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Information activity in serious leisure [PDF]
, 2016 Background. In the past decade, scholars of information science have started to conduct research on information behaviour in serious leisure. Presently, these studies lack common concepts and terms and empirical discoveries are not easy to assemble into theory.\ud \ud Aim.
Hartel, J., Cox, A., Griffin, B.
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Trail Running: Exploring South Africa’s Serious Leisure Economy [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2020 A health-conscious mindset has grown rapidly among South African middle-class consumers. This can be seen by their embrace of sports watches, reward-based programmes, and participation in organised leisure activities such as cycling and running.
Lynsey McEwan +2 more
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Serious Leisure:Menelisik Profesi Travel Influencer
Jurnal Kawistara, 2021 Seiring perjalanan pertumbuhan peran media digital, travel influencer menjadi sektor pariwisata yang semakin penting. Mereka merupakan orang yang berpengaruh dalam kegiatan promosi destinasi dan produk-produk wisata.
Saepulloh Saepulloh +2 more
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Societies, 2023 Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a tendency for people to participate more frequently in outdoor leisure activities as opposed to indoor leisure activities. Leisure activities bestow various benefits. The purpose of this research is to
Won-Ick Song, Byoung-Wook Ahn
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Between Sport and Leisure: Competitive Senior Ballroom Dancing as Serious Leisure
Qualitative Sociology Review, 2023 The article examines the motivations, attitudes, and practices of senior ballroom dancing (dancers over 30 years of age). The paper is based on qualitative research (interviews and participant observation) conducted in one Warsaw dancing club and ...
Mariusz Finkielsztein
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Serious Leisure and Information Behavior Research [PDF]
Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2005 Along with the development of technology, social evolution, and global economics, leisure becomes an important aspect in modern societies, so do leisure industries.
Shan-Ju L. Chang
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The construction of identities in narratives about serious leisure occupations [PDF]
, 2015 Engagement in occupation contributes to the shaping of identity throughout the human life. The act of telling about such engagement involves interaction based on symbolic meaning; the speaker constructing an identity by conveying how the occupation is ...
Baldwin C. K. +22 more
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The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years.
Veal, AJ
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From Serious Leisure to Serious Work, or, When Folk Music Struck a Chord: Careers, Habermasian Rationality and Agency [PDF]
, 2015 This paper uses the English folk music scene to consider the career arc that can develop when leisure turns to work for folk musicians. In considering this move from amateur to professional, it draws together ideas of casual leisure, serious leisure and ...
Becker H. +14 more
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Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021 The study sought to find out to what extent engagement with serious leisure, in this case, bonsai growing, can help people deal with challenging times, such as a global pandemic.
Yazdan Mansourian
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