This is or, indeed, has been – changing. Our present and future use of IT (or ICT or what have you) will clearly not be restricted along the same dimensions as those listed above. IT has moved beyond the work-place and into leisure, entertainment, games and our homes. It has in short moved into our everyday life. My retired father and oldest daughter use it. Use is no longer delineated but seep...

Mobile phones with capabilities such as media capture and location detection have become popular among consumers, and this has made possible the development of location-based mobile annotation sharing applications. The present research investigates the creation of mobile annotations from three perspectives: the recipients of the annotations, the type of content created, and the goals behind cre...

Search engines are often used for leisure related search tasks, to find online shops, games, music, movies, celebrity gossip and even sex. While these activities can be broadly considered as entertainment, I shall focus on discussing the different Sexual Information Needs (SINs) of users. This unexplored area of Information Retrieval (IR) research considers a variety of search tasks related to ...

This study was designed to examine the structural relationships among tourists’ participation motivations, value co-creation process (VCCP), and behavior (VCCB) in terms of in-role extra-role contributions. Based on a comprehensive review literature, motivations were measured with four constructs, including need for uniqueness, self-control, social interaction, leisure entertainment. Research p...

This study aims to determine the impact of social media entertainment on buying decisions via Facebook platform. The research is quasi-experimental and quantitative descriptive. sample size reached 500 active users from Jordanian youth, snowball technique was employed. A questionnaire only tool used collect primary data contains closed-ended questions. Likert five-point scale measures responses...

Studying the spatiotemporal pattern of urban leisure activities helps us to understand development and utilization public space, people’s quality life, happiness index. It has outstanding value for improving rational resource allocation, stimulating vitality, promoting sustainable development. This study aims at discovering distribution patterns behavioral preferences using quantitative technol...

INTRODUCTION Free time in the life of both the disabled and those who are able bodied is the time of leisure, recovery and entertainment. The disabled utilize more energy and strength for everyday functioning compared to the able bodied, therefore, an adequate managing of the leisure time they possess is of great importance. This is confirmed by the latest results of American studies. OBJECTI...

The tourism and leisure industries are currently exploring the potential of new presentation strategies that will maximise the promotional appeal of tourism regions and their main assets, which include a unique landscape and scenery, an impressive cultural heritage, and a wide range of sports facilities and other tourist amenities. Further, publishers of tour guides and maps similarly have expr...

This article develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between young people and city space. More speciŽ cally, our focus concerns what we have termed ‘urban playscapes’—young people’s activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues within the night-time entertainment economy. The paper theoretically and empirically explores three interrelated aspects of these playscapes: p...

case study 18 to 29 years of kurdistan youths theoretical framework of this study is based on theories of rojek, stibens and bourdieu and studies the situation of leisure time among youths as one of the social groups influencing the dynamics of cultural, social and political deal. survey method and questionnaire have been used to collect data and analyzes has been made. the study population con...