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empowerment at the strategic level, defining rural libraries as community centers at the functional
level, being sensitive to local contexts in technological design and to prioritize vulnerable groups
in service supply.

The imbalance of mobile phone literacy and regulatory behavior among
different contexts

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HAN Leiqian & YAN Hui〇
The research questions to be answered in this paper include: What differences are there in the
mobile phone literacy of high school teachers between two different contexts of daily life and work
tasks? How do they adjust the imbalance of literacy between the contexts? What factors drive the
literacy regulating behavior?
The authors adopt the mixed methods by combining ethnographic field study and diary interview.
The data collection methods consist of in-depth interviews, tracking records, and participatory
observation. The data analysis process is composed of non-parametric testing, grounded theory
and case analysis. This paper compares the performances of mobile phone operation literacy,
information literacy and strategic literacy in two contexts of daily life and work tasks, and
describes the user’s mobile phone literacy regulating behavior and its influencing factors through
case data.
The core research findings are as follows: 1) Work task context has higher requirements
for mobile phone operation literacy and information literacy on middle school teachers, and
more complex requirements for strategic literacy compared with daily life context. There are
significant differences between mobile phone operation literacy and strategic literacy, but not
in information literacy. 2) Middle school teachers have different levels of literacy imbalances
in the face of new needs, especially work task contexts. The regulatory behaviors are divided
into six categories: mutual exploration, independent exploration, trial exploration, help-seeking,
passive learning and giving-up. Among them, independent exploration, mutual exploration,
trial exploration and help-seeking are active regulating behaviors; passive learning and giving-
up are passive regulating behaviors. In addition, the two behaviors of satisfying the status quo
and stagnation are unregulated behaviors. 3) The user’s literacy imbalance regulating behavior
is mainly affected by the three factors of emotional characteristics, knowledge level, and social
support.
Other groups of professional people except middle school teachers need to be explored. The
operability and integrity of the classification of mobile phone literacy need to be further improved,
especially the catalytic effect of strategic literacy on operation literacy and information literacy. It

* Correspondence should be addressed to YAN Hui, Email: hyanpku@ruc.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0002-3649-1601.