The challenge of e-participation in the digital city: Exploring generational influences among community telecentre users

Bailey, Arlene; Ngwenyama, Ojelanki

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2010.09.004

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“…But not all older adults received the help and support needed to become confident users from family members, and for such older adults support from the community, often involving young people, organized formally by neighborhood and community groups is providing a vital resource supporting older people sustain their use of digital technologies. (emphasis added) This finding, and others like it found in studies from Jamaica (Bailey & Ngwenyama 2011), Spain (Sayago & Blat 2010), China (Xie 2005), and the U.S. (Bowen et al 2014), suggest that groups and institutions in local communities play important roles in the digital learning practices of older adults.…”

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confidence: 68%

The Community-Based Information Infrastructure of Older Adult Digital Learning

Lenstra¹

2017

Nordicom Review

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In the United States of America, senior centers and public libraries are ubiquitous social institutions found in virtually every municipality. This article analyses these institutions as community-based information infrastructure in the digital learning practices of older adults. Older adults turn to these institutions to learn technology in retirement. How learning takes place in these spaces is shaped both by the institutions, and by the older adults. Negotiations between institutions and older adults shape digital learning. These negotiations are shaped by societal ageism. This article shows that older adults are not passive participants in technology learning, using services provided for them by others, but instead actively shape both how learning services are proffered and the institutional contexts in which these services exist. By learning to embrace the agency of older adults, these under-funded public institutions could powerfully reconfigure themselves for an information society that is also ageing.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 68%

The Community-Based Information Infrastructure of Older Adult Digital Learning

Lenstra¹

2017

Nordicom Review

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“…Although prior investigations have extensively studied SRs of ICTs (Contarello, Fortunati, & Sarrica, 2007;Sensales, 1990) and their reflection on identities, cultures, and social changes (Contarello, Nencini, & Sarrica, 2007;Durieux, 2003), to date few studies have incorporated such a perspective into endeavours devoted to the use of ICTs for promoting socio-and economic development (Bailey & Ngwenyama, 2011). Nevertheless, the study of SRs is particularly interesting in the field, where technology-related phenomena are often new and exogenous to specific communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Public access venues and community empowerment in Mozambique: a social representation study

Rega

Vannini

2018

Semiotica

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This article uses the theoretical construct of Social Representations to investigate howCommunity Multimedia Centres (CMCs) -venues that offer public access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to underserved communities -are perceived by communities in Mozambique, and it discusses how the local population understands these venues as means to foster community empowerment and socio-economic development. In total 113 participants took part in the study, from six CMCs in different towns of Mozambique. Participants were represented from three different social groups, according to their use of the CMC: staff members, users of both CMC components -telecenter and radio -and radio-only users. The article analyses the Social Representations' structure, using a Prototypical approach.Findings show that CMCs are seen by local communities as places at which they can receive and exchange information, and also as learning spaces, with the telecenter part focused on the delivery of ICT training and the radio component engaging with educational activities and services in a broader sense. Furthermore, CMCs are perceived as places dedicated almost exclusively to children and young people. The results of this study can help policy makers, practitioners, funding agencies and other relevant stakeholders to improve Mozambican CMCs and leverage their community empowerment potential. 2

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“…The use of ICT has long been anticipated to be a significant tool for greater and more effective political participation (Bailey and Ngwenyama, 2011, Komito, 2005, Macintosh and Whyte, 2006Mossberger et al, 2013, Salmat et al, 2011, but the question here is how to combine the presentation of open data in a meaningful way with an interactive contribution to policy making.…”

Section: Data Visualization and E-participation Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%