scholarly journals Guiding young children’s internet use at home: Problems that parents experience in their parental mediation and the need for parenting support

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nikken ◽  
Jos De Haan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Older Siblings ◽  
At Home

Using an online questionnaire among 785 parents (children 0-7 years) in the Netherlands we investigated a) whether parents experience problems when guiding children’s digital media usage, b) whether they feel competent in dealing with these problems, c) whether they need parenting support, and d) how these problems, competences and need for support are related to the characteristics of the parents, the family and the child. The analyses reveal that the parents’ experiences of problems is associated with negative views on media effects, the presence of older siblings living at home and occur especially when their child is active on social media. Parents’ feelings of competence are enhanced by positive views on media effects, older children being present in the home, and the involvement of the young child in educational games and media skill level. Parents feel less confident if their child is active on social media. Support is primarily dependent on the level of problems at hand. Moreover, professionals are consulted especially when parents feel less competent, their child is active on social media and no older siblings are present at home. Parents ask family or friends for advice when they have a negative view on media effects.

scholarly journals Implications of low or high media use among parents for young children’s media use

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nikken
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Level Number ◽  
Very High ◽  
At Home

Using an online questionnaire among 1,381 parents (children 0-7 years) in the Netherlands I investigated a) the congruence between the time that parents and children spend on various media; b) how several parent, child and household characteristics vary among four family types: low, moderate, high, and very high media consumers; and c) which characteristics most strongly differentiate these four family types. The analyses reveal that parents vary widely in their media consumption (from about 1 to more than 6½ hours media per day). Since the children’s media use parallels their parent’s, parents seem to provide an important example in the home. Data also show that lower and higher use families differ significantly on income, education level, number of devices at home, views on media for children, ease of applying co-active mediation and children’s proficiency in media use. Finally, the four family types can best be distinguished on the basis of quantity characteristics (education level, number of screens at home, time spent by children on media) and quality characteristics (type of media content used, ease of mediation, views on media for children). Consequences for young children’s development and parenting support are described.

scholarly journals Social Media during the Egyptian Revolution: Egyptian Nationals at Home and Abroad

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Buchanan ◽  
Soha El Batrawy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Shared Content ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
At Home

This article considers the significance of social media platforms during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to two small groups of Egyptian nationals. Interviews were conducted with small groups of Egyptians living in the UK and Egyptians living at home. It establishes how these citizens used social media during the revolution and whether during the days of civil unrest they became citizen journalists by accessing and sharing information and video content with family and friends via digital media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. This research found that the sharing of online revolutionary content was dependent upon the level of trust with which the interviewees regarded its source. Significantly, interviewees in the UK were reluctant to share any content they received through social media platforms, and trusted only sources that they judged were ‘reliable’, while interviewees in Egypt shared content that was posted by fellow citizens regardless of whether or not they completely trusted the source.

Expectations vs. Practice in Critical Infrastructure Operator Crisis Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-50
Author(s):  
Laura Petersen ◽  
Laure Fallou ◽  
Paul Reilly ◽  
Elisa Serafinelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Public Expectations ◽  
Emergency Managers

Previous research into social media in crisis communication has tended to focus on use by emergency managers rather than another key stakeholder, critical infrastructure (CI) operators. This chapter adds to this field by empirically investigating public expectations of information provided by CI operators during crisis situations. It does so by drawing on a review of the literature on public expectations of disaster-related information shared via social media. Then it presents the results of an online questionnaire and interview-based study of disaster-vulnerable communities in France, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden. Results indicate that members of the public expect CI operators to provide information via traditional and social media, but not necessarily respond to queries on social media. Operators appear to meet traditional media expectations but should expand their current practices to include digital media.

Rede im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

Rhetorik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Academic Communication ◽  
Knowledge Communication ◽  
Ted Talks

AbstractDigitalization and social media have profoundly changed the way in which we communicate and share knowledge. As a result, traditional formats of situational speech - including the specific case of academic speeches and lectures - have come under some scrutiny and pressure: Today’s digital society calls for innovative formats of situational academic communication that strategically incorporate considerations regarding social media and digitalization. Shedding light on this challenge, this paper takes a closer look at three new formats of academic speech: Slams, TEDTalks, and Science Notes. It shows that for all three formats, cross-media effects are of key importance - with attendees immediately addressed within the original situational setting becoming part of an overarching communicative event that is relayed to a wider audience via digital media. By examining the specific consequences which these and other effects entail with respect to questions of setting and performance as well as textual and content-related strategies, the paper illustrates the challenges and chances arising from new formats of situational communication in the field of knowledge communication. I argue that Slams, Ted Talks and Sciences Notes provide illuminating examples of how to combine the powerful immediacy and fascination of situational interaction with the innovative communicative possibilities of the digital era (by adapting the traditional medium of academic speech to the requirements of today’s digital society). In this sense, digitalization does not appear as heralding the end of situational speech, but rather as a genuine chance for its modernized revival.

scholarly journals Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy?

