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

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.Peer Reviewe

The Framework Catalogue of Digital Competences

The Framework Catalogue of Digital Competences Justyna Jasiewicz, Mirosław Filiciak, Anna Mierzecka, Kamil Śliwowski, Andrzej Klimczuk, Małgorzata Kisilowska, Alek Tarkowski & Jacek Zadrożny Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska (2015

Ramowy Katalog Kompetencji Cyfrowych

Ramowy Katalog Kompetencji Cyfrowych Justyna Jasiewicz, Mirosław Filiciak, Anna Mierzecka, Kamil Śliwowski, Andrzej Klimczuk, Małgorzata Kisilowska, Alek Tarkowski & Jacek Zadrożny Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska (2015

Taksonomia funkcjonalnych kompetencji cyfrowych oraz metodologia pomiaru poziomu funkcjonalnych kompetencji cyfrowych osób z pokolenia 50+

The report was released by the Association "Cities in the Internet". Its aim is to develop a functional model and a directory of digital skills. It presents an analysis of research and literature, taxonomies digital skills and project functional measurement of digital literacy. The report was made under the "System Project - promoting the development of broadband", implemented by the Ministry of Administration and Digitization and the "Cities on the Internet" under the slogan "Poland Digital Equal Opportunities"

The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research

The wide expansion of digital technologies has influenced research in all fields of science as well as educational activities. Scientific objective: The purpose of this article is to examine critical areas of academic library activity, in a significant or requiring far-reaching changes in all aspects, in the context of needs of the scientific community. Research methods: It was decided that the method that will allow to outline the situation in this area will be qualitative content analysis texts from leading journals. For this purpose, the main databases of Web of Science articles have been searched: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), using the instruction TS = (“academic library” OR “academic libraries” OR “university library” OR “university libraries”) AND TS = (scholars or scientists or faculty or researchers or academics). The query limited to the last five years yielded gave as results 170 articles, of which 51 were deemed relevant to the issues discussed. Results and conclusions: In the light of qualitative content analysis of those texts, it is possible to distinguish following areas as important: general approach of scholars and librarians to cooperation, practices of research support, access to information resources adapted to scholars’ needs, data curation support, publication strategies support. On this basis, conclusions have been drawn about the role and type of support that academic libraries may provide in the process of scholarly communication. Cognitive value: This study has contributed to the research into the evaluation of academic library’s support services in the process of scholarly communication

Jaunų žmonių politinės informacijos šaltiniai: Lietuvos jaunimo informacinės elgsenos atvejo analizė

The way young people obtain political information and engage with political content has changed since the new media technologies have emerged on a large scale. Starting with a discussion of different roles of online media in the transformation of political engagement, this article analyzes political engagement from the perspectives of political interest and participation in the context of new forms of online interaction. Findings from a national survey in Lithuania (n = 412, age 18 to 22) reveal the main sources and channels through which young people receive political information and news. The result of the study shows the importance of the Internet as a political information channel for the young people, however, the use of social media and other online channels for political engagement has been discovered to be low, especially with regard to two-way interactions with politicians or political parties.Atsiradus ir masiškai paplitus naujoms technologijoms, pasikeitė būdai ir formos, kaip jauni žmonės gauna politinę informaciją ir naudojasi kitu politiniu turiniu. Iš pradžių aptariami skirtingi požiūriai į interneto įtaką politinio įsitraukimo pokyčiams, paskui analizuojami jaunimo politinės informacijos gavimo šaltiniai ir jaunų žmonių politinio įsitraukimo formos tradicinių ir naujųjų medijų sąveikos kontekste. Lietuvoje 2014 metais atliktos apklausos rezultatai (n = 412, respondentų amžius 18–22 metai) atskleidė pagrindinius šaltinius ir kanalus, iš kurių jauni žmonės gauna politinę informaciją ir naujienas. Tyrimo rezultatai rodo interneto, kaip politinės informacijos kanalo, svarbą jauniems žmonėms, tačiau socialinių medijų ir kitų interaktyvių kanalų naudojimas politiniam įsitraukimui vis dar yra labai menkas, ypač kalbant apie dvikryptę komunikaciją su politikais ar politinėmis partijomis.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: politinės informacijos šaltiniai, medijų naudojimas, politinės informacijos kanalai, politinis įsitraukimas, jaunimas, informacinė elgsena

Serija : Communications in Computer and Information Science, ISSN 1865-0929 ; Vol. 676

The objective of the research is to enhance knowledge regarding librarians’ emotions experienced while teaching, as a component of a librarian as an educator identity. Affective dimensions of teaching were researched in academic libraries of Lithuania and Poland. Data for this study were gathered using Computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI) technique. Affective dimensions experienced while teaching were explored through the semantic differential technique. The most obvious finding to emerge from this study is that librarians as educators have more positive than negative emotions about their teaching. Librarians feel that their teaching is being consistent and they have a positive attitude toward teaching, but it requires a significant effort. The largest deviation of the results was seen when talking about feelings of tiredness during the teaching process and the difficulty of teaching role. For better insight the analysis was carried out comparing results from Lithuania and Poland as well as linking emotions with job meaningfulness