Mobile phones and the experience of time: New perspectives from a deprivation study of teenagers

Rosenberg, Hananel; Blondheim, Menahem; Porat, Chen Sabag-Ben

doi:10.1177/0961463x221077492

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“…However, as far as we know, these groups did not use telephone channels when it came to learning. In Israel, especially among teenagers, cell phone is a very dominant part of the lifestyle (Ophir et al, 2020;Rosenberg et al, 2022), but this is not the case in ultra-Orthodox society. In Amish communities in the U.S., where there is no access to digital communications at home, access to landlines and cell phones is also limited, and distance learning mostly takes place independently using printed workbooks (Lynch, 2020).…”

Section: Ultra-orthodox Society's Attitude Toward Digital Mediamentioning

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Ultra-Orthodox Telelearning During COVID-19: Parent, Teacher, and Principal Perspectives on Its Effectiveness

Rosenberg,

Sabag-Ben Porat,

Billig

2023

JITE:Research

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Aim/Purpose: This study addresses telephone learning channels during the coronavirus period in the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel. The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of the online and recorded telephone channels and the way they were perceived by the student’s parents and educators. Background: The ultra-orthodox society’s lack of use of online means has created many distant learning challenges for learners and educators. Methodology: The study combines quantitative and qualitative methods based on a comprehensive survey of parents of elementary school-aged children (N=395) and semistructured interviews (N=45) with parents, principals, and teachers in ultra-Orthodox schools. Contribution: The study describes a unique learning system in a unique population group, which does not use online means, from various points of view in the educational system. Findings: The results of the study indicate that parent attitudes toward telephonic learning – synchronous and asynchronous – are critical and that evaluations of its effectiveness are negative and ineffective. This evaluation stems from a variety of challenges faced by the learners: technical challenges related to the problematic infrastructure and terminal accessibility issues; didactic challenges related to adapting the learning style to the character of the students and their age; challenges arising from the characteristics of the medium: the lack of a visual dimension, its function as a one-way channel, and the lack of potential for effective interactivity; and the need for parental involvement and spatial challenges resulting from the crowded and limited learning space at home. Recommendations for Practitioners: Based on the research results, and in order to meet the challenges of a future pandemic or similarly disruptive crisis, telelearning spaces must be improved significantly. Recommendation for Researchers: The results can be used to examine how other unique communities, especially those that avoid the use of online means, are managing distance learning in a crisis. Impact on Society: It was found that telephone learning in ultra-Orthodox society during COVID-19 failed to realize the learning potential inherent in this channel for a number of reasons discussed in the article and failed to create the learning conditions necessary for telephone learning to succeed, as demonstrated in previous studies. Future Research: In a similarly disruptive crisis, future research should see whether or how telelearning spaces have improved or whether other learning methods have been adopted by the ultra-orthodox public.

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Section: Ultra-orthodox Society's Attitude Toward Digital Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Ultra-Orthodox Telelearning During COVID-19: Parent, Teacher, and Principal Perspectives on Its Effectiveness

Rosenberg,

Sabag-Ben Porat,

Billig

2023

JITE:Research

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Is Too Much Time on the Internet Making us Less Satisfied with Life?

Suárez Álvarez,

Vicente

2024

Applied Research Quality Life

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The Internet’s profound impact on society, communication, and the global economy is undeniable. Despite the studies on Internet adoption and frequency of use, little attention has been given to the intensity of usage as measured by the time spent online. In highly developed countries like the European ones, bridging the access gap is nowadays less relevant, as almost everyone has Internet access. Instead, the focus should be on analysing usage intensity to uncover new digital disparities among different groups and understand potential impacts on individuals' subjective well-being (SWB).This study aims to deeply examine Internet usage time, its socioeconomic determinants, and its effects on SWB using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) spanning from 2016 to 2020–22 in 21 European countries. We seek to answer two research questions: (1) How do individuals' characteristics influence Internet usage intensity? (2) What is the impact of Internet usage intensity on individuals' SWB?Our findings show inequalities in Internet usage time driven by individuals' socioeconomic and sociodemographic characteristics. Traditionally disadvantaged groups, both offline and online, exhibit lower Internet usage time, consistent with the existing literature on the digital divide. As for the effect of intensity of Internet use on SWB, after accounting for individuals' characteristics and addressing Internet's endogeneity, we found a negative and significant relationship between Internet usage intensity and life satisfaction, especially for the most intensive internet users.

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Hilltop Youth and New Media: The Formation of a Young Religious Digital-Resistance Community

Rosenberg

Vogelman-Natan

2023

Religions

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“Hilltop youth” is the name for young religious Jewish people in Israel who, separated from their families, are living in illegal outposts on hilltops throughout Judea and Samaria. The group’s unique religious, sociological, and ideological characteristics differentiate them from other religious communities previously studied in relation to digital culture. In this study, we offer a new angle that provides insight into the hilltop youth’s religious–ideological perception while focusing on their attitude toward new media, smartphones, and social networks, in particular, an attitude that is part of their self-definition as a separatist community. The findings present and discuss the different layers represented within the hilltop youth’s media resistance and how this media-negating ideological position shapes the group’s perception as a religious community that is a counterculture to religious and social sectors in Israel.

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Mobile phones and the experience of time: New perspectives from a deprivation study of teenagers

Cited by 3 publications

References 51 publications

Ultra-Orthodox Telelearning During COVID-19: Parent, Teacher, and Principal Perspectives on Its Effectiveness

Ultra-Orthodox Telelearning During COVID-19: Parent, Teacher, and Principal Perspectives on Its Effectiveness

Is Too Much Time on the Internet Making us Less Satisfied with Life?

Hilltop Youth and New Media: The Formation of a Young Religious Digital-Resistance Community

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