Development of the Internet Literacy Indicator for Students (ILAS) and Longitudinal Analysis of Scores

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Nagayuki Saito ◽  
Madoka Aragaki
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
School Education ◽  
Family Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Longitudinal Survey Data ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Internet Literacy

Owing to the fact that ownership of telecommunication devices such as smartphones and tablets has spread among young people, the internet has become very familiar to them. On the other hand, they face the risks of encountering various internet problems. In this study, the authors analyzed and evaluated longitudinal survey data focusing on awareness education policies in order to periodically evaluate the internet environment for young people in line with the Youth Internet Environment Improvement Act Supplementary Provisions Article 3. From the results of the analysis and evaluation, the following were found: 1) although awareness education has spread through school education and family education, its presence in family education is not sufficient and 2) to learn internet literacy, school education plays a major role.

Exploring How Beliefs About Algorithms Shape (Offline) Success in Online Dating: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Investigation

2020 ◽  
pp. 009365021989693
Author(s):  
Liesel L. Sharabi
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Longitudinal Investigation ◽  
Longitudinal Survey Data ◽  
People’S Perceptions

Matching algorithms are a central feature of online dating, yet little research exists on their effectiveness—or people’s perceptions of their effectiveness—for recommending a mate. Accordingly, this study explores the effects of people’s beliefs in the legitimacy of algorithms on their first date with an online dating partner. Longitudinal survey data were collected from online dating participants leading up to and following the first date. Findings suggested that whether algorithms actually worked mattered less than whether participants had the perception that they worked for finding a partner. Moreover, participants reported better first dates to the extent that they believed in the efficacy of the compatibility matching process. The results have implications for understanding the role of algorithms in shaping relationship success on and off the internet.

scholarly journals Communication in a Multicultural Virtual Environment for Modern Slovak Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 770-784
Author(s):  
Hedviga Tkáčová ◽  
Roman Králik
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
The Difference

The necessity of establishing intercultural communication skills in children and young people is growing in the modern world. Expanding, extending the openness and accessibility of the Internet area, where diverse people with varied ideas, interests, and aspirations meet, plays a significant role in this process. Todays youth are aptly referred to as digital aborigines, as they navigate the multicultural internet environment with ease, actively using modern technology that have already become a part of their daily lives. The goal of this study is to investigate the setting of an online multicultural environment from the perspective of Slovak university students, as well as to identify and analyze current problems that university students can see in online discussions about other cultures. A structured interview was used as the primary research approach. The results provide Slovak students perspective on the six most common topics that resonate in connection with different cultures on the current Internet: (1) concerns about ones own safety due to differences of others; (2) misinformation on the Internet regarding the difference of others; (3) cognitive prejudice; (4) religious prejudices; (5) exaggeration; and (6) influencing audience emotions. This paper holds the view that modern young people should develop not only the ability to navigate in virtual reality, but also make daily personal efforts to overcome personal barriers and develop intercultural media literacy, which the authors define as the ability to acquire, in addition to digital competencies, intercultural understanding skills and apply these skills in practice in the process of communication in the Internet environment.

INFORMATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET: THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL SETS

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
M.Yu. Vaganova ◽  
◽  
I.Yu. Matveeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Education Program ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Psychological Influence

The article examines the essence and nature of information and psychological influence on a personality, analyzes the forms of influence, including destructive ones. Their active use in the Internet environment provides a requirement for the formation and development of information and psychological security of a personality based on the control oversocial attitudes to the Internet. The article presents the results of diagnostics of students-librarians' attitudes to the Internet and their behavior in the network. The author justifies the necessity to introduce skill sets and teaching units related to increasing the level of information and psychological security of students ' personality into the education program for training highly qualified librarian

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM OF PREVENTION OF DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE OF THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT ON THE STUDENT YOUTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (7(71)) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
D. Kononovych
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Comprehensive Program ◽  
Medium Development ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Experimental Group

The paper presents an analysis of the results of an experiment on the implementation of a comprehensive program for the prevention of the destructive influence of the Internet environment on student youth in the activities of social service centers. In accordance with the purpose and objectives of scientific work, the sample consisted of 533 people aged 16 to 25 years. The proposed program is based on the assumption that critical thinking is an effective means of counteracting the destructive information impact. According to the results of the analyzed data, positive changes that occurred in young people in accordance with the axiological, cognitive and praxiological components of the formation of critical thinking. As a result of the pedagogical experiment, the majority of respondents in the experimental group achieved high and medium development of the indicators of the criteria. The effectiveness of the implementation of the developed program in the preventive activities of specialists in social work of social service centers has been proven.

Information-Seeking on the Internet

Crisis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinod Singaravelu ◽  
Anne Stewart ◽  
Joanna Adams ◽  
Sue Simkin ◽  
Keith Hawton
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Specific Advice ◽  
Restriction Sites ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Negative Tone

Abstract. Background: The Internet is used by young people at risk of self-harm to communicate, find information, and obtain support. Aims: We aimed to identify and analyze websites potentially accessed by these young people. Method: Six search terms, relating to self-harm/suicide and depression, were input into four search engines. Websites were analyzed for access, content/purpose, and tone. Results: In all, 314 websites were included in the analysis. Most could be accessed without restriction. Sites accessed by self-harm/suicide search terms were mostly positive or preventive in tone, whereas sites accessed by the term ways to kill yourself tended to have a negative tone. Information about self-harm methods was common with specific advice on how to self-harm in 15.8% of sites, encouragement of self-harm in 7.0%, and evocative images of self-harm/suicide in 20.7%. Advice on how to get help was given in 56.1% of sites. Conclusion: Websites relating to suicide or self-harm are easily accessed. Many sites are potentially helpful. However, a significant proportion of sites are potentially harmful through normalizing or encouraging self-harm. Enquiry regarding Internet use should be routinely included while assessing young people at risk.

