{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,10]],"date-time":"2026-03-10T06:50:32Z","timestamp":1773125432906,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":51,"publisher":"Emerald","issue":"5","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,21]],"date-time":"2021-07-21T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1626825600000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/site-policies"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["AJIM"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,6]]},"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Purpose<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper provides selective findings from a broader research project on information behaviours in serious leisure. This paper focuses on the positive feelings of information seeking and sharing in this context, aiming to capture and contextualise the joy of information embedded in and inspired by leisure activities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The required data were obtained using semi-structured interviews with 20 serious leisure participants from Wagga Wagga city in Australia, recruited via a maximum variation sampling technique. The data were fully transcribed and analysed based on a qualitative thematic analysis method.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The joy of information is embedded within a wide spectrum of information activities in serious leisure ranging from information seeking and browsing to information sharing and information creation. Among all these activities, information sharing with peers and a broader audience is the most joyful experience because it often generates social engagement, a sense of belonging and friendship. Moreover, serious leisure is a productive ground to transform hedonic wellness into eudaimonic well-being, while continuous information seeking and sharing play a significant role in achieving this goal.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Information system designers can use the findings to consider the emotional aspects of information seeking and sharing to improve the usability of their products. At the policy level, cultural policy writers and decision-makers can make more informed decisions to support serious leisure.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study explores the joyful aspects of information behaviour in a unique context. Exploring the joy of information is an emerging topic in human information behaviour scholarship, and the existing knowledge on this issue is still limited. This paper can contribute to creating new knowledge in this emerging area.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ajim-01-2021-0002","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,19]],"date-time":"2021-07-19T22:40:02Z","timestamp":1626734402000},"page":"601-617","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Joyful information activities in serious leisure: looking for pleasure, passion and purpose"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"73","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0130-5741","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yazdan","family":"Mansourian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,21]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"245","DOI":"10.1080\/00222216.2019.1672506","article-title":"I just want to keep in touch: adolescents' experiences with leisure-related smartphone use","volume":"51","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Leisure Research"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"595","DOI":"10.1080\/17439760.2016.1152502","article-title":"A differentiated approach to the link between positive emotion, motivation, and eudaimonic well-being","volume":"11","year":"2016","journal-title":"The Journal of Positive Psychology"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"180","DOI":"10.1177\/0165551508095781","article-title":"The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies","volume":"35","year":"2009","journal-title":"Journal of Information Science"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref004","first-page":"133","article-title":"Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval","volume":"5","year":"1980","journal-title":"Canadian Journal of Information Science"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref005","volume-title":"Analysing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches","year":"2010"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"271","DOI":"10.1108\/AJIM-06-2020-0192","article-title":"Motivations for music information seeking as serious leisure in a virtual community: exploring a Eurovision fan club","volume":"73","year":"2020","journal-title":"Aslib Journal of Information Management"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref007","article-title":"A model of the information seeking and decision making of online coin buyers","volume":"15","year":"2010","journal-title":"Information Research"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref008","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"807","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cptl.2018.03.019","article-title":"Thematic analysis of qualitative research data: is it as easy as it sounds?","volume":"10","year":"2018","journal-title":"Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref009","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"197","DOI":"10.1007\/s11205-013-0496-3","article-title":"The relationship between serious leisure characteristics and subjective well-being of older adult volunteers: the moderating effect of spousal support","volume":"119","year":"2014","journal-title":"Social Indicators Research"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref501","first-page":"505","article-title":"Serious leisure amongst older gardeners in Australia","volume":"35","year":"2017","journal-title":"Leisure Studies"},{"issue":"5","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref010","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.acalib.2020.102218","article-title":"Information literacy and fake news: how the field of librarianship can help combat the epidemic of fake news","volume":"46","year":"2020","journal-title":"The Journal of Academic Librarianship"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref011","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"36","DOI":"10.1108\/13673279810249369","article-title":"Sense-making theory and practice: an overview of user interests in knowledge seeking and use","volume":"2","year":"1998","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref012","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1080\/17439760.2019.1685580","article-title":"Joy: an introduction to this special issue","volume":"15","year":"2020","journal-title":"The Journal of Positive Psychology"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref013","unstructured":"Erdelez, S. (2005), \u201cInformation encountering\u201d, in Fisher, K.E., Erdelez, S. and McKechnie, L. (Eds), Theories of Information Behaviour, Information Today, Medford, New Jersey, NJ, pp. 179-184."