Reading selection as information seeking behavior: A case study with adolescent girls.

The aim of this research, Reading Selection as Information Seeking Behavior: A Case Study with Adolescent Girls, was to explore how the experience of reading fiction affects adolescent girls aged 13 through 15, and how that experience changes based upon four activities: journaling, blogging, a personal interview, and a focus group session. Each participant reflects upon works of her own choosing that she had recently read. The data is evaluated using content analysis with the goal of developing a relational analysis tool to be used and tested with future research projects. The goal of this research is to use the insights of the field of bibliotherapy together with the insights of the adolescent girls to provide a higher, more robust model of successful information behavior. That is, relevance is a matter of impact on life rather than just a match of subject heading. This work provides a thick description of a set of real world relevancy judgments. This may serve to illuminate theories and practices for bringing each individual seeker together with appropriate documents. This research offers a new model for relevant information seeking behavior associated with selecting works of essential instructional fiction, as well as a new definition for terminology to describe the results of the therapeutic literary experience. The data from this study, as well as from previous research, suggest that literature (specifically young adult literature) brings the reader to a better understanding of herself and the world around her.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Reynolds, Stephanie D.

Contributors dc:contributor

• O'Connor, Brian Clark
• Martin, Barbara Stein
• Davenport, Beverly

• bibliotherapy
• bibliocognition
• relevance
• therapeutic
• journaling
• Teenage girls -- Books and reading.
• Information behavior.
• Young adult fiction.

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Reynolds, Stephanie D.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 192004548
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3921/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc3921

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc3921