xu, Y., C. Tan and L. Yang. 2006. "Who will you Ask? An Empirical Study of Interpersonal Task Information Seeking." Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 57(12): 1666-1677. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20339
  57. YALSA. 1994. YALSA Vision Statement. [cited 2011. 11. 9].