Life transitions and online health communities

Massimi, Michael; Bender, Jackie; Witteman, Holly O.; Ahmed, Osman Hassan

doi:10.1145/2531602.2531622

Cited by 69 publications

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“…Therefore, we recommend that practitioners should look into supporting the visibility of progress and skills in community music (perhaps with technology as well). This implication resonates with some studies in HCI (e.g., Lindley & Wallace, 2015;Massimi, Bender, Witteman, & Ahmed, 2014;Taylor et al, 2017), which argue that demonstrating one's expertise and supporting knowledge sharing in social participation are especially important for healthy and active ageing.…”

Section: Leveraging Social Participation Through the Practice Lenssupporting

confidence: 76%

Understanding Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music for Active Ageing

Mao

Blackwell

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2020

Interacting With Computers

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An unfortunate tendency in previous HCI research has been to give the impression that it aims to ‘fix the problem’ of human ageing, suggesting a ‘deficit’ model of ageing or a ‘prosthetic’ model of technology. We conducted diary-aided interviews to investigate how technology use is situated in active, healthy older adults’ meaningful participation in community music. We argue that recognizing community music practices and technology use as situated action provides opportunities to grasp the subtleties of social participation and design for active ageing. We identified technology-mediated music practices, such as music sharing and revisiting, and how they evolved through the reconfiguration of connections between technology, competence, and forward-facing identities. We found that identity development, via routes such as exercising control, role transitions, and social spaces, had psychological significance and implications for active ageing. We explore how HCI leverages the perspective of active ageing and might facilitate older adults’ meaningful participation enhanced by technologies.

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Section: Leveraging Social Participation Through the Practice Lenssupporting

confidence: 76%

Understanding Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music for Active Ageing

Mao

Blackwell

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2020

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“…The proposed model suggests an evolving view towards user's decision making of using SNSs. The behavior path describes how an active stage changes to an exodus stage (Dutot & Mosconi, ; Massimi, Bender, Witteman, & Ahmed, ). Specifically, we propose that means (i.e., SNS products’ attributes and their consequences) stimulate a disengagement process from an active stage to a lurking stage, and sequentially ends (i.e., values induced by means) modulate an abandon process from a lurking stage to a final exodus stage.…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding the determinants and dynamic process of user exodus in social networking sites: Evidence from Kaixin001

Zhao

Peng

et al. 2017

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Understanding the factors and mechanism that affect the users’ abandon behaviors is necessary for the sustained use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs). This study focuses on a special SNS discontinuance phenomenon—user exodus. Compared to individual discontinuance behavior studied in prior research, the SNS user exodus possesses its own characteristics: a huge magnitude of users abandon a given SNS product in a very short time. Given the fatal blow of exodus to SNS providers, this exploratory research seeks to unravel why and how the SNS user exodus occurs. Specifically, we conducted a mixed‐method research combining laddering interview and network analysis. Drawing on the means‐end chain theory, laddering interviews were first used to collect data from discontinuers of a Chinese SNS, Kaixin001, which has experienced a severe user dropout. Then we identified various factors triggering user exodus by content analysis. Last, network analysis was employed to establish the connections between various attributes, consequences, and values. The results showed that user exodus in SNS is strongly related to three types of value: functional, affective, and social value. More important, we also emphasized the dynamics process of exodus by highlighting the role of lurking. Possible contributions and implications of our findings are discussed.

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“…Digital environments can be important for meaningmaking (Lloyd et al, 2017;Ruthven, 2019), and thus separate online spaces can be safe environments for a person to try out a new identity before claiming it in their daily life (Haimson, 2018). Often, separate online spaces enable people to find community, support, resources, and information throughout their life transition and the subsequent readjustment phase (Massimi, Bender, Witteman, & Ahmed, 2014;Pohjanen & Kortelainen, 2016).…”

Section: Social Media Information Sharing Behaviors Surrounding Life Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The major life events taxonomy: Social readjustment, social media information sharing, and online network separation during times of life transition

Haimson

Carter

Corvite

et al. 2021

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When people experience major life changes, this often impacts their self-presentation, networks, and online behavior in substantial ways. To effectively study major life transitions and events, we surveyed a large U.S. sample (n = 554) to create the Major Life Events Taxonomy, a list of 121 life events in 12 categories. We then applied this taxonomy to a second large U.S. survey sample (n = 775) to understand on average how much social readjustment each event required, how likely each event was to be shared on social media with different types of audiences, and how much online network separation each involved. We found that social readjustment is positively correlated with sharing on social media, with both broad audiences and close ties as well as in online spaces separate from one's network of known ties. Some life transitions involve high levels of sharing with both separate audiences and broad audiences on social media, providing evidence for what previous research has called social media as social transition machinery. Researchers can use the Major Life Events Taxonomy to examine how people's life transition experiences relate to their behaviors, technology use, and health and well-being outcomes.

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Life transitions and online health communities

Cited by 69 publications

References 40 publications

Understanding Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music for Active Ageing

Understanding Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music for Active Ageing

Understanding the determinants and dynamic process of user exodus in social networking sites: Evidence from Kaixin001

The major life events taxonomy: Social readjustment, social media information sharing, and online network separation during times of life transition

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