Abstract
It is widely received that personal records are a kind of unique documentary evidence for both individual and the society. Thus, same care is required for the preservation of personal records as for public records. While personal archiving in the analogue environment has been extensively studied by scholars from different fields, the rapidly changing web environment are raising new challenges on personal information behavior, further, personal digital archiving. To effectively address these challenges, it is important to first understand what the individuals’ perception and behavior of personal digital archiving are. The proposed presentation aims to contribute to this knowledge by discussing the preliminary results of a mixed-method study on the behavior and perception of personal digital archiving of Chinese university students. More specifically, the mixed-method study is approached sequentially by first using a web-based questionnaire to investigate Chinese university students’ perception of personal digital archiving when using email and blogs, which is followed by a semi-structured interview of information professionals to solicit their opinions on the results of the web-based questionnaire and the role of information professionals for facilitating personal digital archiving. The results of this study will shed light on Chinese university students’ awareness of personal records preservation, the measures used for personal records preservation, the difficulties encountered, and responsibilities of different stakeholders (e.g., individual, web service provider, and information professionals) for personal digital archiving. This knowledge will help identify focal areas for future personal digital archiving research.
Highlights
As the widespread usage of the internet and digital products, the proportion of Chinese Internet Development. 2016-01-22, http://www.cnnic.net.cn/hlw fzyj/hlwxzbg/201601/P020160122469130059846.pdf, 2017-03-22.Universal Journal of Management 6(9): 304-317, 2018(2) What are the problems in Chinese university students’ email and Q-zone records archiving?(3) In university students’ email and Q-zone records preservation, who should be responsible for providing necessary guidance and suggestion? What are the relationships among these parties? What responsibilities does each party have?The remainder of this article is organized as follows: first, a brief review of existing studies is presented; the methods used for data collection and data analysis are introduced; the research results and a discussion of their implications are presented; and, the main findings of this study are summarized and possible areas for future research identified
In 2002, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a major report on the use of the Internet by college students and how they have incorporated it into their education and social lifestyles (Jones, 2002)
Besides the investigation results of university students’ awareness and behavior of personal digital archiving in E-mail or Q-zone, we interviewed 8 information professionals to know something about the stakeholders of personal digital archiving and the responsibilities of each of them
Summary
As the widespread usage of the internet and digital products (e.g. computers, smartphones), the proportion of Chinese Internet Development. 2016-01-22, http://www.cnnic.net.cn/hlw fzyj/hlwxzbg/201601/P020160122469130059846.pdf, 2017-03-22.Universal Journal of Management 6(9): 304-317, 2018(2) What are the problems in Chinese university students’ email and Q-zone records archiving?(3) In university students’ email and Q-zone records preservation, who should be responsible for providing necessary guidance and suggestion? What are the relationships among these parties? What responsibilities does each party have?The remainder of this article is organized as follows: first, a brief review of existing studies is presented; the methods used for data collection and data analysis are introduced; the research results and a discussion of their implications are presented; and, the main findings of this study are summarized and possible areas for future research identified. As the widespread usage of the internet and digital products (e.g. computers, smartphones), the proportion of Chinese Internet Development. Universal Journal of Management 6(9): 304-317, 2018. (2) What are the problems in Chinese university students’ email and Q-zone records archiving?. (3) In university students’ email and Q-zone records preservation, who should be responsible for providing necessary guidance and suggestion? What are the relationships among these parties? It is worth mentioning that in this study, the term “archiving” was used broadest context to refer to any activities to save (or not delete) contents stored in personal email and Q-zone
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