scholarly journals Computer skills and digital media uses among young students in Rio de Janeiro

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalia Duarte ◽  
Sibele Cazelli ◽  
Rita Peixoto Migliora ◽  
Carlos Alberto Coimbra
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Computer Skills ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Homogeneous Pattern ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
New Policies ◽  
At Home

The main purpose of this paper is provide information relevant for  the formulation of new policies for the integration of technology in education from  the  discussion of research results that analyse computer skills and digital media uses among students (between 12 to 18 years old) from schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The schools surveyed were selected by a stratified random sample. The questionnaire allowed for statistical measurement of theoretical constructs employing non parametrical item response theory. The schools showed a homogeneous pattern with regard to the frequency of use and the ability of students to perform tasks on the computer. Most students use the computer and the Internet at home. The use of computers in schools is minimal and does not influence the students' ability. Even so, the use of a computer at school positively affects the frequency of use and suggests that schools can play a role in promoting digital inclusion. The availability of media resources at home, how long students have been using a computer and cultural practices during the students’ free time had notable positive correlations with the student’s abilities. The results suggest that the relation between age and abilities in the use of computer and internet was not significant, except in reference to school delays which were related to age and to students’ grades, i.e., the more delayed a student is, the less able he/she will be.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Inquiry into the Contextualized Parental Mediation Practices of Young Children’s Digital Media Use at Home

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bieke Zaman ◽  
Marije Nouwen ◽  
Jeroen Vanattenhoven ◽  
Evelien de Ferrerre ◽  
Jan Van Looy
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
At Home

Enslaved in Porto Alegre

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-33
Author(s):  
João José Reis ◽  
Flávio dos Santos Gomes ◽  
Marcus J. M. de Carvalho ◽  
H. Sabrina Gledhill
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Police Chief ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The City ◽  
At Home

In 1831, Rufino’s young master, an army cadet, took him to the province of Rio Grande do Sul, where he was sold to a merchant from the capital city of Porto Alegre. When his new master went bankrupt, Rufino was auctioned and bought by the police chief of the province. He worked as a cook at home and probably as a hire-out worker in the streets as well. Rio Grande received scores of slaves imported from Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. By 1819, 30 percent of Porto Alegre’s population were slaves. As the city grew, daily conflicts between slaves and the police and maroon activity became a major problem.

scholarly journals Managing Onion Thrips can Limit Bacterial Stalk and Leaf Necrosis in Michigan Onion Fields

Plant Disease ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 938-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Grode ◽  
E. Brisco-McCann ◽  
P. Wiriyajitsonboom ◽  
M. K. Hausbeck ◽  
Z. Szendrei
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Disease Incidence ◽  
Insect Pest ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Thrips Tabaci ◽  
Onion Thrips ◽  
Leaf Necrosis ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Thrips Population ◽  
Reduce Disease Severity

Onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) is a major insect pest of onion and it has been identified as a likely vector of Pantoea agglomerans (bacterial stalk and leaf necrosis), a relatively new pathogen to Michigan’s onion industry. Our objective was to develop an integrated insect and disease management program by examining the efficacy of bactericides and insecticides alone and in combination to limit bacterial stalk and leaf necrosis caused by P. agglomerans. We also examined the association of onion thrips and disease incidence in the field, because thrips are known to transmit this pathogen. In the pesticide trial, insecticides reduced both thrips abundance and bacterial stalk and leaf necrosis incidence whereas bactericides alone did not reduce disease severity. Positive correlations among thrips population density, numbers of thrips positive for P. agglomerans, and bacterial stalk and leaf necrosis incidence in onion fields were determined. This study suggests that onion thrips feeding can facilitate the development of bacterial stalk and leaf necrosis in Michigan’s commercial onion fields, and results from the pesticide trials indicate that thrips feeding damage is positively correlated with disease incidence. Therefore, in order to reduce bacterial stalk and leaf necrosis incidence in onion, management efforts should include reducing onion thrips populations through the use of insecticides and other cultural practices.

Media Anthropology

Anthropology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Pardo ◽  
Elizabeth ErkenBrack ◽  
John L. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Media Anthropology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Object Of Study

Although anthropologists have long addressed topics related to media and communications technologies, some have argued that a truly institutionalized commitment to the anthropology of media has only developed within the past twenty years. This might be due, at least in part, to a traditional disciplinary emphasis on “primitive” communities lacking the ostensible features of modernity, including electronic forms of mass mediation. Thick description, a central aim of ethnography as touted by Clifford Geertz, was historically geared toward small-scale societies and precluded the study of contemporary forms of mass media in modern life. However, anthropologists have begun to develop productive ways of including mass mediation into their ethnographic accounts. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly difficult to talk about cultural practices at all without some nod to the ubiquity of global media. From an anthropological perspective, it is important to consider varying cultural contexts of mass-media production, consumption, and interpretation. And this begs a question that several anthropologists have begun to answer. What is the most appropriate way to study “the media” as a cultural phenomenon? Content analyses of media texts? The measuring and identifying of media’s social effects and influence? Ethnographic studies of “reception” and “production”? Or something else entirely? Anthropologists engage in all of these and more. Additionally, new questions are emerging about how anthropology might best address digital media and online communities. There are multiple ways in which anthropologists have engaged with “the media” both as a tool of representation and an object of study. To outline some of those ways, it makes sense to provide a history of developments in the field, summarizing several thematic topics that have recently been of central focus to anthropologists of media, including religion, globalization, and nationalism. It also makes sense to think about approaches to studying mass media that other disciplines deploy—disciplines that are in conversation with anthropologists on this subject, including and especially media studies, communications studies, and cultural studies. The categorical divisions here attempt to reflect anthropology’s historical commitments to various analytical, thematic, and medium-based modes of inquiry.

