Information hippies, Google-fu masters, and other volunteer tourists in Thailand: information behaviour in the liminoid

Using social positioning theory and the concept of the liminoid, the objectives of this qualitative research project were three-fold: 1) investigate how social positioning affects the information behaviour of volunteer tourists; 2) determine what effects cultural confusion (aka culture shock), phys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reed, Kathleen
Other Authors: Julien, Heidi (Library and Information Studies)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1129