},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Fisher, K.E. and Naumer, C. (2006), \u201cInformation grounds: theoretical basis and empirical findings on information flow in social settings\u201d, in Spink, A. and Cole, C. (Eds), New Directions in Human Information Behaviour, Springer, pp. 93-111.","DOI":"10.1007\/1-4020-3670-1_6"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref015","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ipm.2020.102307","article-title":"Social media overload, exhaustion, and use discontinuance: examining the effects of information overload, system feature overload, and social overload","volume":"57","year":"2020","journal-title":"Information Processing and Management"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref016","first-page":"1","article-title":"Finding pleasure in information seeking: leisure and amateur genealogists exploring their Irish ancestry","year":"2005"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref017","first-page":"245","article-title":"The pleasure principle: the power of positive affect in information seeking","volume-title":"Aslib Proceedings","year":"2009"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref018","first-page":"85","article-title":"The genealogists' information world: creating information in the pursuit of a hobby","volume":"8","year":"2016","journal-title":"Journal of Multidisciplinary Research"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref502","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1016\/j.lisr.2017.07.003","article-title":"Urban exploration: secrecy and information creation and sharing in a hobby context","volume":"39","year":"2017","journal-title":"Library and Information Science Research"},{"issue":"12","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref019","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1302","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.24142","article-title":"Information experience in personally meaningful activities","volume":"70","year":"2019","journal-title":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref020","article-title":"Contemplative aims for information","volume":"24","year":"2019","journal-title":"Information Research"},{"issue":"3\/4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref021","first-page":"228","article-title":"The serious leisure frontier in library and information science: hobby domains","volume":"30","year":"2003","journal-title":"Knowledge Organization"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref022","unstructured":"Hartel, J. (2007), Information Activities, Resources, and Spaces in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking (Doctoral Dissertation), ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, University of California, Los Angeles."},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref023","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"535","DOI":"10.1080\/14927713.2017.1399817","article-title":"Genealogy as a lifelong learning endeavour","volume":"41","year":"2017","journal-title":"Leisure"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref024","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5","DOI":"10.1080\/17439760.2019.1685581","article-title":"Joy: a review of the literature and suggestions for future directions","volume":"15","year":"2020","journal-title":"The Journal of Positive Psychology"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"269","DOI":"10.1080\/02614360110098676","article-title":"Lifelong learning as serious leisure: policy, practice, and potential","volume":"20","year":"2001","journal-title":"Leisure Studies"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref026","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1078","DOI":"10.1108\/JD-12-2015-0150","article-title":"Australian motor sport enthusiasts' leisure information behaviour","volume":"72","year":"2016","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"8","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref027","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1131","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.20585","article-title":"Information and higher things in life: addressing the pleasurable and profound in Information Science","volume":"58","year":"2007","journal-title":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology"},{"issue":"5","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref028","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"431","DOI":"10.1177\/0193945920959086","article-title":"Caregivers\u2019 information overload and their personal health literacy","volume":"43","year":"2021","journal-title":"Western Journal of Nursing Research"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref029","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"308","DOI":"10.1177\/0091647120907994","article-title":"Joy as a virtue: the means and ends of joy","volume":"48","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of Psychology and Theology"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"339","DOI":"10.1108\/eb026918","article-title":"A principle of uncertainty for information seeking","volume":"49","year":"1993","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref031","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1080\/10645578.2013.767728","article-title":"Numinous experiences with museum objects","volume":"16","year":"2013","journal-title":"Visitor