DIGITAL MEDIA USE OF GENERATION Z DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoan Luong Cu Si
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Information Image ◽  
Media Preference ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Share Information

This study examines the depth (frequency), and width (different types) of digital media use about COVID-19 pandemic by Indonesian Gen Z. Participants come from several regions and consist of Gen Z who were born between 1995-2010. A survey towards 326 participants found that WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube are platforms that were used by Gen Z in their daily life. Meanwhile, this generation chose WhatsApp as the platform to share information on COVID-19 and other platforms like Instagram and Twitter to receive and post information, image, video, opinion, and personal experiences related to COVID-19. Finding also shows that in daily life, the participants can be categorised as heavy users because they spent more than four hours a day to use digital media. In contrast, they only spent less than an hour per day to find and share information about COVID-19. Therefore, this study argues that there are differences in media preference between daily life and toward COVID-19 pandemic information.

scholarly journals DIGITAL MEDIA USE OF GENERATION Z DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-340
Author(s):  
Fiona Suwana ◽  
Alila Pramiyanti ◽  
Ira Dwi Mayangsari ◽  
Reni Nuraeni ◽  
Yasinta Firdaus
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Information Image ◽  
Media Preference ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Share Information

This study examines the depth (frequency), and width (different types) of digital media use about COVID-19 pandemic by Indonesian Gen Z. Participants come from several regions and consist of Gen Z who were born between 1995-2010. A survey towards 326 participants found that WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube are platforms that were used by Gen Z in their daily life. Meanwhile, this generation chose WhatsApp as the platform to share information on COVID-19 and other platforms like Instagram and Twitter to receive and post information, image, video, opinion, and personal experiences related to COVID-19. Finding also shows that in daily life, the participants can be categorised as heavy users because they spent more than four hours a day to use digital media. In contrast, they only spent less than an hour per day to find and share information about COVID-19. Therefore, this study argues that there are differences in media preference between daily life and toward COVID-19 pandemic information.

Decoding algorithms

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 745-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stine Lomborg ◽  
Patrick Heiberg Kapsch
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Decoding Algorithms ◽  
Modes Of Engagement

In this article, we propose to adapt the communication theory concept of ‘decoding’ as a sensitizing device to probe how people come to know and understand algorithms, what they imagine algorithms to do, and their valorization of and responses to algorithmic work in daily media use. We posit the concept of decoding as useful because it highlights a feature that is constitutional in communication: gaps that must be filled by mobilizing our semiotic and socio-cultural knowledge in processes of interpretation before any communication becomes meaningful. If we cannot open the black box itself, we can study the relationships that people experience with algorithms, and by extension how and to what extent these experienced relationships become meaningful and are interwoven with users’ reflections of power, transparency, and justice in digital media. We demonstrate the potential of approaching algorithmic experience as communicative practices of decoding through an exploratory empirical study of how people from different walks of life come to know, feel, evaluate, and do algorithms in daily life. We unpack three prototypical modes of decoding algorithms – along preferred, negotiated, and oppositional modes of engagement with algorithms in daily life.

scholarly journals Project (I)solation – Everyday Life and Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Ádám Guld
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Applications ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time

Abstract The pandemic has placed our relationship with digital media in a new context. Regardless of age, the isolation had significant impact on our everyday routines, of which media use has become a constant factor in one form or another. We may have never tried to use so many new applications in such a short time before, as for many of us media was the only connection to the outside world. However, after the quarantine, there are several questions that may arise following the extreme situation. Were we captured or rather liberated by the online media? What did we learn about online life and our relationship with the media during the epidemic? How could the digital generation adapt itself to the new circumstances? What challenges and problems did Generation Z face during the quarantine? How have young people’s daily routines, media use patterns, news consumption, learning and/or working habits changed? How about their general attitudes towards the media and their effects on them? In the study below, I seek answers to these questions based on the results of an international, interdisciplinary research project called TOGETHER initiated by the University of Pécs (Pécs, Hungary) and Hochschule für Kommunikation und Gestaltung (Stuttgart, Germany).

scholarly journals No effect of different types of media on well-being

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Johannes ◽  
Tobias Dienlin ◽  
Hasan Bakhshi ◽  
Andrew K Przybylski
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Media Types ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Uk

It is often assumed that traditional forms of media such as books enhance well-being, whereas digital media do not. However, we lack evidence for such claims and media research is mainly focused on how much time people spend with a medium, but not whether someone used a medium or not. We investigated the effect of media use on well-being, differentiating time spent with a medium and use vs. nonuse, over a wide range of different media types: music, TV, films, video games, (e-)books, (digital) magazines, and audiobooks. Results from a six-week longitudinal study representative of the UK population (N = 2,159) showed that effects were generally small; between but rarely within people; mostly for use vs. nonuse and not time spent with a medium; and on affective well-being, not life satisfaction. Together, these results do not support policies intended to encourage or discourage media use because of effects on well-being.

scholarly journals Communication of Parents to Children in Monitoring Digital Media Use

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ike Junita Triwardhani
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Do So

