How Can Researchers Make Sense of the Issues Involved in Collecting and Interpreting Online and Offline Data?

Orgad, Shani

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“…No caso deste estudo, é importante destacar que nem sempre a ida a campo envolve a inserção total do pesquisador na comunidade virtual. Orgadi (2009) texto lido, contendo verbos como "gostar", "amar" e "adorar", e adjetivos como "lindo", "legal", "divertido" e "interessante". Um exemplo é o comentário abaixo, feito na matéria "Como nascem os planetas", do tema "Astronomia": Durante a observação inicial, encontramos poucos comentários negativos, alguns deles contendo expressões como "muito idiota", "muito chato", "não gostei", "quanta besteira" e "quanta desinformação".…”

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Divulgação científica na internet: um estudo de caso de comentários feitos por leitores em textos da Ciência Hoje das Crianças Online

Rocha

Massarani

2016

Alexandria: R. Educ. Ci. Tec.

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Resumo. Este artigo pretende compreender a percepção de internautas sobre textos de divulgação científica publicados em uma página eletrônica. Em particular, analisamos os comentários feitos em textos publicados no site da revista Ciência Hoje das Crianças (CHC Online). Realizamos um estudo de caso de 351 comentários em 14 textos publicados em 2013. Utilizamos metodologia mista, combinando o método qualitativo netnografia com o método quantitativo mineração de textos. Os resultados mostram que a maioria dos leitores que publicaram comentários tem visões positivas sobre os textos da CHC Online e muitos relacionam o conteúdo do texto com situações do cotidiano. Identificamos comentários que indicam que as crianças utilizam os textos da CHC Online como fonte de informação para tarefas escolares. Observamos também a presença de comentários feitos por leitores adultos -alguns deles, professores -, indicando que esses fazem parte do público leitor do site. Abstract. This paper intends to understand the perception of Internet users about science communication texts published on a website. Particularly, we analyzed comments made on texts published on Ciência Hoje das Crianças (CHC Online) magazine website. We made a case study of 351 comments posted on 14 texts published in 2013. We used mixed methodology, mixing the qualitative method netnography with the quantitative method text mining. The results show that most of the readers who published comments have positive opinions about CHC Online texts and many of them relate the text content with daily situations. We identified comments that indicate that children use CHC Online texts as a source of information to homework were identified. We also observed the presence of comments made by adult readers -some of them, teachers -indicating that those make part of the readership. Palavras-chave: divulgação científica, internet, crianças, netnografia, mineração de textos Keywords: science communication, internet, kids, netnography, text mining IntroduçãoUm estudo feito pelo Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil em 2013 mostrou que, das 2.261 crianças com idade entre nove e 17 anos entrevistadas em diferentes regiões do país, 77% têm acesso à Internet (COMITÊ GESTOR DA INTERNET, 2014 (LIMA, 1995). Quando lhes são oferecidas explicações científicas, no entanto, esses conceitos previamente concebidos sofrem modificações e as crianças adquirem novas concepções sobre temas científicos (GOUVÊA, 2005). Tais explicações provêm não somente da aprendizagem formal em sala de aula, mas também da divulgação científica, que ocorre por meios como museus, jornais, televisão e, mais recentemente, Internet.Assim, é importante discutir acerca do que pensam os internautas sobre o modo com que esses sites transmitem seus conteúdos. Além disso, textos de divulgação científica se mostram cada vez mais importantes para a disseminação e aprendizagem de conceitos de ciência (MONTEIRO et al., 2003;TERRAZZAN;GABANA, 2003;MARCHI et al., 2012;ROCHA, 2012 É tempo de mudanças para a universidade, nosso modelo ...

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Divulgação científica na internet: um estudo de caso de comentários feitos por leitores em textos da Ciência Hoje das Crianças Online

Rocha

Massarani

2016

Alexandria: R. Educ. Ci. Tec.

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“…We started by using the publicly available issuecrawler software (www.issuecrawler.net, Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) to map out the network of MS-related websites available online and to identify websites, personal blogs and patient forums for further analysis. 114 We found that, in the UK, the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) is a key source of information to which many other websites link. Large charities such as the MS Society and Citizens Advice are prominent, but smaller charities, such as the MS Trust and the MS Resource Centre, also have a strong online presence.…”

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Examining the role of patients’ experiences as a resource for choice and decision-making in health care: a creative, interdisciplinary mixed-method study in digital health