Cultural Sustainabilities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Digital Transmission ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Media Philosophy ◽  
Applied Ethnomusicology

This collection of essays is driven by the proposition that environmental and cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. The authors are unified by the influence of the pioneering work of Jeff Todd Titon in developing broadly ecological approaches to folklore, ethnomusicology, and sustainability. These approaches lead to advocacy and activism. Building on and responding to Titon's work, the authors call for profoundly integrated efforts to better understand sustainability as a challenge that encompasses all living beings and ecological systems, including human cultural systems. While many of the chapters address musicking and ecomusicology, others focus on filmmaking, folklore, digital media, philosophy, and photography. Organized into five parts, Part 1 establishes a theoretical foundation and suggests methods for approaching the daunting issues of sustainability, resilience, and adaptive management. Part 2 offers five case studies interpreting widely divergent ways that humans are grappling with ecological and environmental challenges by engaging in expressive culture. Part 3 illustrates the role of media in sustainable cultural practices. Part 4 asks how human vocal expression may be central to human self-realization and cultural survival with case studies ranging from the digital transmission of Torah chanting traditions to Russian laments. Part 5 embraces Titon's highly influential work establishing and promoting applied ethnomusicology, and speaks directly to the themes of advocacy and activism.

scholarly journals Digital distinctions: mechanisms of difference in digital media use

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (58) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Stina Bengtsson
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Material

This article aims at understanding to understand the distinctive mechanisms of digital media use, seen in relation to cultural practices at large. The empirical material is a survey study of university students at the Business Administration, Media and Communication Studies, Political Science and Philosophy departments at Södertörn University, Sweden. The empirical analysis deals with the students’ digital media use and preferences, and how these are related to their broader cultural practices and preferences. Specific attention is paid to the webpages the students mention in the survey, and how these are distributed among the groups. By showing detailed information on these areas, the mechanisms of difference of digital media use are revealed.

scholarly journals Social Support for Digital Inclusion: Towards a Typology of Social Support Patterns

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axelle Asmar ◽  
Leo Van Audenhove ◽  
Ilse Mariën
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

This article contributes to a better understanding of patterns of social support in relation to digital inequalities. Based on an extensive qualitative study, the diversity of support networks and supports seeking patterns are unveiled. A typology of six patterns of help-seeking is presented and described: the support-deprived, the community-supported, the supported through substitution, the network-supported, the vicarious learners, and the self-supported. The article also critically engages with the often unnuanced academic literature on social support. The research and the typology reveal that the quality of support, as well as the availability of potential or actual support, is not only influenced by socio-economic factors. Rather, the strength of the relationship and the level of intimacy between individuals is an important predictor of support-seeking. As such, this article shows that mechanisms of in/exclusion are highly social, as they entail a diversity of formal and informal support-seeking patterns, which in turn have an important influence on the adoption and use of digital media. The article argues that understanding such mechanisms is rooted in reconciling micro-level interactions to macro-level patterns of inequalities. To show the specificity of social support within digital inequalities research, and to demarcate the concept from definitions of other academic disciplines, the concept of social support for digital inclusion is introduced. It is defined as the aid (emotional, instrumental, and informational) that an individual receives from his/her network in his/her use of digital technologies.

scholarly journals ‘MYBus’: Young People's Mobile Health, Wellbeing and Digital Inclusion

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn Nansen ◽  
Kabita Chakraborty ◽  
Lisa Gibbs ◽  
Colin MacDougall ◽  
Frank Vetere
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Youth Centre

As part of an ethnographic study researching the role of information and communication technology use in mediating young people’s social inclusion in an outer urban growth area of Melbourne, Australia, this paper reports on a case study of a community mobile youth centre, named MYBus. The MYBus is a converted passenger coach that operates as a mobile youth centre for young people aged 12-25. It aims to provide young people with up-to-date youth-specific information and resources, especially access to health and wellbeing information and services. The bus has been fitted with laptop computers, Internet access, Wii games, D.J. console and other gaming devices to support this engagement. This paper examines how the aggregation of digital media on MYBus not only has direct healthcare benefits, but also enables a broader approach to young people’s wellbeing by providing resources for digital access and participation. In particular, the mobilisation of these technologies operates to redress geographic and socioeconomic inequities for young people living on the urban fringe. We discuss this digital inclusion through research findings related to young people’s digital access, mediation, and mobility in the use of the MYBus technologies. This empirical work is situated theoretically by connecting this mobile digital inclusion with literature on young people’s social capital, to develop the concept of children’s e-mobility capital.

Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Lottaz
Keyword(s):  
Regular Representation ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
International Environment ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
The Way ◽  
At Home

AbstractThis article explores the way in which the Spanish and the Swiss legations in Japan acted and reacted to violent change in the international environment. By looking at the period of Japanese wartime aggression in Asia and the Pacific from 1931–1945, it analyzes key moments for both diplomatic missions, when changes abroad or at home led their respective diplomats to take a stance beyond the regular representation of national interests. The article argues that violent conflicts impacted the diplomatic behavior of the legations in Japan heavily. They were shaped by new policies in reaction to the violence, while sometimes also engaging in shaping such policies themselves.

scholarly journals Digital work and play: Mobile technologies and new ways of feeling at home

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Pink ◽  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Heather Horst ◽  
Josh Nettheim ◽  
Genevieve Bell
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Middle Class Families ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in the constitution of texture and feeling of the everyday needs to underpin our understanding of how mobile media are participating in shifts in everyday experiences of work and home. In doing so, we draw on ethnographic research undertaken with middle-class families in Melbourne, Australia.

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