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Taking Leisure Seriously: Information Realities In Leisure Time, Jenna Hartel, Donald Case, Crystal Fulton, Shan Ju Chang
Taking Leisure Seriously: Information Realities In Leisure Time, Jenna Hartel, Donald Case, Crystal Fulton, Shan Ju Chang
Jenna Hartel
This panel presents the information realities that exist within leisure time. It introduces a conceptual model of leisure, called serious leisure (Stebbins, 1982), that affirms the role of information in enabling leisure experience. Our panel offers a theoretical perspective and case studies of a meaningful area of everyday life that has not been a subject of much information research. The specific goals are threefold:
1.) To present state of the art theorizing and research underway into the information seeking and use that occurs in the everyday life realm of leisure
2.) To introduce serious leisure, a concept that serves as …