Three-dimensional Spatial Theory of Information Life of Deaf-Mute Adolescents:A Perspective of Personal Information World Theory
In the age of digital intelligence,modern information technology has had a profound impact on the information world of adolescents who are hearing or speech impaired.Understanding their information lives can help optimize the information environment of deaf-mute people and increase their sense of well-being.This paper conducts a qualitative study of the information world of deaf-mute adolescents.Through textual interviews with deaf-mute teenagers,in-depth observation of their lives inside and outside the classroom,and semi-structured interviews with teachers in schools for the deaf-mute,it encodes the qualitative data based on the theory of personal information world,and develops a three-dimensional theoretical model of the personal information world of deaf-mute adolescents.This study analyzes the personal information world of deaf-mute teenagers from three dimensions:content,boundary and motivation,and proposes the three dimensions of the model:content-boundary dimension,boundary-motivation dimension and content-motivation dimension.By exploring the peculiarities of the deaf-mute adolescents in terms of information access,information resource accumulation,and information behavior,this study presents a basic framework and behavior pattern of deaf adolescents'cognitive information world,which is helpful to understand the deaf-mute community and their information life more comprehensively and deeply.
digital intelligence eradeaf-mute adolescentspersonal information worldinformation inequality