At Home with Media Technology

Church, Kate; Weight, Jenny; Berry, Marsha; MacDonald, Hugh A.

doi:10.2752/175174210x12785760502171

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“…Os/as adolescentes participantes no estudo ainda percecionam que, caso não existissem tecnologias, a sua rotina diária teria que ser reorganizada, pois sem o acesso a tecnologias, não poderiam contactar facilmente os pais ou outras pessoas, sendo necessário um planeamento prévio do dia. Este dado pode sugerir que as tecnologias, ao estarem incluídas na família, têm um papel importante na organização das suas rotinas (Spigel, 1992 como citado em Church, 2010).…”

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Tecnologias e interação em famílias com adolescente: comunicação entre mães e filhos

Martinho

Pires²

2017

R Est Inv Psico y Educ

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ResumoNa adolescência, a interação entre adolescentes e pais assume uma nova dimensão. A busca pela autonomia, a construção da identidade e os pares adquirem grande importância. Acresce que o desenvolvimento e utilização de tecnologias, sendo estas necessárias às rotinas das pessoas, tornaram-se suscetíveis de influenciar a interação familiar, particularmente, a comunicação. Mediante estudo qualitativo e realização de entrevista semiestruturada analisou-se a influência das tecnologias na comunicação em famílias com adolescentes. Participaram no estudo 13 mães e respetivos filhos/as. Dos dados sujeitos a análise de conteúdo concluiu-se que as tecnologias influenciam a comunicação entre mães e adolescentes, facilitando-a ou dificultando-a. Palavras-chave: interação familiar, adolescência, comunicação, tecnologia. AbstractIn adolescence, the interaction between adolescents and parents assumes a new dimension. The pursuit of autonomy, the self-identity development and the peers acquire a great importance. Furthermore, the increasingly development and widespread use of technologies, which are necessary to people's dailylife routine, became susceptible to influence family interaction, particularly, communication. Through a qualitative study and a semistructured interview, the influence of technologies in family communication in families with adolescents was analyzed. Thirteen mothers and their offspring participated in the study. From the data subjected to content analysis, it was concluded that technologies do influence communication between mothers and adolescents, whether facilitating or hindering it.

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“…Não obstante, as tecnologias são naturalmente externas à família, mas atualmente estão inseridas no contexto familiar, verificando-se uma presença acentuada de dispositivos tecnológicos que se caracterizam por se terem tornado indispensáveis e intrínsecos à rotina contemporânea (Church, Weight, Berry & MacDonald, 2010).…”

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Tecnologias e interação em famílias com adolescente: comunicação entre mães e filhos

Martinho

Pires²

2017

R Est Inv Psico y Educ

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“…The emergence of the internet and social networking platforms has added the new media to the traditional media as channels of communication in the family. Church et al (2010) noted that one of the main impacts of the new media technologies on families and family businesses is the introduction of a digital divide between those who know and those who do not know how to act in a digital environment (Aarsand, 2007). Such divide is created and sustained through interaction in a social network (McGrath, 2012).…”

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The Role of Social Network in Family Business Diversification: Evidence from South Eastern Nigeria

