scholarly journals You’ve got a friend in me: How social networks and mobile phones facilitate healthcare access among marginalised groups in rural Thailand and Lao PDR

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 105156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco J. Haenssgen ◽  
Nutcha Charoenboon ◽  
Giacomo Zanello
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Lao Pdr ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Rural Thailand

scholarly journals Informal mobile phone use by marginalised groups in a plural health system to bridge healthcare gaps in Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
pp. 026666692093299
Author(s):  
Steven Sam
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Marginalised Groups

The possibility to use mobile phones to provide affordable, effective and accessible healthcare solutions has continued to attract significant investments in the application of formal m-health schemes in Africa. However, while the formal m-health schemes in Africa are limited and benefited only a handful of people, a majority of individuals are using their own phones to create an informal m-health ecosystem in an attempt to bridge primary healthcare access gaps. This paper draws on qualitative data from a four-year (2012-2016) anthropological study involving marginalised groups in Sierra Leone to document these health-seeking practices along with the benefits and challenges they create in a complex plural health system. It argues that the informal integration of mobile phones into the plural health system offers opportunities for marginalised individuals to search and secure primary healthcare of their choices, but poor network connectivity, high out of pocket maintenance costs, low digital literacy skills, and the lack of policy to streamline and regulate the practices can promise the effectiveness of the informal m-health system. It concludes by offering suggestions for addressing these challenges in the Sierra Leone context.

scholarly journals Personal cell phones among children: attitudes of parents of primary school pupils

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
D Austys ◽  
A Sprudzanaitė ◽  
R Arlauskas ◽  
R Stukas
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
School Children ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
P Value ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Primary School Pupils

Abstract Background A large number of primary school children have personal smartphones which enable them to communicate with lots of people and use social networks. However, social networking should not be accessible to primary school pupils due to existing age restrictions. Studies show that cell phones can be used to send offensive or sexual content to children or by them. This might have long-term effects on child's mental health and even provoke suicidal thoughts. While parents are able to control many aspects of children's life, we aimed to disclose parental attitudes towards use of mobile phones among children. Methods A total number of 619 parents of primary school children from middle-sized town of Lithuania participated in this study. Parents anonymously expressed their opinion to questions about personal cell phones usage among children. Distribution of participants was assessed according to social and demographic characteristics. Results Most of the respondents (79.8%) indicated that use of mobile phones might be harmful to children's health, 56.0% indicated that their children use social networks and every second child was registered by their parents (49.5%). Minority of the respondents (8.1%) thought that children (including children from other families) receive messages from strangers and communicate with them (2.1%). Similarly, very few of the respondents thought that children receive offensive (15.0%) or sexual (4.8%) content. Younger and lower educated parents registered their children to social networks more frequently (p-value less than 0.05). Lower educated parents more frequently indicated that offensive or sexual content can reach children via smartphones (p-value less than 0.05). Conclusions Majority of parents of primary school children thought that cell phones might be harmful to children's health but most of them did not pay attention to threats such as communication with strangers or transmission of sexual content. Key messages Only minority of parents of primary school children indicated communication with strangers or transmission of sexual content as threats induced by use of smartphones among children. Regardless that lower educated parents indicated awareness of content-related threats to children more frequently they registered their children to social networks more frequently as well.

scholarly journals Analysis of parameters on author attribution of Spanish electronic short texts

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Authorship Attribution ◽  
Classification Algorithms ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Forensic Linguistics ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Linguistic Feature ◽  
Recent Advances

Forensic Linguistics is the analysis of the language which is related to law, either as evidence or as legal discourse. Authorship attribution is the task of identifying the author of a document when the language is used as evidence in a courtroom, so it will be of interest to police investigators and the wider judicial process. Recent advances in Forensic Linguistics are related to the analysis of texts coming from emails, social networks and messages coming from mobile phones. This work continues previous research and explores how different classification algorithms, the size of the text and the type of linguistic feature used in authorship attribution may affect the results in the authorship attribution of Spanish short messages on online forums. Important differences in precision have been assessed when varying both the size of the texts investigated and the algorithms used for classification.

Mobility and the mobile: A study of adolescent migrants and their use of the mobile phone

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmele Mendoza Pérez ◽  
Marta Morgade Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Unaccompanied Foreign Minors ◽  
Migrant Adolescents

In this article, we explore the day-to-day importance of digital media, specifically the use of mobile phones in the lives of migrant minors—also known as unaccompanied foreign minors—in juvenile residential centres. For this study, we employed a general ethnographic methodology and, in particular, a workshop based on different artistic techniques that encouraged the young people involved to become active participants, committed from the start in the generation of the material to be used for the analysis of their daily practices. This approach emerged from the recognition of the importance for these young people to feel included and connected. Migrant adolescents take refuge in their mobile devices to participate in the youth microculture, both locally and globally. In addition, they are able to access different social networks that allow them to play out the personas they wish to adopt. Finally, we recognise the importance of digital media in allowing them to maintain close and affective relationships with their relatives, fellow citizens, and communities in their country of origin.

scholarly journals Mobile phones in young people everyday life: case study with Portuguese and Brazilian students

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 35850
Author(s):  
João Canavilhas ◽  
Eduardo Pellanda ◽  
Valeriano Piñeiro-Naval ◽  
Ana Cecília B. Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Penetration Rate ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Brazilian Students ◽  
Almost All

