SGER: Integrating Diverse Data to Explore Adolescents' Information Technology Uses

SGER：整合不同数据探索青少年的信息技术使用情况

• 批准号: 0712874
• 负责人: Eszter Hargittai
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0712874&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Integrating; Diverse; Data; Explore

The growing diffusion of new media raises questions about people's ability to appropriate new technologies for their empowerment. While information technologies (IT) have become a staple of adolescents' lives, we know very little about general trends in the use of specific types of services. Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook are used by millions of people daily, are constantly the topic of popular debates and have also become the target of legislation. Yet there is very little systematic work that looks at young people's uses of such online services.Through original data collection, the overall project will allow us to (1) develop a baseline understanding of college students' Internet uses, participation and skill and how IT uses are integrated into adolescents' everyday lives; (2) implement and assess a training intervention targeting improved use, participation and skill; and (3) make methodological advancements regarding information integration from diverse data sources based on surveys, observations and mobile computing applications related to people's everyday communication practices, methods that will be generalizable to the study of IT uses by different groups.Intellectual MeritThere has been considerable debate about whether information technologies are alleviating or contributing to social inequality. Related research tends to focus on access differences with little emphasis on the disparities among users especially concerning a fully wired population. There is little systematic analysis of adolescents' digital media uses based on a representative large sample. Broader ImpactsAs the use of digital media diversifies with people relying on multiple devices to keep in contact with their networks and access content, it is essential that we develop ways in which we can collect and integrate data about the diverse nature of user practices. The methods developed in this project will be relevant to more and more types of data collection in the future as research on users catches up with media use trends and integrates user practices into data collection procedures.

新媒体的日益普及使人们对是否有能力利用新技术增强自己的权能产生了疑问。虽然信息技术已成为青少年生活的主要内容，但我们对使用特定类型服务的一般趋势知之甚少。MySpace和Facebook等网站每天有数百万人使用，经常成为流行辩论的话题，也成为立法的目标。通过原始数据的收集，整个项目将使我们能够（1）对大学生的互联网使用、参与和技能以及如何将信息技术的使用融入青少年的日常生活形成一个基线了解;（2）实施和评估一项旨在改善使用、参与和技能的培训干预措施;（3）评估一项旨在改善使用、参与和技能的培训干预措施。（3）通过调查、观察、移动的计算机应用等与人们的日常交流相关的方法，对来自不同数据源的信息进行整合，从而在方法上取得进步，并将其推广到不同群体的信息技术使用研究中。知识价值关于信息技术是否正在缓解或助长社会不平等，一直存在着相当大的争论。相关研究往往侧重于接入差异，很少强调用户之间的差异，特别是关于一个完全有线的人口。很少有系统的分析，青少年的数字媒体使用的基础上，一个有代表性的大样本。更广泛的影响随着数字媒体的使用多样化，人们依赖多种设备与其网络保持联系并访问内容，我们必须开发收集和整合有关用户行为多样性的数据的方法。随着对用户的研究跟上媒体使用趋势，并将用户做法纳入数据收集程序，本项目开发的方法将适用于今后越来越多类型的数据收集。