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This article explores one question: what does Internet searching have
to do with personal development? Personal development means that
individuals improve their own abilities, skills, knowledge or other
qualities by working on them. The paper reports on a qualitative case
study, in which a single participant was interviewed and her Web
searches observed. Information search strategies seemed to form a
spectrum of developmental sophistication. Four major types of
relationship were found: a) the Internet in the context of
development; b) development in the context of the Internet; c)
development affecting Internet use; and, d) Internet use affecting
development. There were some informational phenomena which exhibited
regression, the converse of development.
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