Institution:
Department of Information Studies
Faculty of Information Sciences
University of Tampere

Tampere

Address:
Department of Information Studies
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY
33014 Tampere University
Kanslerinrinne 1
Pinni A Building, 4. floor
tel. (03) 215 6970
fax. (03) 215 6560

Contact person:
Ari Haasio
 

The goal of this research – one of the REGIS (Research Group on Information Seeking) projects – is to find out for which purposes citizens use Internet in their everyday life.
The focus of this research is on the non-work information seeking and on those reasons why people use Internet and which are the reasons for non-use.
One of the aims is to explain in what kind of situations people prefer Internet and how does their lifestyle and social background effect to information seeking process. Which are the differences in using the Internet for non-work information seeking between academically educated people and non-academic people?
Most of the data is qualitative and 50 people are interviewed for this study; 25 of them are non-academical from the background and 25 of them have at least bachelor's degree.

Keywords: citizen information needs – non-work information seeking – Internet use – social background