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205316802110169
Author(s):  
Kevin Munger ◽  
Ishita Gopal ◽  
Jonathan Nagler ◽  
Joshua A. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Older People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Treatment Effect ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Mechanical Turk ◽  
Significant Treatment ◽  
Treatment Effect Heterogeneity ◽  
Effect Heterogeneity

An emerging empirical regularity suggests that older people use and respond to social media very differently than younger people. Older people are the fastest-growing population of Internet and social media users in the US, and this heterogeneity will soon become central to online politics. However, many important experiments in this field have been conducted on online samples that do not contain enough older people to be useful to generalize to the current population of Internet users; this issue is more pronounced for studies that are even a few years old. In this paper, we report the results of replicating two experiments involving social media (specifically, Facebook) conducted on one such sample lacking older users (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) using a source of online subjects which does contain sufficient variation in subject age. We add a standard battery of questions designed to explicitly measure digital literacy. We find evidence of significant treatment effect heterogeneity in subject age and digital literacy in the replication of one of the two experiments. This result is an example of limitations to generalizability of research conducted on samples where selection is related to treatment effect heterogeneity; specifically, this result indicates that Mechanical Turk should not be used to recruit subjects when researchers suspect treatment effect heterogeneity in age or digital literacy, as we argue should be the case for research on digital media effects.

The growing influence of social and digital media

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (8) ◽  
pp. 1766-1780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Russo ◽  
Mariarosaria Simeone
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Market Equilibrium ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Food Industries ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to devise and then test a theoretical model to illustrate the effects of the increasing importance of social media on consumer behavior and market equilibrium in differentiated food industries. Design/methodology/approach The authors use game theory to model the strategic use of social media by firms producing high-value food products. The authors test the predictions of the theoretical model by means of a survey of 722 randomly selected Italian food consumers using an online questionnaire. Findings The model predicts that, as social media become more and more influential, consumers using the new media become more informed, and their concern about food quality attributes increases. At the same time, the consumers using mass media only receive less information and they prefer cheaper products to the high value one. As a result, the emergence of social media favours market segmentation and the hypotheses tested were: Social consumers are, on average, more informed than mass consumers and more concerned about environmental issues than mass consumers. The data support the theoretical model. Originality/value The paper contributes to the debate about the impact of information from interested sources on market equilibrium, providing an innovative analysis of the role of social media.

scholarly journals European Expectations of Disaster Information provided by Critical Infrastructure Operators

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Petersen ◽  
Laure Fallou ◽  
Paul Reilly ◽  
Elisa Serafinelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Public Expectations ◽  
Emergency Managers

Previous research into social media crisis communication has tended to focus on use by emergency managers rather than other key stakeholder, critical infrastructure (CI) operators. This article adds to the field by empirically investigating public expectations of information provided by CI operators during crisis situations and if CI operators currently meet such expectations. It draws on key themes that emerged from a review of the literature on public expectations of disaster related information shared via social media. Then, it presents the results of an online questionnaire and interview-based study of disaster-vulnerable communities in France, Norway, Portugal and Sweden. Results indicate that members of the public expect CI operators to provide disaster related information via traditional and social media, but not necessarily respond to their queries on social media. Operators appear to meet public expectations of traditional media use, but should expand their current practices to include digital media. Recommendations for CI operators on how to do use social media follow.

Effects of Image Upload on Social Media as Media Promotion in Journal Publishers

CCIT Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Untung Rahardja ◽  
Ani Wulandari ◽  
Marviola Hardini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Three Solutions ◽  
Conventional Process ◽  
Promotion System

Digital content is content in various formats, whether written, image, video, audio or combination so that it can be read, displayed or played by a computer and easily sent or hared through digital media. Digital content has abundant benefits, especially in the field of promotion. Where when a place of business or a body wants to introduce a product or service that is owned, it definitely requires content such as images as a promotional media. However, if you have to distribute posters to everyone you meet, it is not in line with current technological advancements because you are still using a conventional process. Therefore, to overcome this problem, social media can be used to process digital content easily and quickly. In this study, there are 3 (three) problems that will be overcome by 2 (two) methods, and 3 (three) solutions are produced. The advantage of digital content in social media is that it can be accessed anytime and anywhere, so it is concluded that the use of digital content in social media is able to overcome problems and is a creativepreneur effort found in the promotion system of a journal publisher.   Keywords—Digital Content, Creativepreneur, ATT Journal, Social Media

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