Everyday Life Information-Seeking Behavior of Marginalized Youth: A Qualitative Study of Urban Homeless Youth in Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorMarkwei, E.
dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, E.
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-19T15:06:49Z
dc.date.available2018-10-19T15:06:49Z
dc.date.issued2015-04
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the everyday life needs, information needs, sources of information, and information-seeking behaviors of homeless youth in Accra, Ghana. Forty-one homeless youth, ages 15 to 18 years participated in this qualitative study. Participants were identified by snowball sampling and data was collected by field observations, an adaptation of the critical incident technique and in-depth interviews. The results show that (1) information needs of the homeless youth in the study relate to basic needs following Maslow's hierarchy of needs; (2) their information sources are primarily interpersonal and comparatively limited in range; and (3) the most important information-seeking behavior is a community approach, characterized by free sharing of information among their social network of friends. The results further revealed that participants relied on their social network of friends to meet 8 of the 11 information needs identified in the study. The study suggests that this behavior results from their environment of limited resources, a proposition that should be examined with further research on the everyday life information-seeking behavior of marginalized communities. © 2015, Published with license by Taylor & Francis.en_US
dc.identifier.otherVolume 47, Issue 1-2, Pages 11-29
dc.identifier.other10.1080/10572317.2015.1039425
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/24582
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Information and Library Reviewen_US
dc.subjecteveryday life information-seeking behavioren_US
dc.subjecthomeless youth in Ghanaen_US
dc.subjectmarginalized youthen_US
dc.titleEveryday Life Information-Seeking Behavior of Marginalized Youth: A Qualitative Study of Urban Homeless Youth in Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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