Ziébland

Powell

Briggs

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Programme Grants Appl Res

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BackgroundTraditional health information has been based on facts and figures and not on patient experience (PEx). Websites featuring people’s accounts of their experiences of health and illness are popular as a source of information, support and much else. However, there are concerns that experiential information on the internet might have adverse effects on health.AimsTo find out whether, when and how the NHS should incorporate PEx into online health information and elucidate the mechanisms through which PEx might influence health, develop a tool to measure the effects of online PEx, explore how PEx is used, and investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a randomised controlled trial of online PEx.MethodsMixed methods, including a conceptual literature review, qualitative secondary data analysis, the development of a new questionnaire, online ethnography, observational and experimental studies in an internet café environment, and finally feasibility trials to compare new websites based on PEx with those based on facts and figures.ResultsThe review concluded that online PEx could affect health outcomes through seven domains (information, support, affecting relationships, providing ideas on how to use health services, influencing behaviour change, learning to tell the story and visualising illness). We developed the e-Health Impact Questionnaire, which demonstrates good psychometric properties and is suitable for use across different health groups and various styles of online information. Online ethnographic studies found three types of PEx on multiple sclerosis (MS) platforms: accounts of ‘living with MS’, self-expression and creativity, and experiences of health care and treatment. Observational and laboratory-based methods included studies of how people find and use PEx to inform health choices. We developed a three-stage model (gating, the engagement loop and outcomes) which guided the development of six prototype multimedia websites featuring either experiential information (intervention) or factual information (comparator) for three exemplar health issues. We evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of a trial of the prototype PEx websites, comparing self-report and process measures with a comparator. In the three conditions we randomised 87 (smoking cessation), 148 (asthma), and 42 (caring for someone with MS) participants. At final (2-week) follow-up, retention rates were 75%, 82% and 86%, for smoking cessation, asthma and MS carers, respectively. Usage of the allocated websites was low. The median number of logins to the websites over the 2-week period was two, two and four; the median number of page views was 10, 15 and 27.5, respectively, with a median total duration on site of 9 minutes, 17 minutes and 31.5 minutes respectively. There were no reported adverse events or harms. The qualitative interviews with 30 trial participants found that the trial methods were acceptable and not burdensome and that preferences for combinations of different types of information were both idiosyncratic and dependent on timing and need.LimitationsThis programme used a pragmatic, mixed-methods approach, in which we adapted some standard approaches (e.g. realist review). The conceptual review provided a framework for the whole programme but did not draw on a single overarching theoretically informed approach. Instead, we used relevant theory and methods from the work package leads, who represented a range of disciplines.ConclusionsOnline PEx is not seen as an alternative to facts, or to care from a health professional, but is used in addition to other sources of information, support and expression. This programme of work indicates how the sharing of online PEx may benefit people, and how this can be measured. A randomised controlled trial is feasible but an allocated ‘exposure’ to a ‘dose of information’ is far from from how online experiences are shared in everyday life. Future work evaluating online health interventions which incorporate personal experiences should aim to reflect ‘natural’ use of the internet and might include online ethnography and offline interviews. Studies might explore how and why people use online sources of experience-based health information, and the effects on subsequent behaviour and health and social outcomes in different conditions. Future intervention research evaluating online health interventions should examine and explain issues of engagement and use, and seek to identify how to increase engagement.Trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN29549695.FundingThis project was funded by the Programme Grants for Applied Research programme and will be published in full inProgramme Grants for Applied Research; Vol. 4, No. 17. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.

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“…The internet is networked and hyperlinked. The 'online' is also intimately linked to the 'offline': many scholars in communication studies have argued that the apparent separation between online and offline, or virtual and real, no longer reflects how the internet is experienced, if it ever did (Baym, 2009;Orgad, 2009). The multi-sited trend in ethnography also applies to ethnographic examinations that include internet mediated space (Hine, 2008).…”

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“PMA Sounds Fun”: Negotiating Drug Discourses Online

Barratt

Allen

Lenton

2014

Substance Use & Misuse

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In 2007, a young woman, Annabel Catt, died after consuming a capsule sold as 'ecstasy' that contained para-methoxyamphetamine (PMA). In this paper, we describe how this death was depicted in online drug-user communities and illustrate how the meanings of drug use are negotiated in online settings. News articles, public online discussions, and online fieldwork formed the data. This paper demonstrates how dominant drug discourses may be resisted by drug users, drawing on theories of health resistance and Kane Race's concept of counterpublic health. Online environments may offer ways of engaging people who use drugs that acknowledge both pleasure and safety.

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How Can Researchers Make Sense of the Issues Involved in Collecting and Interpreting Online and Offline Data?

Cited by 76 publications

References 20 publications

Divulgação científica na internet: um estudo de caso de comentários feitos por leitores em textos da Ciência Hoje das Crianças Online

Divulgação científica na internet: um estudo de caso de comentários feitos por leitores em textos da Ciência Hoje das Crianças Online

Examining the role of patients’ experiences as a resource for choice and decision-making in health care: a creative, interdisciplinary mixed-method study in digital health

“PMA Sounds Fun”: Negotiating Drug Discourses Online

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