Mobile phones have become commonplace everyday objects in almost all societies regardless of their development stage. The presence of these devices has become a constant on any latitude, as shown by the penetration rate figures for 2018: 65.9%. These numbers, already surprising on their own, reach even higher values among young people. Thus, this paper studies the use of mobile phones, in particular smartphones, by young Portuguese and Brazilian university students. For this purpose, an app that registered all the uses made by the youngsters in their mobile devices, was employed. This methodology allows data collection in a daily context without the participants feeling controlled. A total of 317,938 interactions, registered in the participants devices, shows that the main use given to these devices is as a platform for access to social networks, followed by the sending of messages and the variable “second uses” of the device (watch, calendar, camera, calendar and calculator). Although this is a study in progress, at this stage it is safe to state that the data confirm previous studies (FORTUNATI; TAIPALE, 2014) in which smartphones assert themselves as a verbal written communication platform in opposition to their genesis based on orality.***Telefones celulares no cotidiano dos jovens: um estudo de caso com estudantes portugueses e brasileiros***Os telefones celulares se tornaram objetos comuns do dia-a-dia em quase todas as sociedades, independentemente do estágio de desenvolvimento. A presença desses dispositivos tornou-se constante em qualquer latitude, como mostra o índice de penetração em 2018: 65,9%. Esses números, já surpreendentes por si só, atingem valores ainda mais altos entre os jovens. Assim, este artigo estuda o uso de telefones celulares, em particular smartphones, por jovens estudantes universitários portugueses e brasileiros. Para isso, foi desenvolvido um aplicativo que registrava todos os usos feitos pelos jovens em seus dispositivos móveis. Essa metodologia permite a coleta de dados em um contexto diário sem que os participantes se sintam controlados. Um total de 317.938 interações, registradas nos dispositivos participantes, mostra que o principal uso dado a esses dispositivos é como plataforma de acesso às redes sociais, seguido pelo envio demensagens e pela variável “segundos usos” do dispositivo (observe, calendário, câmera, calendário e calculadora). Embora este seja um estudo em andamento, é possível afirmar que os dados confirmam estudos anteriores (FORTUNATI; TAIPALE, 2014) em que os smartphones se afirmam como uma plataforma de comunicação verbal escrita em oposição à sua gênese baseada na oralidade.Palavras-chave: Estudos de Mídia. Tecnologia móvel. Estudos de comunicação.

scholarly journals Narušavanje pravopisne norme u ranojezičnoj neformalnoj komunikaciji (na primjeru SMS poruka i internetske društvene mreže Facebook)

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Slavica Vrsaljko ◽  
Tea Ljubimir
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Spelling Errors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Almost All

SMS messaging and communicating on social networks are increasingly widespread forms of informal communication. Mobile phones have almost all, and in addition they open profiles on the Internet social network, corresponding in this way with their peers. In writing messages is being recorded a large number of spelling errors, most of errors are those whose adoption is foreseen in the the lower grades of elementary school. In order to determine the level of mastery of linguistic norms, the message will be analysed as well as comments from the social networks of fourth-grade students.

scholarly journals Crisis 2.0 in the Australian Context

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Julie Willems
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
The Face ◽  
Qualitative Responses

In the face of disasters and emergencies, Internet-enabled mobile phones (or ‘Smartphones'), coupled with Web 2.0 social networks are swiftly becoming not only a means to personally chronicle the events being experienced, but are also being used to disseminate information, educate and inform civilians. The aim of the i-Survive project was to investigate the use of mobile social media during recent Australian disaster and emergency situations. Participants in the pilot study were representatives of key community stakeholders in the crisis event. The quantitative and qualitative findings of from the study's survey questionnaire will be discussed in this paper. Participants' extended qualitative responses to the follow up interviews and the digital artefacts contributed will be detailed in two separate papers.

scholarly journals Twitter and weather services

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 239-243
Author(s):  
Santiago Gaztelumendi ◽  
Maialen Martija ◽  
Olatz Principe
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
General Public ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
The World

Abstract. This work focuses on the analysis of the use of Twitter by different weather services around the world. During the last few years the availability of mobile phones connected to the Internet has become a global reality. Likewise, the use of different social networks has been popularized and extended with different purposes including social communication. In this context most meteorological weather services have been using some of these social tools in order to improve their services for the general public and specific users. Twitter is a social tool that enables users to post messages (tweets) of up to 280 characters (up to 140 before November 2017), supporting a wide variety of communicative practices. Twitter is an opportunity not only to spread messages without intermediaries, but also interact in real time with users. Here we present a study of different aspects related to the use of Twitter in diverse weather services worldwide and their evolution during the year 2016.

USING OF LSTM NETWORKS IN SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF DOCUMENTS IN KAZAKH LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 366-370
Author(s):  
N.K. Kadyrbek ◽  
◽  
М.Е. Mansurova ◽  
М.Е. Kyrgyzbayeva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
User Reviews ◽  
Average Value ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Neural Network

Due to the growing trust in information in social media resources, interest in the field of sentiment analysis is growing. Because sentiment analysis is one of the main technologies for monitoring the opinions of millions of users of social networks. The article discusses the use of LSTM networks in the analysis of the tonality of texts in the Kazakh language. For training the neural network, 1000 user reviews of mobile phones were used. The experiments were carried out in two ways: in the first case, preprocessing of the analyzed reviews was carried out, in the second case, the preprocessing was not carried out. The average value of the metric for assessing the quality of the pre-processed model reached 80%. This indicator is 11% higher than for a model trained on data without preprocessing. The results of the study allowed us to conclude that the preprocessing of the texts improves the quality of the model.

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