Topic
Hobby
About: Hobby is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 225 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1898 citations. The topic is also known as: public sport & pastime.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a set of ethnographic records of two communities of amateur astronomers, as well as the details of astronomers' instantiations of the hobby, are used to sharpen current conceptualizations of interests and engaged participation and to derive lessons for the design of interest-driven science learning environments.
Abstract: This article seeks to sharpen current conceptualizations of interests and engaged participation, and to derive lessons for the design of interest-driven science learning environments (formal and informal). The empirical basis of the research is a set of ethnographic records of two communities of amateur astronomers, as well as the details of astronomers' instantiations of the hobby. Hobbies are paradigmatic examples of interest-driven practices and thus they offer an excellent window into truly interest-related phenomena and processes. The analysis and data collection followed a grounded theoretical process, which I describe in two parts. First, I comb through the data iteratively and present a theory of persistent engagement in a hobby practice. Based on this theoretical sketch, I then explain how individuals' persistent, interest-based pursuit of amateur astronomy is made possible by 4 structural and process features of the practice, which together afford individuals the ability to continuously tailor t...
162 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: This case study is the first case study of a making and tinkering (or craft) hobby, gourmet cooking, and demonstrates how to explicate and conceptualize information phenomena in serious leisure.
Abstract: Introduction. This paper contributes to what is known about everyday life information seeking within serious leisure. It is the first case study of a making and tinkering (or craft) hobby, gourmet cooking. The central activity of the hobby is described and serves as a context to relate and locate information activities and information resources. Method. In this scientific ethnography, twenty gourmet cooks from Boston and Los Angeles, USA were interviewed in their residences about their pursuit of the hobby and its associated information phenomena. Then, domestic culinary information resources and spaces were documented through a photographic inventory. Analysis. Interview transcripts and field notes were studied for themes through an iterative process of inductive and deductive analysis. A visual analysis process was performed on the photographs. Results. Hands-on cooking takes the form of a nine step episode. Information activities and resources are instrumental, interwoven, and varied across the process. In any cooking episode use and re-use are the prevailing information activities; the hobbyist is an active producer and manager of information; and the recipe is a primary document. Conclusion. The study demonstrates how to explicate and conceptualize information phenomena in serious leisure, and sets up lines of inquiry to explore in future research.
89 citations
1 Jul 2009
TL;DR: In the last fifteen years, domestic hobbies especially needle and paper crafts have been revived and rediscovered in the English-speaking world as discussed by the authors, and needle-and paper-making has been a popular domestic hobby.
Abstract: In the last fifteen years, domestic hobbies especially needle and paper crafts have been revived and rediscovered in the English-speaking world. In the forefront of this renewed interest in old-fas...
86 citations
1 Jan 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the free-time pursuit of a liberal art is both a distinct hobby and a distinct type of serious leisure, and that the knowledge acquired is of primary rather than secondary importance.
Abstract: Theory and research have overlooked a subtype of serious leisure referred to here as the liberal arts hobby, or the systematic and fervent pursuit during free time of knowledge for its own sake. People who take up such a hobby have as their primary goal the acquisition of a broad knowledge and understanding of, for example, one or more arts, sports, foods, languages, cultures, histories, sciences, philosophies, or literary traditions. A similar goal motivates the inveterate followers of current politics. These hobbyists look on the knowledge and understanding they acquire as ends in themselves rather than as background, or means, to involvement in another hobby or in an amateur activity. When compared with the other hobbies and the various amateur activities, the knowledge acquired is of primary rather than secondary importance. The proposition is introduced, explained, and elaborated that the free-time pursuit of a liberal art is both a distinct hobby and a distinct type of serious leisure.
55 citations
TL;DR: For example, in the state of Oregon, the state and local governments have been slow to regulate the spread of hobby farms in the rural-urban fringe and in growing non-metropolitan areas as mentioned in this paper.
52 citations
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| 2026 | 1 |
| 2025 | 59 |
| 2024 | 59 |
| 2023 | 150 |
| 2022 | 230 |
| 2021 | 21 |