Showing papers by "Wenhong Chen published in 2015"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present current research on multiple aspects of digital inequality, defined expansively in terms of access, usage, skills, and self-perceptions, as well as future lines of research.
Abstract: While the field of digital inequality continues to expand in many directions, the relationship between digital inequalities and other forms of inequality has yet to be fully appreciated. This article invites social scientists in and outside the field of digital media studies to attend to digital inequality, both as a substantive problem and as a methodological concern. The authors present current research on multiple aspects of digital inequality, defined expansively in terms of access, usage, skills, and self-perceptions, as well as future lines of research. Each of the contributions makes the case that digital inequality deserves a place alongside more traditional forms of inequality in the twenty-first century pantheon of inequalities. Digital inequality should not be only the preserve of specialists but should make its way into the work of social scientists concerned with a broad range of outcomes connected to life chances and life trajectories. As we argue, the significance of digital inequalities is...
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TL;DR: This study examines how Facebook interaction is related to various types of social support-enacted receiving and giving social support on Facebook and perceived social support in general.
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TL;DR: It is found that children play a role in including their parents in the digital environment, particularly among women, people who are older (35 years old and above), and belong to lower socio-economic groups, and this bottom-up technology transmission is somewhat negatively associated with parents’ internet self-efficacy.
Abstract: This study investigated to what extent sons and daughters influence their parents’ adoption of digital media, particularly the internet, compared to other influence sources. It also explored structural factors that play a role in this bottom-up process, such as socio-economic differences and gender. Finally, it examined the relationship between this bottom-up technology transmission process and parents’ levels of internet self-efficacy and online activities. Drawing from socialization and diffusion of innovation research and using a self-administered random mail survey, we found that children play a role in including their parents in the digital environment, particularly among women, people who are older (35 years old and above), and belong to lower socio-economic groups. We also found that this bottom-up technology transmission is somewhat negatively associated with parents’ internet self-efficacy. Implications and possible interpretations of these results are discussed.
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TL;DR: Overall, social capital and coplaying patterns appear to have significant health implications for participants in online games.
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TL;DR: Findings suggest that structural holes in association with the emotion of surprise, used as a proxy for the perception of novelty, offer a good representation of people's behavior when they select contents, and are valuable arguments to enhance content personalization with new perspectives for receivers.
9 citations
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: Chen et al. as discussed by the authors take stock, moving forward: the Internet, social networks and civic engagement in Chinese societies Wenhong Chen 2. Transnational immanence: the autopoietic co-constitution of a Chinese spiritual organization through mediated communication Pauline Hope Cheong, Jennie M. Hwang and Boris H.M.J. Brummans 3. Derailed emotions: the transformation of claims and targets during the Wenzhou online incident Maria Bondes and Gunter Schucher 5.
Abstract: 1. Taking stock, moving forward: the Internet, social networks and civic engagement in Chinese societies Wenhong Chen 2. Transnational immanence: the autopoietic co-constitution of a Chinese spiritual organization through mediated communication Pauline Hope Cheong, Jennie M. Hwang and Boris H.J.M. Brummans 3. Online political participation, civic talk, and media multiplexity: how Taiwanese citizens express political opinions on the Web Yuli Patrick Hsieh and Meng-Hao Li 4. Derailed emotions: The transformation of claims and targets during the Wenzhou online incident Maria Bondes and Gunter Schucher 5. Weibo communication and government legitimacy in China: a computer-assisted analysis of Weibo messages on two 'mass incidents' Jingrong Tong and Landong Zuo 6. Weibo network, information diffusion and implications for collective action in China Ronggui Huang and Xiaoyi Sun 7. Expanding civic engagement in China: Super Girl and entertainment-based online community Jingsi Christina Wu 8. Regional variation in Chinese internet filtering Joss Wright
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