Hvorfor er det sjovt at surfe på nettet? - Forskning

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Underholdende internetsøgninger – Serena Borsello
eventuelt bruges i en mere konkret forstand (fx lave en ret med en opskrift, Hartel 2006).
Disse søgninger kan være drevet af en utilitaristisk form for nysgerrighed (”utilitarian
curiosity” i Huang, 2003), idet at de er rettet mod genfinding og brug af informationen.
Denne type informationssøgninger falder ikke under definitionen af underholdende
informationssøgninger, fordi fokus med søgninger ikke er rettet mod oplevelsen. Der findes
dog også tilfælde inden for søgninger relaterede til hobbyer , hvor brugere giver udtryk for
den glæde, de får ved selve søgeprocessen. De følgende udsagn er eksempler på oplevelser,
som respondenter der har genealogiske søgninger som hobby, refererer om.
“Oh boy, I, I – it’s just – it’s a detective thing. You’ve just got to
look everywhere you can for a clue!” (Fulton 2009, s. 254);
“The pleasure I receive is not just getting the information. It’s
using something I’ve done all my life [research work] to do
something pleasurable. The research, the finding, you know,
saying “if this is so, then that must be, and this could be” and then I
pursue that and find out yes, indeed, my hypothesis was right” (ivi);
“That kind of thing is exciting to me just because, like I say, it’s
my own, my own background . . . I was a university professor . . .
I’ve done research all my life, so that type of thing I just find very
exciting and very fun . . . And, and just the puzzle of it, you know.
You know, that type of thing I find very exciting” (ivi).
Man kunne forvente, at oplevelse af søgning som en spændende detectivarbejde var
karakteristisk for netop det hobby, som disse respondenter har, men lignende oplevelse fås
også ved casual leisure, som de følgende udsagn illustrerer:
”I love the sense of seeking new information. It is a feeling of
being a detective, tracking down pieces of the story, or clues” (Chen,
Wingard & Nilan 2000);
“Searching through the net is like playing chess and . . .
playing chess stimulate your mind and your mind is sharper
because of the chess playing . . . and every time you play better . . .
you develop a certain mind to establish a collection of links which