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Adolescents' information‐creating behavior embedded in digital Media practice using scratch

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  • Kyungwon Koh

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This study explores the ways adolescents create information collaboratively in the digital environment. In spite of the current widespread practice of information creation by young people, little research exists to illuminate how youth are engaged in creative information behavior or how they make participatory contributions to the changing information world. The purposefully selected sample includes teenagers who actively produce and share information projects, such as online school magazines, an information‐sharing website in Wiki, and a digital media library, using Scratch—a graphical programming language developed by MIT Media Lab. Qualitative data were collected through group and individual interviews informed by Dervin's Sense‐Making Methodology. The data analysis technique included directed qualitative content analysis with Atlas.ti. Findings reveal the process of information creation, including content development, organization, and presentation of information, as well as noticeable patterns by youth such as visualizing, remixing, tinkering, and gaining a sense of empowerment. This study extends our knowledge of the creative aspects of information behavior.

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  • Kyungwon Koh, 2013. "Adolescents' information‐creating behavior embedded in digital Media practice using scratch," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(9), pages 1826-1841, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:64:y:2013:i:9:p:1826-1841
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.22878
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    1. Xiaofeng Li, 2021. "Young people's information practices in library makerspaces," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 72(6), pages 744-758, June.
    2. Jason C. Yip & Kung Jin Lee & Jin Ha Lee, 2020. "Design partnerships for participatory librarianship: A conceptual model for understanding librarians co designing With digital youth," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 71(10), pages 1242-1256, October.
    3. Vanessa L. Kitzie & Travis L. Wagner & Valerie Lookingbill & Nicolas Vera, 2022. "Advancing information practices theoretical discourses centered on marginality, community, and embodiment: Learning from the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and as," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 73(4), pages 494-510, April.

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