scholarly journals Screenomics: A New Approach for Observing and Studying Individuals’ Digital Lives

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilam Ram ◽  
Xiao Yang ◽  
Mu-Jung Cho ◽  
Miriam Brinberg ◽  
Fiona Muirhead ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Hispanic Youth ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Different Content ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This study describes when and how adolescents engage with their fast-moving and dynamic digital environment as they go about their daily lives. We illustrate a new approach— screenomics—for capturing, visualizing, and analyzing screenomes, the record of individuals’ day-to-day digital experiences. Sample includes over 500,000 smartphone screenshots provided by four Latino/Hispanic youth, age 14 to 15 years, from low-income, racial/ethnic minority neighborhoods. Screenomes collected from smartphones for 1 to 3 months, as sequences of smartphone screenshots obtained every 5 seconds that the device is activated, are analyzed using computational machinery for processing images and text, machine learning algorithms, human labeling, and qualitative inquiry. Adolescents’ digital lives differ substantially across persons, days, hours, and minutes. Screenomes highlight the extent of switching among multiple applications, and how each adolescent is exposed to different content at different times for different durations—with apps, food-related content, and sentiment as illustrative examples. We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals’ digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development.

scholarly journals National-Level Disparities in Internet Access Among Low-Income and Black and Hispanic Youth: Challenges in Reaching At Risk Groups (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Margaret Dolcini ◽  
Jesse A Canchola ◽  
Joseph A Catania ◽  
Marissa M Song Mayeda ◽  
Erin L Dietz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Low Income ◽  
National Level ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Low Ses ◽  
Hispanic Youth ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
The U.S

BACKGROUND Internet access is increasingly critical for adolescents with regard to obtaining health information and resources, participating in online health promotion and communicating with health practitioners. Yet, past work demonstrates that access is not uniform across U.S. youth, with lower access found among groups with higher health related needs. Population level data yield important insights about access and internet use in the U.S. OBJECTIVE To examine internet access and mode of access by social class and race/ethnicity among youth (14-17 years) in the U.S. METHODS Using the Current Population Survey (CPS), we examined internet access, cell/smartphone access and modes of connecting to the internet for adolescents for 2015 (unweighted N= 6950; expanded weights N = 17,103,547) and 2017 (unweighted n = 6761; expanded weights N = 17,379,728). RESULTS Internet access increased from 2015 to 2017, but SES and racial/ethnic disparities remain. In 2017, the greatest disparities were found for youth in low-income households (no home access (HA) = 23%), and for Blacks (no HA = 18%) and Hispanics (no HA = 14%). Low-income Black and Hispanic youth were the most likely to lack home internet access (no HA, Low-SES Black = 29%; Low-SES Hispanic = 21%). Mode of access (e.g., from home, smartphone) and smartphone only analyses also revealed disparities. CONCLUSIONS Without internet access, online dissemination of information, health promotion, and health care will not reach a significant segment of youth. Currently, SES and racial/ethnic disparities in access prolong health inequalities.

Seeing, imagined, and lived

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anandi Silva Knuppel
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Theories Of Practice ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
Definition Of

Scholarship on Hindu traditions and practices proposes the practice of darshan as fundamental to Hindu traditions, particularly in temple worship, observing that devotees seek out images of deities primarily to see them and “receive” their darshan. These works typically gloss the definition of darshan with a sentence or two about seeing, exchanging glances, and/or receiving blessings. In this paper, I focus on the ways in which darshan is ideally imagined in conjunction with other bodily sensory practices through sources of authority, such as texts and senior devotees, to create a specific sensory experience and expectation in the transnational Gaudiya Vaishnava community. I then look to the lived realitiesof darshan in this tradition, specifically how devotees negotiate the structures created through sources of authority in their daily lives. Through this juxtaposition of idealized and lived darshan, I argue that we need a new approach towards theories of practice to take into account the complexities of darshanic moments in this and other religious practices.

Nobody’s Perfect: Making sense of a parenting skills workshop through ethnographic research in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 026101832098398
Author(s):  
Marjorie Murray ◽  
Daniela Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
One Year ◽  
Everyday Problems

Nadie es Perfecto (Nobody’s Perfect, or NEP) is a parenting skills workshop aimed at ‘sharing experiences and receiving guidance on everyday problems to strengthen child development’. This article explores this workshop in terms of its relationship with the daily lives of participants, based on one year of fieldwork focused on families with young children in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago. While caregivers frame their parenting efforts as aiming to ‘hacer lo mejor posible’ (do their best) under difficult circumstances, our study found that facilitators take an anachronistic and homogenizing view of participants. Embracing a universalistic perspective of child development, they discourage participation and debate, focusing instead on providing concrete advice that limits the potential of the workshops. This article argues that by ignoring the different living situations of families in this socioeconomic context, NEP reproduces a prejudiced view of poor subjects that sees them as deficient and incapable of change.

scholarly journals The Potential of Advanced Placement to Improve College Outcomes and Narrow Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1932202X2110186
Author(s):  
Sarah Fierberg Phillips ◽  
Brett Lane
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Latino Students ◽  
Socioeconomic Disparities ◽  
Low Income Students ◽  
College Outcomes ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Better Than

The U.S. economy requires a highly educated workforce, yet too few black, Latino, and low-income students attend, persist, and graduate from college. The present study examines the college outcomes of participants in a model Advanced Placement® (AP) intervention to shed light on its effectiveness and determine whether improving AP participation and performance is a promising strategy for closing persistent racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in college outcomes. Findings suggest the college outcomes of program participants are better than those of similar students statewide while also highlighting variation within and across subgroups. At the same time, they confirm that AP participation and performance predict college outcomes and suggest that improving AP participation and performance among low-income white, black, and Latino students could be a useful strategy for closing persistent racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in college outcomes.

scholarly journals Racial/Ethnic Differences in Obesity Trends Among Young Low-Income Children

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 570-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Pan ◽  
Lisa C. McGuire ◽  
Heidi M. Blanck ◽  
Ashleigh L. May-Murriel ◽  
Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Children ◽  
Obesity Trends ◽  
Racial Ethnic

scholarly journals Imagining Her Future: Diversity in Mothers’ Socialization Goals for Their Adolescent Daughters

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ramirez ◽  
Linda Oshin ◽  
Stephanie Milan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Traits ◽  
Socialization Goals ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Q Sort

According to developmental niche theory, members of different cultural and ethnic groups often have distinct ideas about what children need to become well-adapted adults. These beliefs are reflected in parents’ long-term socialization goals for their children. In this study, we test whether specific themes that have been deemed important in literature on diverse families in the United States (e.g., Strong Black Woman [SBW], marianismo, familismo) are evident in mothers’ long-term socialization goals. Participants included 192 mothers of teenage daughters from a low-income city in the United States (58% Latina, 22% African American, and 20% European American [EA]/White). Socialization goals were assessed through a q-sort task on important traits for a woman to possess and content analysis of open-ended responses about what values mothers hoped they would transmit to their daughters as they become adults. Results from ANCOVAs and logistic regression indicate significant racial/ethnic differences on both tasks consistent with hypotheses. On the q-sort task, African American mothers put more importance on women possessing traits such as independence than mothers from other racial/ethnic groups. Similarly, they were more likely to emphasize self-confidence and strength in what they hoped to transmit to their daughters. Contrary to expectation, Latina mothers did not emphasize social traits on the q-sort; however, in open-ended responses, they were more likely to focus on the importance of motherhood, one aspect of marianismo and familismo. Overall, results suggest that these mothers’ long-term socialization goals incorporate culturally relevant values considered important for African American and Latino families.

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