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Development and evaluation of an online intervention to promote effective and safe social media use among high functioning autistic young adults in Hong Kong
No full textAutistic people experience frequent failures in social situations due to their limitations in social interaction and are vulnerable to developing various psychological problems. Social media can be a potential solution as it allows non-face-to-face social interactions, but it can also produce different kinds of risks. This research aimed at developing and evaluating a tailor-made intervention to promote effective and safe social media use targeting autistic people.
To design the mode of intervention delivery, a systematic literature review was first conducted to investigate whether online intervention could be an effective format of intervention for autistic people. Results supported that online intervention could be effective especially when the intervention recruited participants of older age (over nine years old), targeted practical skills which could be readily applied, and made use of training materials which resembled what could be seen in daily lives. Contents of intervention were designed based on a subsequent qualitative research which explored the social media use experiences as well as its associated benefits and risks among thirteen local high functioning autistic young adults through individual interviews. Findings suggested that while social media could broaden their social network, it could paradoxically intensify their sense of loneliness and rejection. In addition, the unique characteristics of autism could result in higher risks of unpleasant events like cyberbullying, online scams and problematic online purchase. These findings provided valuable information to design a culturally-sensitive intervention.
Based on these findings, an online workshop, named as ‘SoMeA’ (Social Media use for Autistic people), was developed. Its effectiveness in promoting safe and effective social media use was evaluated in a cluster randomized controlled trial. Recruitment was conducted in collaboration with three local community centers. Participants who were randomly assigned to the intervention group received the three-session SoMeA, while those in control group received standard treatment in their centers. Main contents of SoMeA included (1) teaching common emoji expressions and internet slangs; (2) promoting awareness and skills to make friends safely through online; (3) promoting awareness and skills concerning safe online purchase and avoiding online scams. Training strategies were carefully designed to facilitate skills generalization, such as using the Chat-box function in Zoom and simulation game to practice how to respond to risky requests. Evaluation was designed based on Information, Motivation and Behavioral Skills model.
Thirty-four autistic young adults were recruited, sixteen were randomly assigned to the intervention group while eighteen as the control. Results showed that those in the intervention group reported significant higher self-efficacy in safe and effective social media use after completing SoMeA comparing with the control, and this effect remained significant after controlling for confounding variables. Positive feedback towards SoMeA was also received from participants.
Our findings suggested that SoMeA could promote self-efficacy in safe and effective social media use among local high functioning autistic young adults. SoMeA can be used as a useful supplementary tool among social workers or teachers who work with this group, which can potentially maximize the gains and minimize the risks associated with social media use.published_or_final_versionFamily Medicine and Primary CareDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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