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How Students Seek Information in the Context of Fitness and Physical Exercise

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Information Experience and Information Literacy (ECIL 2023)

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We often find ourselves overloaded with information. In this research, we build upon extant theory on information literacy, rich media, and information seeking in the context of students’ fitness and physical exercise. This is important as the students’ practices of fitness and physical exercise can lead to desirable outcomes such as health, or negative outcomes such as injury. With a qualitative approach we address “how students seek information in the context of fitness and physical exercise”. Grounded upon eight interviews and in-situ observations at a Nordic University, our preliminary findings point out that even if students exhibit elevated levels of literacy in academic issues, they seek and evaluate the information pertaining to their fitness and physical exercise in a quite different way from their academic issues. As expected, students prefer rich media information in digital format, but it is striking how every student consumes information in a highly customized unique way.

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    José Teixeira

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Université Gustav Eiffel, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  4. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

    Yurdagül Ünal

  5. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

    İpek Şencan

  6. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Denis Kos

  7. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  8. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  9. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Teixeira, J. (2024). How Students Seek Information in the Context of Fitness and Physical Exercise. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Experience and Information Literacy. ECIL 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2042. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53001-2_14

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