For the win! Information needs in discourse of board gamers’ online communities

IF 0.7 4区 管理学 Q3 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Anna Mierzecka, Marcin Łączyński
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Abstract

As an essential part of the human experience with numerous social benefits, serious leisure is the phenomenon that has received attention in information behaviour research. Our study aims to contribute to this field by exploring board gamers’ communities’ information practices on social media sites. In our research, we adopted collectivist approaches, and the empirical part of the study was conducted as a quantitative content analysis. We examined the three most active board game Facebook groups, one for each language: English, French and Polish. The final dataset included N=764 posts. Each post from the sample was described with 47 variables, 23 of which were based upon the codebook of question topics. The information needs expressed in the form of the online questions were in overwhelming part related to the purchase intentions, less frequently concerned tactic knowledge. The distribution of replies between topics and groups in a different language showed visible differences between each group. Although this type of hobby includes both collectors’ and practitioners’ practices, the information presented in online discourse is dominated by those specific to collectors. Both information-seeking and sharing activities proved that board gamers’ online communities form a very information-rich social world.
为了胜利!桌游玩家网络社区话语中的信息需求
严肃休闲作为人类体验的重要组成部分,具有众多的社会效益,是信息行为研究中备受关注的现象。我们的研究旨在通过探索棋盘游戏玩家社区在社交媒体网站上的信息实践,为这一领域做出贡献。在我们的研究中,我们采用了集体主义的方法,研究的实证部分作为定量的内容分析进行。我们调查了三个最活跃的桌面游戏Facebook群组,分别代表英语、法语和波兰语。最终的数据集包括N=764个帖子。样本中的每个帖子都用47个变量来描述,其中23个变量基于问题主题的代码本。以在线问题形式表达的信息需求绝大部分与购买意向相关,较少涉及策略知识。不同语言的主题和群组之间的回复分布显示出各组之间的明显差异。尽管这种类型的爱好包括收藏家和实践者的实践,但在线话语中呈现的信息主要是收藏家特有的信息。无论是信息搜索还是信息分享,都证明了棋类游戏玩家的网络社区是一个信息非常丰富的社交世界。
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Information Research-An International Electronic Journal
Information Research-An International Electronic Journal INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
CiteScore
1.20
自引率
12.50%
发文量
62
审稿时长
45 weeks
期刊介绍: Information Research, is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is published by the University of Borås, Sweden, with the financial support of an NOP-HS Scientific Journal Grant. It is edited by Professor T.D. Wilson, and is hosted, and given technical support, by Lund University Libraries, Sweden.
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