Methods of Countering Cyber Recruitment (Iraq Model)

2019 ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Hind Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Other Hand

Connecting to the  electronic information network (internet) became the most characteristic that distinguish this era However , the long hours which young men daily spend on the internet On the other hand ,there are many people who are waiting for the chance to talk and convince them with their views This will lead the young people to be part in the project of the “cyber armies “that involved with states and terrorist organizations  This project has been able  to recruitment hundreds of people every day to work in its rank . It is very difficult to control these websites because we can see the terrorist presence in all its forms in the internet   In addition there are many incubation environments that feed in particular the young people minds                                                                                         Because they are suffering from the lack of social justice Also the unemployment, deprivation , social and political repression So , that terrorist organizations can attract young people through the internet by convincing them to their views and ideas . So these organizations will enable to be more  stronger.

ORGANIZATION AND LEGAL BASES OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM COUNTERING ON THE INTERNET

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Викторович Кияйкин ◽  
Екатерина Андреевна Дворецкая
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
The World ◽  
Preventive Work ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Massive Information

В статье раскрываются особенности сущностного понимания религиозного экстремизма и организационно-правовой профилактики данного явления. Обращено внимание на важность профилактической работы в рамках предупреждения антиобщественного (девиантного) поведения. Авторами рассматриваются причины и условия формирования религиозного экстремизма и наполнения им сети Интернет. Интернет-сообщество сталкивается с массовой информационной угрозой со стороны экстремистских организаций. Это связано с катастрофически быстрым распространением радикальных идеологий, всеобщей компьютеризацией и информатизацией общественных процессов, что облегчает процесс распространения материалов, носящих экстремистский характер. Религиозный экстремизм является источником вооруженных конфликтов во всем мире. Жертвами этого страшного явления, как правило, являются дети, подростки, молодые люди, кого легко заманить в сети идеологического обмана. Религиозный экстремизм опасен не только разрушением социальных объектов и ценностей, убийствами, террором. Гораздо опаснее сама идеология экстремизма, которая искажает мировоззрение и психику человека. В этих условиях эффективным является проведение профилактических мероприятий с молодым поколением, доведение до людей важности вопроса, осуществление контроля за неблагополучными семьями, обучение молодых лиц толерантности и уважению к окружающим людям. В работе определены направления работы правоохранительных органов по вопросу совершенствования механизма противодействия распространению экстремистской информации. Определена важность международного сотрудничества. The article reveals the features of the essential understanding of religious extremism and organizational and legal prevention of this phenomenon. Attention is drawn to the importance of preventive work as part of the prevention of antisocial (deviant) behavior. The authors consider the reasons and conditions for the formation of religious extremism and the filling of the Internet. The online community is facing a massive information threat from extremist organizations. This is due to the catastrophically lightning-fast spread of radical ideologies, the general computerization and informatization of social processes, which facilitates the process of distributing materials of an extremist nature. Religious extremism is a source of armed conflict throughout the world. The victims of this terrible phenomenon, as a rule, are children, adolescents, young people and girls - whom it is easy to lure into networks of ideological deception. Religious extremism is dangerous not only the destruction of social objects and values, murders, terror. The ideology of extremism itself, which distorts the worldview and the human psyche, is much more dangerous. Religious extremism is a source of armed conflict throughout the world. The victims of this terrible phenomenon, as a rule, are children, adolescents, young people and girls - whom it is easy to lure into networks of ideological deception. Religious extremism is dangerous not only the destruction of social objects and values, murders, terror. The ideology of extremism itself, which distorts the worldview and the human psyche, is much more dangerous.

scholarly journals Can inner and outer containment counteract pulls and pushes toward delinquency? A test of Walter Reckless’s containment theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 147737082098881
Author(s):  
Heleen J Janssen ◽  
Gerben JN Bruinsma ◽  
Frank M Weerman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Test ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Interaction Theory ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Core ◽  
Longitudinal Survey Data ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The City

The aim of the current study is to provide an empirical test of containment theory of Walter Reckless (1899–1988). The theory proposes that outer and inner containment hold adolescents back from delinquency even when external factors pull and push them toward it. This early control theory was ahead of its time, but never received the empirical attention it deserves. This article outlines the core theoretical concepts and the basic propositions in order to empirically examine their validity. We employed hybrid linear regression analysis using longitudinal survey data of 612 adolescents (12–18 years old) in the city of The Hague, the Netherlands. The results indicate that outer and inner containment can be meaningfully distinguished, and that several but not all propositions of the theory are supported. Inner and outer containment function as a buffer against external pulls and are able to counteract the effect of increases in environmental pulls during adolescence. We conclude that containment theory is still a promising interaction theory that can help us understand why adolescents who experience external pulls toward delinquency are able to resist these influences.

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