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Korean Immigrant Women's Everyday Life Information S ABSTRACT Title of Document: INFORMATION PRACTICES DURING LIFE TRANSITION: KOREAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN’S EVERYDAY LIFE INFORMATION SEEKING AND ACCULTURATION Jinyoung Kim, Ph.D., 2016 Directed By: Associate Professor, June Ahn, College of Information Studies/College of Education In this dissertation, I explore information practices during life transition in the context of immigration. This study aims to understand how their unique personal, social, and life contexts shape immigration experiences, and how these diverse contexts are related to various information practices that they engage in to resolve daily information needs and achieve immigration goals. In my study I examined daily information needs and acquisition of Korean immigrant women. Data were collected through two interview sessions, diary entries on everyday information seeking up to three weeks, post-diary debriefing interviews to reveal contexts surrounding information practices, and observation sessions. My study shows that one’s accumulated experiences with information-related situations shape the person’s attitudes toward diverse information resources and habitual information practices. Both personal and social contexts surrounding immigrant women change during life transition and shape how they interpret their immigration experiences, what information they need to deal with both daily and long-term goals, and how they modify their information practices to obtain the relevant information in an unfamiliar information environment. Also, life transition of immigration entails changes in immigrant women’s social roles, which engender their daily responsibilities in the new society. These daily responsibilities motivate immigrant women’s everyday interactions with a variety of communities in order to exchange information and conduct their social roles in the new sociocultural environment. While immigrant women had common information needs around culture learning, social roles and associated responsibilities explain differences in their differing information needs and tend to direct daily information practices. The advancement of ICTs allows immigrant women to conduct their social roles in a remote city as well as to maintain multiple connections with both the heritage and host society. Limited cultural knowledge influences immigrant women’s evaluation and use of the obtained information as well as their acquisition of relevant information. This study provides understandings on the role of information during life transition as well as Korean immigrant women’s information practices. INFORMATION PRACTICES DURING LIFE TRANSITION: KOREAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN’S EVERYDAY LIFE INFORMATION SEEKING AND ACCULTURATION By Jinyoung Kim Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2016 Advisory Committee: Dr. June Ahn, Chair Dr. Brian Butler Dr. Beth St. Jean Dr. Jessica Vitak Dr. Elizabeth Toth, Dean’s Representative © Copyright by Jinyoung Kim 2016 Dedication In loving memory of my mother, Chul-Shim Goo (1954-2012). ii Acknowledgements I have always believed in three magical words: explore, experience, and enjoy. Pursuing a Ph.D. turned out to be one of the biggest adventure that I had taken in my life. Five years of my journey was fun yet challenging. I would not have been successful in completing this journey without many wonderful people and their help. I cannot think of my Ph.D. years without my advisor, Dr. June Ahn, who has contributed to my growth as a researcher. I believe that he had been struggling with this new doctoral student from time to time. I want to appreciate his patience and effort in helping me with making it through the doctoral program. I am also deeply grateful to Dr. Jessica Vitak and Dr. Brian Butler for their substantial influence in my research and their support over the past four years. Heartfelt thanks goes to Dr. Beth St. Jean, and Dr. Elizabeth Toth for their time and valuable feedback on my dissertation. Special thanks also go to Dr. Doug Oard, Dr. Ping Wang, Dr. Kari Kraus, and Dr. Allison Druin for their comments and encouragement on my study in previous years. Special thanks goes to my old and new friends. I realized how much their friendships meant to me—although some of them still vaguely know about what I had been studying and most of them cannot name my college. I am particularly thankful to Najin, a great violinist and a good friend, for her infinite friendship and a number of wonderful performances that were healthy distractions to soothe my daily stress. I owe a great deal to the participants that I had met during the past five years. I had opportunities to meet and interview people of diverse backgrounds whether they iii are adolescents, undergraduates/graduates, married women with children, immigrant women, and other adults. I learned a lot from them both intellectually and personally. Finally, I am deeply thankful to my dad for his love and support. I am so proud to be his daughter. I dedicate my dissertation to my mom, whose love, support, and sacrifices were unwavering and whose role in my life was immeasurable. I also want to thank my brother and sister-in-law, who have been taking care of family affairs on behalf of the first child in the family. I want to thank my boyfriend, Sammy, who has always supported me with great encouragement during this long journey and helped me complete this dissertation. May 2016 iv Table of Contents Table of Contents .......................................................................................................... v List of Tables ............................................................................................................. viii List of Figures .............................................................................................................. ix Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Placing Myself into My Research ....................................................................... 1 1.2 Background ......................................................................................................... 4 1.3 The Present Study ............................................................................................... 7 1.4 Research Questions ........................................................................................... 10 1.5 Significance ....................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 2: Literature Review ...................................................................................... 15 2.1 Immigration and Acculturation ......................................................................... 15 2.1.1 Types of acculturation attitudes of immigrants ......................................... 16 2.1.2 Dimensions of acculturation ...................................................................... 20 2.1.3 Summary .................................................................................................... 22 2.2 Human Information Behavior (HIB) ................................................................ 23 2.2.1 Contexts surrounding information practices .............................................. 24 2.2.2 Information practices as everyday life activities ....................................... 28 2.2.3 Sense-Making methodology ...................................................................... 32 2.2.4 Summary .................................................................................................... 36 2.3 Social Networks in the Context of Immigration ............................................... 39 2.3.1 Theories for understanding social aspects of information practices .......... 39 2.3.2 Studies on social networks of immigrants ................................................. 41 2.3.3 Summary .................................................................................................... 44 2.4. Purpose of Current Study: Information Practices of Korean Immigrant Women ................................................................................................................................. 45 2.4.1 Women’s immigration experiences and information practices ................. 45 2.4.2 Korean immigrant women in the United States ......................................... 46 2.5. Direction of This Study .................................................................................... 48 Chapter 3: Methodology ............................................................................................. 51 3.1 Overview of Research Design .......................................................................... 51 3.2 Participant Recruitment .................................................................................... 54 3.3 Data Collection ................................................................................................. 57 3.4 Narrative Analysis for Individual Cases ........................................................... 61 3.5 Grounded Theory Method for Data Analysis ................................................... 63 3.6 Data Validity ..................................................................................................... 68 3.7 Lessons Learned from the Data Collection Process ......................................... 70 Chapter 4: Narrative Analysis ....................................................................................
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