Studies"},{"issue":"5","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref032","first-page":"503","article-title":"I can't express my thanks enough\u201d: the \u201cgratitude cycle\u201d in online communities","volume":"71","year":"2019","journal-title":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref033","first-page":"128","article-title":"Coping strategies in Web searching","volume":"42","year":"2008","journal-title":"Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"17","DOI":"10.1080\/24750158.2019.1686569","article-title":"How passionate people seek and share various forms of information in their serious leisure","volume":"69","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref035","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"887","DOI":"10.1108\/JD-08-2020-0134","article-title":"Information activities in serious leisure as a catalyst for self-actualisation and social engagement","volume":"77","year":"2021","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"5","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref036","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"680","DOI":"10.1108\/00220410710827754","article-title":"Search persistence and failure on the web: a \u2018bounded rationality\u2019 and \u2018satisficing\u2019 analysis","volume":"63","year":"2007","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref037","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"371","DOI":"10.1353\/lib.2018.0008","article-title":"Sensible shopping: a sensory exploration of the information environment of the grocery store","volume":"66","year":"2018","journal-title":"Library Trends"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref038","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"90","DOI":"10.1108\/00220410710723902","article-title":"Purls of wisdom: a collectivist study of human information behaviour in a public library knitting group","volume":"63","year":"2007","journal-title":"Journal of Documentation"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref039","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.acalib.2020.102304","article-title":"Librarians against fake news: a systematic literature review of library practices (Jan. 2018\u2013Sept. 2020)","volume":"47","year":"2021","journal-title":"The Journal of Academic Librarianship"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"783","DOI":"10.1016\/S0306-4573(99)00026-6","article-title":"Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of reading for pleasure","volume":"35","year":"1999","journal-title":"Information Processing and Management"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref041","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.psych.52.1.141","article-title":"On happiness and human potentials: a review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being","volume":"52","year":"2001","journal-title":"Annual Review of Psychology"},{"issue":"5","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref042","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"613","DOI":"10.1177\/0165551515587850","article-title":"Cognitive barriers to information seeking: a conceptual analysis","volume":"41","year":"2015","journal-title":"Journal of Information Science"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref043","volume-title":"Qualitative Research Practice","year":"2007"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref044","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"685","DOI":"10.1080\/00223980.2016.1162764","article-title":"How do we remember happy life events? A comparison between eudaimonic and hedonic autobiographical memories","volume":"150","year":"2016","journal-title":"The Journal of Psychology"},{"key":"key2021090208114153000_ref045","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"251","DOI":"10.2307\/1388726","article-title":"Serious leisure: a conceptual statement","volume":"25","year":"1982","journal-title":"Pacific Sociological Review"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref046","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"340","DOI":"10.1037\/a0021288","article-title":"Information avoidance: who, what, when, and why","volume":"14","year":"2010","journal-title":"Review of General Psychology"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref047","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"519","DOI":"10.1080\/17439760.2019.1639794","article-title":"Now you see it, now you don't: solid and subtle differences between hedonic and eudaimonic well-being","volume":"15","year":"2020","journal-title":"The Journal of Positive Psychology"},{"issue":"10","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref048","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2329","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.23581","article-title":"Sharing \"happy\" information","volume":"67","year":"2016","journal-title":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021090208114153000_ref049","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"23","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.20092","article-title":"When is `enough' enough? Modelling the information seeking and stopping behaviour of senior arts administrators","volume":"56","year":"2005","journal-title":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology"}],"container-title":["Aslib Journal of Information Management"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/AJIM-01-2021-0002\/full\/xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/AJIM-01-2021-0002\/full\/html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,24]],"date-time":"2025-07-24T23:00:15Z","timestamp":1753398015000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emerald.com\/ajim\/article\/73\/5\/601-617\/60603"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,21]]},"references-count":51,"journal-issue":{"issue":"5","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,21]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,6]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1108\/AJIM-01-2021-0002"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/ajim-01-2021-0002","relation":{},"ISSN":["2050-3806"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2050-3806","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,21]]}}}