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Experiences of a digital health innovation for older adults living with long-term health problems: the SelfSTRENGTH application
Get PDFThere is a national call for digital health innovations in the provision of health and social care, especially for older adults in the context of home. The Reflective STRENGTH-Giving Dialogue (STRENGTH) method is used to provide individual and holistic care using recurrent dialogues. The SelfSTRENGTH application (app) was developed to support reflection and stimulate activity that enables achievement of meaningful life projects. The objective of the study was to describe how the use of the SelfSTRENGTH app is perceived by older adults living with long-term health problems. A qualitative, descriptive and inductive design. Data, analyzed using a phenomenographic approach, consisted of individual qualitative interviews with older adults (age range = 74–96) conducted before (n = 34) and after (n = 27) participation in the STRENGTH intervention. The results consist of five categories of description: Resistance to use apps and digital tools; Health problems hinder its usefulness; Need of assistance is a prerequisite to be able to use the app; the app supports memory and reflection; and Using the app disperses thoughts and creates motivation. The outcome space thus contains descriptions of both barriers and possibilities regarding how the use of the SelfSTRENGTH app is perceived. The potential of using technology such as applications in health care is immense. However, long-term health problems in older adults, along with care providers’ attitudes and opportunities to support, must be taken into consideration when implementing apps in health and social care
Addressing conspiracy theories through Media and Data Literacy Education. An exploratory case study
Get PDFLately conspiracy theories (CT) are increasingly hovering over Education Studies, mostly as problems in search of a solution. This paper problematizes this educational solutionist discourse by reflecting critically on different framing of CT (i.e. epistemological and ethico-political) and some related educational responses, ranging from pre/debunking strategies to democratic discussion. In addition, Media Data Literacy Education (MDLE) is presented as a viable educational approach to address CT circulating onlife. The approach is empirically explored through an online workshop with a small group of social workers attending a course for socio-pedagogical educators at the University of Florence. A qualitative mixed methodology is used to explore the pedagogical relevance of the MDLE intervention in addressing the educational challenges posed by CT and to highlight a possible critical rethinking of participants on the CT and their data. Results suggests that participants see MDLE as a valid pedagogical strategy to guide different learners (adolescents, general public and themselves) in the critical evaluation of media (dis)information. In addition, although the workshop seems to have enhanced participants’ critical thinking about mediatisation and datafication of CT further research is needed to develop and evaluate this pedagogical strategy, especially in relation to multiperspectival thinking and democratic discussions of CT in formal educational contexts
Teachers’ perceptions of media literacy competence during an online professional development
Get PDFAlthough scholars and practitioners have suggested teachers integrate media literacy into content instruction to equip students with the skills needed to participate online, media literacy may be a new or underutilized concept for teachers. As teachers must acquire the necessary skills to educate students about media literacy, online professional development is an efficient method for teacher learning focusing on concepts often overlooked by school divisions such as media literacy. This case study examined the change in six high school teachers’ perceptions of their competence related to the instructional integration of media literacy while participating in an online professional development course. Findings indicated a perceived increase with the following: media literacy connections to content curriculum, media literacy language, use of the open web, and media evaluation. Recommendations include specific refinements to the online professional development course, implementing differentiated media literacy learning experiences, technology coaching, and leveraging media literacy for social justice
Mobile payment, financial behavior and financial anxiety: A multi-group structural equation modeling study
Get PDFPurpose: This study aims to examine the association between mobile payment usage and financial anxiety, and explores the mediating role of financial behavior. Moreover, this research also compares the moderating effects of financial education and financial knowledge.
Design/methodology/approach: A sample of 18,584 consumers from the 2021 National Financial Capability Study in the U.S. was analyzed. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to explore indirect associations between mobile payment usage and financial anxiety. Two undesirable financial behaviors, overspending and over-indebtedness were used as mediators between mobile payment and financial anxiety. Moreover, multi-group analyses was conducted for two financial knowledge groups and two financial education groups to examine the heterogeneity. Robustness test is employed to ensure this reliability of the results.
Findings: The SEM results showed that the positive association between mobile payment and financial anxiety was mediated by overspending and over-indebtedness in a parallel multiple mediation relationship. In addition, financial knowledge moderated the relationships between financial behaviors (overspending or over borrowing) and financial anxiety, while financial education moderated the associations between mobile payment use and overspending, and between overspending and financial anxiety.
