Features fostering academic and social integration in blended synchronous courses in graduate programs

S Lakhal, J Mukamurera, ME Bédard… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to examine the features that foster the academic and social
integration of students enrolled in blended synchronous courses (BSC). Many studies and …

Social participation of the elderly in China: The roles of conventional media, digital access and social media engagement

T He, C Huang, M Li, Y Zhou, S Li - Telematics and Informatics, 2020 - Elsevier
China is the most rapidly aging country and has the largest aging population in the world.
However, social participation is an important intervention to boost the active and healthy …

Health applications of gerontechnology, privacy, and surveillance: a scoping review

LF Carver, D Mackinnon - Surveillance & Society, 2020 - ojs.library.queensu.ca
In this era of technological advances designed to assist older adults to age in place and
monitor health challenges, the emphasis has been on the surveillance of older adults for …

Online privacy concerns and privacy protection strategies among older adults in East York, Canada

A Quan‐Haase, D Ho - Journal of the Association for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As news headlines report on high‐profile online privacy breaches and the potential negative
consequences for users, users are becoming concerned about their privacy. While much …

Silver surfers from a European perspective: technology communication usage among European seniors

S Vulpe, A Crăciun - European Journal of Ageing, 2020 - Springer
Filling a gap in our understanding of how senior citizens use information and communication
technologies (ICTs), we identified several profiles of technology communication use among …

The gratifications in the experience of the use of social media and its impact on the purchase and repurchase of products and services

M Santos Corrada, JA Flecha, E Lopez - European Business Review, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of social media and its impact on
information search, communication with a company, and purchase and re-purchases of …

Implications of digital inclusion: Digitalization in terms of time use from a gender perspective

L Arroyo - Social Inclusion, 2020 - ssoar.info
The implications of digital technologies for the transformation of gender relations and
identities have been discussed since the early days of the internet. Although gender studies …

The impact of aphasia on Internet and technology use

F Menger, J Morris, C Salis - Disability and rehabilitation, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Purpose: This study compared Internet use post-stroke in people with aphasia (n=
25) and without aphasia (n= 17). The purpose was to understand how people with aphasia …

Does political efficacy equally predict news engagement across countries? A multilevel analysis of the relationship among internal political efficacy, media …

S Lu, LR Luqiu - New Media & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This study serves as the first to examine the mechanism of news engagement with regard to
the three proposed dimensions (ie overall news engagement, user-user news engagement …

Understanding older adults' preferences for and motivations to use traditional and new ICT in light of socioemotional selectivity and selection, optimization, and …

P Joshi, A Kononova, S Cotten - International Journal of Communication, 2020 - ijoc.org
We explored older adults' use of a wide range of traditional and new ICTs under the
framework of socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) and selection, optimization, and …