Agbim¹,

Igwe

2019

IJIKM

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Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to investigate if participation in business association’s programs through the traditional and new media platforms influences family businesses in South Eastern Nigeria to diversify into similar or different businesses. Background: Before the advances in information and communication technology, businesses were carried on via the traditional media. The application of these advances has changed the way business communications and transactions are conducted globally in both family and non-family businesses. Businesses are adapting to today’s turbulent environment by opening similar or different businesses in the same or different locations that are hinged on the traditional and new media platforms. Nigerians are largely involved in social network through the traditional (face-to-face contact) and new media (e.g., Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram). Moreover, in spite of the commonplaceness of family businesses in Nigeria, these businesses still experience weak diversiﬁcation, bankruptcy and loss of socio-emotional wealth. Consequent upon the foregoing, this paper specifically investigates if involvement in social network via the traditional media (i.e., participation in business association’s meetings, workshops, seminars) and the new media (i.e., participation in the business association’s interactive sessions on trending business issues through the association’s online social platform like WhatsApp, Twitter), influence family businesses in South Eastern Nigeria to diversify into similar or different businesses. Methodology: The study adopted a qualitative methodology. The qualitative data were generated via interview involving 30 purposively selected businesses from South Eastern Nigeria. This comprises 15 family businesses each that have respectively adopted related and unrelated diversification strategies. Two respondents (i.e., the business owner and a top level manager) each were drawn from the selected businesses. In all, 60 respondents were interviewed. Since the unit of analysis is the family business, the interview transcriptions from all the respondents were subjected to thematic content analysis on the basis of the family businesses. Contribution: Active involvement and participation in all the meetings, discussions, workshops and seminars of the social network via the traditional and new media platforms facilitates the adoption of related or unrelated diversification in family businesses. Moreover, the adoption of similar social network platforms like WhatsApp and Twitter in all the relationships among and between employees and managers, and the transactions of the businesses is one of the key factors for achieving successful related or unrelated diversification in family businesses. Findings: In spite of the risky nature of the business environment, the adoption of related diversification strategies is significantly influenced by resources such as business consultancy services garnered through the traditional and new media platforms of the social network. Also, family businesses that are actively involved in a social network where the actors interact through the traditional and new media are influenced by the resources acquired to consider adopting unrelated diversification. These resources include: better understanding of the nature of business challenges, environments and experiences; and different lines of businesses. Thus, the traditional and new media platforms are complementary in their roles. Recommendations for Practitioners: Family business owner-managers could use the findings to develop related or unrelated strategies for diversifying into existing or new markets. This can be through the localization of manufacturing plant, improvement of product packaging, sitting of sales outlet closer to the consumers, introduction of lower prices for products/services, introduction of new and better ways of service delivery, or development of more compelling promotion strategies. Recommendation for Researchers: As a veritable guide, this study could guide future researchers in the formulation of their objectives, selection of instrument for data collection and respondents, and adoption of method of data analysis. Impact on Society: Successful diversification suggests the establishment of new or more businesses. Consequently, these new or more family businesses are expected to translate to more employment opportunities and by extension reduction in unemployment and poverty rates in the society. Future Research: Further studies should be carried out to enhance the development of family businesses, contribute to the existing literature and ensure the generalization of the findings.

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“…Both Southerton (2006) and Michelson (2005) therefore suggest a shift in focus with respect to time use, looking towards the qualities of time rather than simply its duration (see also Wacjman, 2008). Such strategies potentially draw out the ways in which the introduction of wireless and mobile technologies, and consequent shifting temporal and spatial structures, entails the renegotiation of notions such as togetherness which underpin idealised notions of family (Church, Weight et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper therefore explores this relationship by drawing on empirical materials derived from a recent qualitative study of the role of laptop computers in domestic energy use. The first section of the paper explores salient conceptual frameworks-there is of course a rich vein of work on domestic consumption that has emphasised: the ways in which ICTs both reproduce and contest existing idealised notions of family, home and identity (Attfield, 2000;Church, Weight et al, 2010;Grint and Gill, 1995;Haddon, 1992;Wacjman, 1991); the affective and sensory dimensions of home consumption (Hadjiyanni & Helle, 2010;Olesen, 2010;Pink 2004); and the temporal ordering of the home (Pantzar, 2010;Southerton, 2006;Tolmie, Pycock et al, 2003;Wacjman, 2008). Practice theory has also generated a timely and apposite body of inter-disciplinary work which links everyday domestic practices and the accomplishment of domestic 'standards' with their underlying energy use (Gran-Hansen, 2010;Hinton, 2010;Ropke, 2009aRopke, , 2009bShove, 2003Shove, , 2006Shove and Southerton, 2000;Wilhite, Nakagami et al, 2001).…”

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Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use

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Are we sitting comfortably? Domestic imaginaries, laptop computing practices, and energy use.Word Count: 8,910 (excluding references) AbstractThe considerable literature on domestic consumption practices has tended to focus on either the (re)production and contestation of normative imaginaries, or the links between escalating standards and energy use. Far less has been written which links these related areas together. Accordingly this paper is positioned at the intersection of debates on domestic consumption, energy use and home cultures. Through a qualitative study of laptop use in the home, we illustrate how energy intensive practices such as multi-tasking and alwayson-ness, and changing computer ecologies are intimately bound up with the reproduction of particular domestic imaginaries of family and home. A key insight in this paper is that a purely physiological conception of comfort would fail to fully explain why practices such as multi-tasking and always-on-ness emerge, and thus we theorise comfort as an accomplishment comprised of inseparable temporal, bodily, spatial and material elements. Ultimately we argue here that comfort needs to be understood as a multi-valent imaginary that is itself bound up in broader idealised notions of family and home in order to understand shifting practices, computing ecologies and energy consumption.

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At Home with Media Technology

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Tecnologias e interação em famílias com adolescente: comunicação entre mães e filhos

Tecnologias e interação em famílias com adolescente: comunicação entre mães e filhos

The Role of Social Network in Family Business Diversification: Evidence from South Eastern Nigeria

Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use

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