Immigrant Women's Reasoning and Use of Information and Communications Technology in Lifelong Learning

Hallberg, David; Hansson, Henrik; Nilsson, Anders

doi:10.7577/seminar.2339

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“…The afore-going explication is useful in considering the interrelatedness of digital and social inequities in terms of access [29]. For instance, inequalities to access in terms of barriers to digital technology use are associated with issues such as affordability, linguistics [35,36], poor ICT literacy [35], lack of awareness [37], time constraints [37] and cultural dissimilarities [36].…”

Section: Inequities In Access During Participation In Slpmentioning

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Sustainable Pathways for SLP Provisioning amid a National Health Crisis: A Newspaper Review

Edwin De Klerk,

June Palmer,

Motalenyane Modise

2023

Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 1

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Limited studies provide an analytical lens of students’ experiences of access to digital technology in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as portrayed by newspapers, particularly during times of a global pandemic, particularly COVID-19. This chapter addressed the question: What sustainable pathways for short learning programme (SLP) provisioning can be suggested to address access inequalities amid a national health crisis as reflected in South African newspapers? To avert the potentially devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst still retorting to students’ needs, HEIs must consider a kaleidoscope of approaches and implement strategies to effectively deliver online teaching and learning using digital technology. Having applied discourse analysis to articles that appeared in an array of South African newspapers, the findings revealed that access to digital technology and competence in digital literacy might afford HEIs an opportunity to address challenges experienced by SLP students. The findings reveal further that a consideration of such pathways may increase students’ access, confidence and performance in online learning activities.

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Section: Inequities In Access During Participation In Slpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Pathways for SLP Provisioning amid a National Health Crisis: A Newspaper Review

Edwin De Klerk,

June Palmer,

Motalenyane Modise

2023

Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 1

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“…Vodanovich et al (2010) discovered that barriers to IT adoption faced by women in Islamic world are unique from that of the rest of the world. Based on national statistics and prior field-studies conducted in Kenya, Bolivia, Cameroon, and Sri Lanka, Hallberg et al, 2014 found that national policies and regulations affect the everyday adoption of IT by women in respective countries. Bankole et al (2011) applied the UTAUT model, an extension of TAM, to study the factors affecting the adoption of mobile banking in Nigeria; however, culture, a noncognitive factor, emerged as the most influential factor affecting the adoption behavior of mobile banking users.…”

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Applying Information Science Lens for Advancing Critical Research on IT Adoption

Potnis

2015

International Journal of Technology Diffusion

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Critical research on IT adoption dominated by cognitive models grounded in psychology and communication is always in search of new theoretical perspectives to understand, explain, and interpret social issues. Since information plays an important role in IT adoption, this study applies an information science lens to investigate the factors affecting the continued usage of mobile phones in rural India. Analysis of interviews with 22 women earning less than a dollar day reveals the influence of social, economic, cognitive, technological, and information-related factors on their continued usage of mobiles. Micro- and meso-level socioeconomic motives and active information-seeking behavior emerge as the most significant factors encouraging respondents to continue using mobiles against several technical and human barriers. The application of information science lens yields three constructs and ten micro-, meso-, and macro-level variables, advancing critical research on IT adoption with the help of a theoretical lens outside of psychology and communication literature.

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‘Just having a computer doesn’t make sense’: The digital divide from the perspective of mothers with a low socio-economic position

Goedhart¹,

Broerse

Kattouw

et al. 2019

New Media & Society

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The introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been shown to play a role in reinforcing existing social inequalities. This study aims to gain insights into the perspectives, experiences and needs of disadvantaged groups with respect to ICT. In the Netherlands, a relatively large and important group of non-users are mothers with a low socio-economic position (SEP). Little attention has been paid to understanding why mothers with a low SEP scarcely use ICTs. In an explorative participatory study in Amsterdam, using observations, interviews and focus groups, our results show that reinforcing factors related to poverty, motherhood, the complexity of ICT and being first-generation immigrant influence access. The mothers’ needs are multifaceted and go beyond the simple distribution of ICT devices. ICT education should be tailored and integrated into existing social services and the daily lives of the mothers. Moreover, policymakers should pay attention to adapting the online information services to the mothers’ strengths.

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Immigrant Women's Reasoning and Use of Information and Communications Technology in Lifelong Learning

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Sustainable Pathways for SLP Provisioning amid a National Health Crisis: A Newspaper Review

Sustainable Pathways for SLP Provisioning amid a National Health Crisis: A Newspaper Review

Applying Information Science Lens for Advancing Critical Research on IT Adoption

‘Just having a computer doesn’t make sense’: The digital divide from the perspective of mothers with a low socio-economic position

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