This study is an attempt to explore the changes digital technologies are having on the experience of watching television. When new technologies are introduced, revolutionary claims are often made for the new media they help form. A frequent claim is that new media are more ‘progressive’ than older media forms, and encourage more democratic par…[Read more]

The survey questions used in the athlete survey for the Inform to Perform project for any researcher wishing to reproduce this study for comparative research. The project dissertation is published at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M67S9N and data set at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6436P.

This data set provides processed, aggregated survey results for the quantitative data questions in an athlete survey on information behaviour for Inform to Perform. The survey instrument was an online questionnaire in SurveyGizmo. The survey questions are provided in a separate supplement for those wishing to reproduce the survey. The data for…[Read more]

Sporting information has been relatively unexamined in library and information science (LIS) literature with most research concentrating on collection management or archival functions. User studies in LIS have covered some aspects of outdoor recreation and hobbies, but only one study has been found explicitly researching amateur athletes. This…[Read more]