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Are smartphones transforming parent-child everyday life practices? A cross-generational qualitative study comparing parents' and early adolescents' representations.
No full textOver the last decade, a substantial number of studies has aimed to understand the role of smartphones in parent-child communication as well as in youth cultures; however, little attention has been given to the systematic analysis of what dimensions of parent-child everyday life communication and practices have been transformed by the usage of smartphones. The present study builds upon the Couple and Family Technology Framework (CFTF), to investigate parents’ and children’s representations of the impact of smartphones on family structure and process as well as the similarities and differences between parents’ and children’s representations. Fifteen parents (9 mothers, 6 fathers; M = 46.07; SD = 4.25) and 15 early adolescents (7 females, 8 males; M = 11.73; SD = 0.46) participated in six focus. The analyses showed that: (a) parents of early adolescents use smartphones’ for several everyday life tasks; (b) according to both parents and children smartphones facilitate organizational tasks; (c) smartphones have more impact on family structure dimensions (especially, family rules and roles) than on family process dimensions (intimacy, formation and maintenance of relationships); (d) parents and children’s representations diverged only on structure dimensions; (e) gender differences with respect to smartphones representations emerged on both parents and children’s groups. These findings pave the way for further investigations on the role of smartphones in family dynamics and their practical implications on parents and children’s everyday life practices
Fostering Children’s Digital Skills Development for Safer and Positive Use of Digital Technology and Social Emotional Well-being through the Application of Innovative Educational Technologies
No full textThis thesis aimed to contribute to research on the promotion of children’s safe and positive use of digital technologies (DT) and ultimately their wellbeing through the development of digital skills. The literature showed a scarcity of research with preadolescents and a need for both a better conceptualisation of DT use and the identification of digital skills dimensions related to positive use. Moreover, studies on digital skills training programmes for children were scarce and further evidence was needed to inform best education and social policies, in particular in the participant countries, Ireland and Italy. To address these gaps, this thesis had four aims: (1) to clarify the concept of digital technology use and its relation to preadolescents wellbeing (2) to investigate if and what dimensions of digital skills are related to safe and positive use of (3) to develop and test an innovative educational programme to foster children’s digital skills for safer and positive use of DT (4) to devise best educational practices and recommendations for policy. Four studies were conducted in two countries, the Republic of Ireland and Italy, using a mixed-methods design and a child-centred perspective. The partnership with an Irish charity concerned with Internet safety, CyberSafeKids (CSK) was core to the research project implementation. Overall, 866 preadolescents (aged 10-11) were recruited in 15 schools across the two countries. Results showed that: (1) The literature focussed on children’s negative use of DT, mostly referring to ‘addictive use’, or negative experiences; also, the complex bidirectional relationship between DT use and wellbeing was highlighted, emphasising the role of interpersonal issues and negative emotions as main factors related to use and impacting on wellbeing. (2) Information and communication digital skills were core to preadolescents’ safer and positive use of DT; (3) The innovative digital skills e-learning programme – developed in collaboration with CSK – was an engaging and effective educational tool to foster children’s digital skills, easily scalable in primary schools. (4) Preadolescents’ views on improving current education and social practice and policies both in Italy and Ireland concern the need for better regulations on access to platforms, which should be suited for their age, and the involvement of schools, families and the media industry to tackle the problem. Italian preadolescents underscored both the risk of engaging in potentially harmful behaviours and the need to have the critical skills to avoid them. Overall, findings across the four studies demonstrate the complexity of DT positive use and the possibility of fostering preadolescents’ information and communication skills through education intervention and better regulations. In this vein, children claimed the need for ‘adults’ to collaborate to allow them to benefit from DT use positively and safely. Implications for theory, methodology, educational practices and policy are discussed.Appendices2025-11-12 JG: Signatures removed from PD
Unpacking the relation between children's use of digital technologies and children's well-being: a scoping review.
No full textOver the last decade, a substantial number of studies have addressed children's use of technologies and their impact on well-being. Nonetheless, there is still a lack of clarity on the operationalisation of technology use, well-being, and the relation between the two. This scoping review intended to shed lights on Digital Technologies Use, its operationalisation, and the relation between Digital Technologies Negative Use (DTNU) and children's well-being. For the scope of the special issue we focused on negative use. Results showed two conceptualisations of DTNU: compulsive/addictive use of devices and the Internet (e.g., Internet addiction) and negative online experiences/risky behaviours (e.g., cyberbullying). Well-being in relation to DTNU was mainly studied in terms of psycho/social dimensions (e.g., depression), and a gap in cognitive well-being studies was identified. Study designs were largely quantitative, and, in most studies, well-being was considered as a predictor of DTNU. Also, research with children under 12 years was lacking. Future research on DTNU should look at: how dimensions of addiction and negative online experiences relate; provide more evidence on cognitive well-being; explore the interplay of well-being multiple components relying on integrative conceptual frameworks. The recent notion of digital well-being should also be explored considering the results of this review
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Navigare la complessità del ruolo dei media digitali nelle vite di bambini e adolescenti: Una prospettiva psico-sociale
No full textFrancesco ha 12 anni e frequenta la seconda media, è un ragazzino tranquillo che conosco da quando è piccolo. È figlio unico e abita insieme ai genitori in una piccola cittadina dell’Appennino dove lavoro. Nella prima infanzia ha offerto di bronchit asmatiche ricorrenti con alcuni ricoveri ospedalieri e necessità di terapia inalatoria con broncodilatatori e corticosteroidi. Con la crescita il problema respiratorio è progressivamente miglio rato e Francesco non ha più necessitato di terapia cronica. Durante l’ultima visita, avvenuta nell’estate tra la quinta elementare e l’inizio della prima media, Francesco mi racconta di essere contento di iniziare la scuola media anche perché finalmente riceverà lo smartphone in regalo, visto che dovrà andare a scuola in autobus da solo. Discutiamo assieme alla famiglia su luci e ombre di questo importante strumento di comunicazione
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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