期刊名称：Library Information Research : Research into Practice for Information Library Services
印刷版ISSN：1756-1086
电子版ISSN：1756-1086
出版年度：2006
卷号：30
期号：94
页码：61-65
语种：English
出版社：CILIP Library & Information Research Group
摘要：Despite there being larger numbers of older people in rural populations in the UK, there has been very little research undertaken with this group. The research uses a social ethnographic approach grounded in information and social network theory. The paper describes the progress so far, places the research within a theoretical context, describes the way stage one fieldwork was undertaken and identifies the themes that emerged to inform stage two design. The second stage fieldwork is described using some of the initial findings from the observation, interview and participant diary data collected. The paper concludes that the research will provide a unique insight into the social networking of information amongst active older people in a very rural community in the rural North Pennines and inform the planning of service provider information provision for this population group.
关键词：information science; information management;older people; rural; Cumbria; social networking; information provision; service provider
