... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information-seeking Gatekeeping Risk analysis Extreme sport Adventure tourism Serious leisure Cave diving Funding: Funding for this study provided by Dalhousie University. A review of the literature revealed a lack of research...

...Yazdan Mansourian Purpose The paper reports the findings of a research project exploring the information experiences of bonsai growers in Australia as an example of a serious leisure pursuit. Design/methodology/approach The study used phenomenology as a qualitative approach in an interpretive...

... Santiago, a popular European pilgrimage and UNESCO World Heritage route. Data collected from 25 semi-structured interviews and participant observations were thematically analysed within a theoretical framework combining Stebbins' contemplation and Nature Challenge Activity in serious leisure and Hektor's...

... in new ways. Fanfiction is a little studied phenomenon in SL and in LIS. This research provides connections to both areas. Reference Self-publishing Librarianship Free publications Serious leisure Fanfiction Fanfiction exists as a subset, or type, of self-published cultural product...

...Andrew M. Cox; Brian Griffin; Jenna Hartel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the role of the body in information in serious leisure by reviewing existing work in information behaviour that theorises the role of the body, and by drawing selectively on literature from beyond...