探索數位原住民和數位移民的資訊搜尋行為

Digital natives and digital immigrants live in the same environment. They could be colleagues, co-workers, and family members. It is helpful to explore their information behavior not only to enhance understanding of each other, but for those who encounters with them such as supervisors, sales, teachers as well. This study aims to understand the information seeking behavior of digital natives and digital immigrants in the contexts of the workplace and everyday life. A total of 20 respondents (10 each for digital natives and digital immigrants) were recruited by purposive and snowball sampling. Semi-structured interviews and a V-R map tool were employed to collect data. Qualitative analysis of the interview transcripts was conducted for data analysis. Research results show that DIs and DNs have different information needs in everyday life, and that information needs of both DIs and DNs in work/study contexts are mostly role dependent. As for information resources used in work/study contexts and in everyday life