Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts: Barriers and facilitating access conditions

Abstract

Mobile phones have become central to family members' daily communication. This study investigates the material and skills access barriers that parents of adolescents in resourceconstrained contexts face for mobile relational maintenance. Following an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, interviews with parents in Bogotá, Colombia explored how they managed to keep in touch with their children despite facing access barriers and how these barriers still affected their parent-child mobile interactions. A survey was conducted in the quantitative phase to confirm the relationship patterns suggested by qualitative findings. Financial, cognitive, and environmental resources constituted access barriers. Despite gaining material access through alternative social and environmental resources, the barriers they faced still influenced the nature and frequency of their parent-child mobile interactions. Findings also showed that cognitive barriers, observed as parents' low levels of perceived capability to learn how to use mobile phones, affected parents' text messaging through their acquisition of skills.

Kesenjangan Digital Pada Keluarga Jawa Di Kabupaten Wonosobo

“…Teknologi digital dapat mencegah masalah dalam keluarga, dan juga sebaliknya teknologi digital dapat menimbulkan masalah dalam keluarga (Barrie et al, 2019). Penelitian mengenai keluarga dan teknologi digital sudah banyak dilakukan, penelitian-penelitian tersebut berfokus pada: 1) dampak penggunaan teknologi digital bagi internal keluarga (Barrie et al, 2019;Dong et al, 2021;Setiansah et al, 2019;Velasquez, 2018); 2) latar belakang keluarga yang menjadi penyebab kesenjangan digital (Bonal & González, 2020;Katz et al, 2019;Liu & Wang, 2021;Scheerder et al, 2019bScheerder et al, , 2020Zhang et al, 2020;Zhong et al, 2021); 3) Peran keluarga dan/atau anggota keluarga dalam penggunaan teknologi digital anggota keluarga lainnya (Dong et al, 2021;Katz et al, 2019;Plaza-De-La-Hoz & Caro, 2018;Rosales & Blanche-T, 2021;Xiong & Zuo, 2019) Melihat fokus penelitian-penelitian yang sudah ada sebelumnya, bisa diamati bahwa situasi problematis yang dihadapi keluarga didasari pada kondisi keluarga yang didalamnya terdiri dari anggota keluarga yang berbeda umur atau generasi (keluarga lintas generasi). Hasil studi penelitian Barrie, John, dan Timothy (2019) menyebutkan bahwa teknologi komunikasi digital saat ini memainkan peran yang beragam dalam kehidupan keluarga lintas generasi.…”

Development and psychometric properties of the Digital Difficulties Scale (DDS): An instrument to measure who is disadvantaged to fulfill basic needs by experiencing difficulties in using a smartphone or computer

“…The unequal access to or adoption of smartphones, computers, and internet is the focus of digital inequality research or digital divide research [8,9]. Research within this domain has repeatedly demonstrated that a significant amount of individuals lack access, knowledge, positive attitudes, skills or support to adopt a smartphone, computer or internet in general as well as for specific uses, such as using a search engine, using a word processor, making new contacts online, or buying a product online, both in developed and developing countries, in disabled and non-disabled populations, among poor and non-poor, and across old and young individuals [6,7,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21].…”