People's daily life today can hardly be separated from digital media. Nevertheless,  digital media has both positive and negative impacts. The positive impact is digital media makes life easier, but it can also have a negative impact on people's well-being if it is not used properly and out of control. The presence of massive digital media requires wise users. However, it will not be easy for children to do so that they need accompaniment from parents. The form of accompaniment includes effective communication with children by increasing parent’s credibility so that children trust their parents and the objective of communication can be achieved. This research is conducted by applying descriptive method. The purpose of this study is to discover how parents communicate with children to help them choose, use, and recognize the benefits and negative impacts of digital media. The results show that parents have an important role in simultaneously accompanying and monitoring their children in using digital media. Parents must be able to communicate in various ways, have the ability to build empathy, own a sense of belonging in children, and allow children to express their thoughts and feelings; those are several considerations for parents in accompanying and monitoring children's digital media use.

Twitter Usage Using Common Reference to Tinnitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Jianyuan Ni ◽  
Monica L. Bellon-Harn ◽  
Jiang Zhang ◽  
Yueqing Li ◽  
Vinaya Manchaiah
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
Share Information

Objective The objective of the study was to examine specific patterns of Twitter usage using common reference to tinnitus. Method The study used cross-sectional analysis of data generated from Twitter data. Twitter content, language, reach, users, accounts, temporal trends, and social networks were examined. Results Around 70,000 tweets were identified and analyzed from May to October 2018. Of the 100 most active Twitter accounts, organizations owned 52%, individuals owned 44%, and 4% of the accounts were unknown. Commercial/for-profit and nonprofit organizations were the most common organization account owners (i.e., 26% and 16%, respectively). Seven unique tweets were identified with a reach of over 400 Twitter users. The greatest reach exceeded 2,000 users. Temporal analysis identified retweet outliers (> 200 retweets per hour) that corresponded to a widely publicized event involving the response of a Twitter user to another user's joke. Content analysis indicated that Twitter is a platform that primarily functions to advocate, share personal experiences, or share information about management of tinnitus rather than to provide social support and build relationships. Conclusions Twitter accounts owned by organizations outnumbered individual accounts, and commercial/for-profit user accounts were the most frequently active organization account type. Analyses of social media use can be helpful in discovering issues of interest to the tinnitus community as well as determining which users and organizations are dominating social network conversations.

THE COLOUR VISION DEFICIENCIES AMONG STUDENTS OF HUE SECONDARY SCHOOL OF TRANSPORTATION

2013 ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
Thi Anh Thu Nguyen ◽  
Thi Mai Dung Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Colour Vision ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Visual Disabilities ◽  
Occupation Group ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Colour Blindness ◽  
Critical Requirement

Background: Colorblind disability causes difficulties for people in daily life. Derived from the critical requirement to detect the patients in order to help prevent inappropriate careers, especially careers related to transportation, this research aim to determine the situations and the distributions of different types of visual disabilities. Materials: 1174 students (787 boys and 387 girls) including 2 groups: occupation group and transportation group were tested with ISHIHARA chromatic plates for colour vision deficiencies (CVD) (CVD iclude the total colour blindness, red- green blindness, red-blindness, green- blindness). The results are showed as follow: (i) Frequency of CVD boys among boy group is 4.70%; (ii) Frequency of CVD girls among girls group is 2.58%; (iii) In boy group, among 3 types of red- green blindness, the green-blindness has the higher frequency (3.18%) comparision with these ones of the red- green blindness and red-blindness. The total colour defiency was hardly; (iv) Frequency of CVD students among occupation group is 4.15%; (v) Frequency of CVD students among transportation group is 3.83%.

scholarly journals A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Parry ◽  
Brittany I. Davidson ◽  
Craig J. R. Sewall ◽  
Jacob T. Fisher ◽  
Hannah Mieczkowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Meta Analysis

Exploring ‘digital placemaking’

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-578
Author(s):  
Germaine Halegoua ◽  
Erika Polson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Broad Framework ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control ◽  
Connected Spaces

This brief essay introduces the special issue on the topic of ‘digital placemaking’ – a concept describing the use of digital media to create a sense of place for oneself and/or others. As a broad framework that encompasses a variety of practices used to create emotional attachments to place through digital media use, digital placemaking can be examined across a variety of domains. The concept acknowledges that, at its core, a drive to create and control a sense of place is understood as primary to how social actors identify with each other and express their identities and how communities organize to build more meaningful and connected spaces. This idea runs through the articles in the issue, exploring the many ways people use digital media, under varied conditions, to negotiate differential mobilities and become placemakers – practices that may expose or amplify preexisting inequities, exclusions, or erasures in the ways that certain populations experience digital media in place and placemaking.

scholarly journals Digital Media Use and Suicidal Behavior in U.S. Adolescents, 2009-2017

2021 ◽  
pp. 101497
Author(s):  
Adam M. Leventhal ◽  
Junhan Cho ◽  
Katherine M. Keyes ◽  
Jennifer Zink ◽  
Kira E. Riehm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Media Use
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