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Astronauts and sugar beets: Young girls’ information seeking in family interactions
Author(s) -
Barriage Sarah C.,
Searles Darcey K.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010027
Subject(s) - information seeking , conversation , context (archaeology) , psychology , action (physics) , developmental psychology , information seeking behavior , conversation analysis , social psychology , communication , computer science , geography , information retrieval , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
This paper presents preliminary results from a study examining young girls’ information seeking in family interactions. Video recordings of everyday interactions of families with girls between the ages of 3 and 6 years were coded for instances of information seeking, which were then analyzed using the methodology of conversation analysis. Results indicate that young girls’ information seeking typically occurs in response to ongoing talk and action, with few instances of information seeking unrelated to the locally immediate context of the family interactions.