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I've found this research about the "Google generation" and possible scenarios of access and interaction with digital resources in five to ten years’ time. The following bit is not encouraging...but I keep on feeling positive about future developments.
"Children (especially) tend to make very narrow relevance judgements by considering the presence or absence of words exactly describing the search topic: as a result they miss many relevant documents and end up repeating searches. Information seeking tends to stop at the point at which articles are found and printed, especially for younger users, with little regard to the document content. "
Here is the link to the research: http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf
Enjoy the reading.
I've found this research about the "Google generation" and possible scenarios of access and interaction with digital resources in five to ten years’ time. The following bit is not encouraging...but I keep on feeling positive about future developments.
"Children (especially) tend to make very narrow relevance judgements by considering the presence or absence of words exactly describing the search topic: as a result they miss many relevant documents and end up repeating searches. Information seeking tends to stop at the point at which articles are found and printed, especially for younger users, with little regard to the document content. "
Here is the link to the research: http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf
Enjoy the reading.
An interesting read - especially pages 18-21 that focus on the kinds of generalizations made regarding today's youth... Thanks for sharing!
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