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sj-pdf-1-jag-10.1177_07334648211062877 – Supplemental Material for An Integrated mHealth Campaign to Reduce the Risk of Falling for Older Adults
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jag-10.1177_07334648211062877 for An Integrated mHealth Campaign to Reduce the Risk of Falling for Older Adults by Nicola Brew-Sam, Arul Chib, Arah Ysabelle Fondevilla Torres, Jing Xuan Joshua Ng, Yi Ting Jade Wong, and Yeo Sze-G in Journal of Applied Gerontology</p
Promoting Sexual Health Education via Gaming
No full textThe spread of contagious STDs, HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancies amongst marginalized youth in developing nations is a source of concern. This study examines the use of an educational interactive game to educate Peruvian youth about sexual and reproductive health. 102 teenagers living in the barrios of Lima played an interactive educational multimedia game. The research design consisted of pre- and post-intervention surveys. The study utilized social cognitive theory to determine the influence of prior knowledge, self-efficacy and game-playing on respondents attitudes. In this particular case, prior attitudes, knowledge, resistance to peer-pressure and game-playing were significant predictors of attitudes towards sexual health. Implications and strategies for teachers utilizing interactive games for promotion of sexual education are discussed.</jats:p
Research on the Impact of the Information Society in the Global South: An Introduction to SIRCA
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Minus plastic : applying stages of change to an environmental promotional campaign.
No full textPlastic have much to offer as a modern convenience but if we do not take responsibility in developing proper plastic waste management habits, plastic can have potential harmful effects on the environment. Secondary research revealed the lack of focus on youth attitudes and needs in existing environmental initiatives. [minus]plastic is an environmental public promotional campaign targeted at Singaporean youth aged between 17 and 25 years. The campaign encouraged youth to adopt positive attitudes towards responsible plastic management, recognise the importance of and subsequently adopt the practice of responsible plastic management. The two-month long youth-for-youth campaign is one of Singapore’s pioneering projects on reducing plastic usage. This study utilised Prochaska and DiClemente’s stages of change model (1982) as the overarching theory to study current youth attitudes towards environmental concerns. A pre-post quantitative research design showed that the pre-contemplation, contemplation and preparation stages progressed significantly after the campaign. The implications from the study are specialised information must be adapted to the different stages to allow migration to the next stages. With strong presence of Internet culture among Singaporean youth, the online medium was proven effective in altering the attitudes of the target audience. Therefore future environmental campaign targeted at youth could explore this platform to disseminate their messages.Bachelor of Communication Studie
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Mobilities, Communication, and Asia| Essentialist Identities as Resistance to Immobilities: Communicative Mobilities of Vietnamese Foreign Brides in Singapore
No full textGlobal migrations are often associated with, indeed motivated by, upward social mobility. However, the new mobilities paradigm emphasizes structural inequalities of migration mobilities that allow movement for some but mean stasis for others. This article studies the realities of marginalized marriage migrants engaged in the simultaneities of mobilities and immobilities, adopting resistant strategies against structures of social and regulatory oppression. We conducted qualitative interviews and ethnographic research with 33 Vietnamese foreign brides in Singapore. Applying an intersectionality framework reveals that, in response to multiple forms of spatial and social immobilities, the marriage migrants adopted essentialist identities at the intersection of ethnicity, gender, and class. Communication technologies, symbolic of new mobilities, were found to facilitate essentialist expression. The study reveals the complexity of intersectional marginalization and mediated essentialist strategies developed by marriage migrants facing immobilities, contesting dominant views of gender empowerment in postcolonial scholarship on identity
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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