Toward Meaningful Connectivity: Using Multilevel Communication Research to Reframe Digital Inequality

Katz, Vikki S.; González, Carmen

doi:10.1111/jcom.12214

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“…We conducted a total of 48 individual interviews: 24 with the parents (in Spanish), and 24 with the children (in English). The V1 methodology was adapted from Katz and Gonzalez's (2016) in-home media studies and Foss et al's (2012) and Foss et al (2013) search interviews. We used a semistructured interview protocol to focus on the study's research goals while allowing for more nuanced themes to emerge (Lindlof & Taylor, 2012).…”

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Intergenerational Online Health Information Searching and Brokering: Framing Health Literacy as a Family Asset

González

Bollinger

Yip

et al. 2020

Health Communication

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Latino populations are disproportionately impacted by health disparities and face both connectivity and health literacy challenges. As evidenced by the current global pandemic, access to reliable online healthrelated information and the ability to apply that information is critical to achieving health equity. Through a qualitative study on how Latino families collaborate to access online health resources, this work frames health literacy as a family-level mechanism. Interviews with parent-child dyads combined with online search tasks reveal how families integrate their individual skillsets to obtain, process, and understand online information about illnesses, symptoms, and even medical diagnoses. As they engage in intergenerational online health information searching and brokering, families creatively navigate information and communication technologies (ICTs) to address a range of health needs. Bilingual children help immigrant parents obtain urgent and non-urgent health information needed to care for other family members. When children are tasked with addressing a health need critical to their parent's wellbeing, they collaborate with their parents to obtain, interpret, and apply online health information. Intergenerational online health information searching and brokering thus reveals family-level strengths that can be leveraged to promote both health and digital literacy among marginalized populations.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Intergenerational Online Health Information Searching and Brokering: Framing Health Literacy as a Family Asset

González

Bollinger

Yip

et al. 2020

Health Communication

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“…The difficulties encountered by participants in expressing their views and ideas through the use of ICTs is another well-documented problem, commonly referred to as the 'digital divide'-a term coined to describe the gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' in the Internet age [48]. Scholars have long analyzed the effect of unequal Internet access [48,49]. The work of Robinson et al [50] makes a useful distinction between first-level digital disparities and second-level digital inequalities, with the former signifying accessibility to the Internet, and the latter being related to the skills, participation, and efficacy of the users.…”

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confidence: 99%

Wicked Problems of Smart Cities

2019

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It is often uncritically assumed that, when digital technologies are integrated into the operation of city functions, they inevitably contribute to sustainable urban development. Such a notion rests largely on the belief that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions pave the way for more democratic forms of planning, and that ‘smart’ technological devices result in a range of environmental benefits, e.g., energy efficiency and the mitigation of global warming. Drawing on the scientific literature that deals with ‘smart cities’, we here elaborate on how both propositions fail to consider drawbacks that could be characterized as ‘wicked’, i.e., problems that lack simplistic solutions and straightforward planning responses, and which often come about as ‘management surprises’, as a byproduct of achieving sustainability. We here deal with problems related to public choice constraints, ‘non-choice default technologies’ and the costs of automation for human learning and resilience. To avoid undemocratic forms of planning and too strong a dependence on non-choice default technologies, e.g., smart phones, we recommend that planners and policy makers safeguard redundancy in public-choice options by maintaining a wide range of alternative choices, including analog ones. Resilience thinking could help planners deal more effectively with the ‘wickedness’ of an increasingly hyper-connected society.

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“…Another third-level divide is the participation divide, not explored in the current study, which considers the socioeconomic divides in digital content creation (Hoffmann, Lutz, & Meckel, 2015;Schradie, 2013). Also notable is the idea of "meaningful connectivity" where individuals possess the skills to engage with technology to be able to address everyday goals and concerns (Katz & Gonzalez, 2016). 2. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations =AM 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient 4. http://www.katypearce.net/facebook-in-armenia-azerbaijanand-georgia/ 5. http://www.katypearce.net/march-2014-facebook-ad-suggestions-at-facebook-use-in-armenia-azerbaijan-and-georgia/ 6. http://journalistuss.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/odnoklassnikivs-facebook/ 7. http://www.dreamgrow.com/social-media-in-russia/ 8. http://vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/ 9. http://www.banman.am/2016/01/social-networks-in-armeniajan-2015.html 10. http://www.banman.am/2013/12/social-media-in-armeniadecember-2013.html 11. http://www.katypearce.net/march-2014-facebook-ad-suggestions-at-facebook-use-in-armenia-azerbaijan-and-georgia/ 12. http://www.katypearce.net/facebook-in-armenia-march-2016/…”

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Somewhat Separate and Unequal: Digital Divides, Social Networking Sites, and Capital-Enhancing Activities

Pearce

Rice

2017

Social Media + Society

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There was initially great hope that the Internet would provide a virtual space where inequalities could dissolve and individuals could interact with others across social, temporal, and spatial boundaries. Decades after the public began using the Internet, we now know that inequalities are easily replicated online. Nonetheless, there are opportunities for decreasing digital divides, such as engaging in various online activities that provide opportunities for enhancing social capital. This study considers the tension between the digital divide nature and the capital-enhancing nature of social networking sites (SNSs). The basic argument is that if (a) there are digital divide differences in use of those different SNSs, then (b) using different SNSs, and (c) using different activities on those SNSs, may foster different potentials for capital enhancement (CE), and (d) purported benefits from social capital, which could (e) reinforce existing inequalities, or (f) reduce the potential for reducing them. This argument is reflected in two primary research questions: First, does usage of SNSs in general and two distinct SNSs in particular reflect basic digital divides? Second, are there subsequent divides in usage of CE SNS activities across these two sites? Digital Divide-Concept and Influences The digital divide is a gap between people (or organizations, social groups, or geopolitical entities) in their communication technology awareness, adoption or ownership, use, and/

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Toward Meaningful Connectivity: Using Multilevel Communication Research to Reframe Digital Inequality

Cited by 61 publications

References 56 publications

Intergenerational Online Health Information Searching and Brokering: Framing Health Literacy as a Family Asset

Intergenerational Online Health Information Searching and Brokering: Framing Health Literacy as a Family Asset

Wicked Problems of Smart Cities

Somewhat Separate and Unequal: Digital Divides, Social Networking Sites, and Capital-Enhancing Activities

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