Originality/value: This study explored the association between mobile payment use and financial anxiety, and how undesirable financial behaviors like overspending and over-indebtedness mediate this process. Furthermore, multi-group analyses were employed in financial education subsamples and financial knowledge subsamples. Based on the findings, implications were discussed for individual users, government regulation, and education programs of mobile payment
Children negotiating meanings in kidfluencers’ channels
Get PDFYouTube is a commercialised digital environment that provides profitable opportunities for content creators. Children’s channels have proliferated in recent years on this platform. Children YouTubers become kidfluencers when they reach an important number of subscriptions and brands start to show interest in their channels. Following a qualitative methodology with focus groups, in which 263 primary education pupils participated, we examined these pupils’ use of social media and their relationships with the influencers followed, together with their media literacy skills and negotiation of meanings upon watching a Spanish kidfluencer’s channel. Pupils were encouraged to express and communicate their experiences, thoughts, feelings and opinions about these YouTubers’ messages through peer interaction. The results point to an early overexposure to digital content and social media; the consumption of content aimed at young adults and unsuitable for their ages; variable media competence due to the children’s developmental level; and negotiated and oppositional readings in the reception of these kidfluencers’ messages
Subvertising in the classroom: A comparative study on fostering critical media literacy
Get PDFSubvertising, traditionally linked to counterculture and anti-consumption, is utilized in education to reveal the manipulative strategies of corporate messaging to students. Classroom use of cut-and-paste methods deconstructs advertisement messages, fostering an understanding of how needs and desires are constructed through appropriation, incorporation, and transformation tactics. This research aims to comprehend fully the implementation and impact of subvertising workshops in educational settings by analyzing six scholarly articles on applied workshops. The data, sourced from a previous scoping review on subvertising, enabled a comprehensive evaluation of methodologies and effective techniques. The study compares these cases to the ten key steps proposed by Grigoryan and King (2008) and concludes with six key steps for conducting a subvertising workshop, particularly emphasizing the cut-and-paste technique’s role in promoting analytical reflection. Findings suggest that subvertising is effective in engaging students, enhancing their critical thinking skills, and motivating them towards critical consumption
Another Take on the Opposition between Gender Categories
Get PDFThe gender spectrum, a continuum ranging from “male” to “female,” is a huge improvement over the traditional binary model, according to which one can be either one or the other, and no degrees are allowed. However, the model still suffers from some inadequacies, most notably the inability to represent other genders and agender identities. This is accounted for in the new “spectral” models of gender, which use independent scales to measure the degree to which a person identifies with a given gender category. However, by conceiving the amounts of gender dimensions to be mutually independent, these models invite other difficulties, most notably the inability to account for agender identities in a straightforward fashion. In this paper, I argue that a way to solve the problems with the new models (and not to have the old problems re-appear) is to take a step back, of sorts, towards the initial gender spectrum. I explore from a perspective of philosophical logic the types of relations among gender categories in the spectral models of gender and argue that the initial spectrum construes gender categories to be in the logical opposition of “fuzzy contradiction,” while the models with more than one spectrum do not construe gender categories to be in any kind of logical opposition. I propose a weaker opposition (namely, “fuzzy contrariety”) between gender categories, as well as the “fuzzy gender hexagon”—an application of a particular abstract logical diagram to gender terms—as a model of gender identity
Electrophysiological investigation of active-assisted vs recumbent cycling: A pilot study in healthy older adults
No full textThere is a relationship between acute bouts of aerobic exercise and cognition in adults, yet the exact nature of this relationship remains unclear. The current pilot study aims to investigate how different modes of cycling (active-assisted cycling vs recumbent cycling) at different moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) intensity levels (prescribed 65–70% Heart Rate Max and self-selected 12–13 Rate of Perceived Exertion) modulate neurocognitive, and behavioral markers of cognition in healthy older adults. A sample of 10 adults (aged 50–74 years) participated in baseline (no exercise), active-assisted, and recumbent cycling interventions at different intensity levels. The P3 event-related potential (ERP), a neural index of executive functions, was recorded at baseline and following each exercise condition during an auditory odd-ball paradigm. Results revealed that greater amplitudes within the P3 ERP component were associated with post-exercise recumbent bike cycling compared to baseline and active-assisted cycling. Further, post-exercise behavioral cognitive measures (i.e., button press accuracy) were significantly greater than baseline for both active-assisted and recumbent bikes at both intensity levels. These findings suggest that exercise modulated both neurocognitive and behavioral measures of executive functions in older healthy adults, and that exercise modalities and intensity levels differentially modulate neurocognitive measures