The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life

The Healthy China strategy is an important development objective of the 14th Five-Year Plan and Vision 2035 in China, while health service use in rural China has been a weak link in this strategy. Nowadays, people's health service use will be influenced by digital technology due to the arrival of the Digital Age, and that is the reason why our interest is to discuss the effect of digital life on health service use among rural residents. We use the data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2020 to examine the effect of digital life on health service use among rural residents, and we use Instrumental Variables method to control the endogenous problem and use KHB model to discuss the mechanism of this effect. It was found that digital life has increased the health service use among rural residents significantly, and this result has been verified by robust test and Instrumental Variables method. Besides, digital life can increase health service use through the information channel effect and the health literacy effect indirectly. Moreover, digital life has a more significant impact on the residents with low social capital, low physical capital and low social trust, which represents the inclusivity of digital life. The results of our paper will be helpful to examine the effect of the digital policy on promoting the health service use in rural China, and our findings will provide evidence of how to use digital life to enhance health service use among rural residents. Based on this, the government should take measures to eliminate the digital divide between urban and rural areas by promoting the level of digital life among rural residents, paying more attention to the digital literacy development among them, and forging ahead toward the great goal of the Healthy China under the Digital Age.

This study examined the moderated mediation effect of poverty on the paths between enactive mastery experience in digital life and life satisfaction mediated by digital citizenship and digital life among Korean adolescents using structural equation modelling. This cross-sectional study involved a secondary data analysis of 2020 national data in The Report on the Digital Divide provided by the National Information Society Agency (NIA) of Korea. Data from 1084 Korean adolescents were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 26.0 and SPSS PROCESS macro. The results demonstrated a significant moderated mediation effect of poverty. Enactive mastery experience, which encompasses the self-knowledge, perceived task difficulty, and contextual factors of adolescents living in poverty, was associated with digital life and life satisfaction through the mediation of digital citizenship. For adolescents living in poverty, in contrast to their non-poor counterparts, enactive mastery experience in digital life and digital citizenship are two critical factors in life satisfaction. Therefore, institutional support enabling adolescents and their communities to forge partnerships is necessary to foster these two factors.

The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research

Having good mental health means we are better able to connect, function, cope and thrive. The widespread application of digital technology in daily life provides new ways and promising tools for residents to maintain their mental health. Given the importance of mental health for everyone, and the fact that mental health problems are prevalent worldwide, this study discusses how digital lives affects the mental health of residents. The results suggest that digital lives are significantly and positively associated with mental health. Mechanisms analysis identifies personal perceptions (self-rated physical exercise and subjective wellbeing) as the important paths for digital lives to promote mental health, while social perceptions (social trust and social fairness) play a suppressing effect on the relationship between them. The results of further discussion show that the degree of the influence of digital lives on mental health of individuals is heterogeneous among different regions. Due to the difference in development level, the positive impact of digital lives is greater in urban areas than in rural areas, and it is stronger in western regions than in eastern and central regions. This study enriches the nascent research stream of digitalization, explores new paths of harnessing digital technologies for mental health, and offers useful insights for the government to guide them in formulating digital development strategies and achieving the Healthy China Strategy.

At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization of writing and literacies that is transforming daily life and education. The chapter topics—identified through academic conference networks, rigorous analysis, and database searches of trending themes—are organized thematically in five sections: - Digital Futures - Digital Diversity - Digital Lives - Digital Spaces - Digital Ethics This is an essential guide to digital writing and literacies research, with transformational ideas for educational and professional practice. It will enable new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and to generate new themes of inquiry.

Book Review| February 01 2023 Review: Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture, by Corrina Laughlin Corrina Laughlin. Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 201 pp. Paperback $29.95. Terry Shoemaker Terry Shoemaker TERRY SHOEMAKER is an assistant teaching professor at Arizona State University. He holds advanced degrees in religious studies and has published books and articles on the topics of evangelicals in America, religion and sports, and popular culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (1): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.107 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Terry Shoemaker; Review: Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture, by Corrina Laughlin. California History 1 February 2023; 100 (1): 107–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.107 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search American evangelicals, a politically active and vocal Protestant subgroup, first rose to political prominence in the 1980s, during the Reagan administration. In the past decade, evangelicals reclaimed a prominence in American news and media outlets due to their overwhelming support for the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump. Known for adopting new technological tools, evangelicals have successfully utilized digital resources to spread their message, values, and ethics. However, adoption of technology has many consequences, as Corrina Laughlin argues well in Redeem All: How Digital Life Is Changing Evangelical Culture. Simply stated, the digital world is “reshaping what it means to be an evangelical” (8). As a framework for her study, Laughlin establishes the concept of the “digital habitus,” a relational space that permits individuals to engage with one another and form echo chambers; however, the algorithmic systems that power the digital habitus are not neutral, and they influence the... You do not currently have access to this content.

Rapid innovations in technology have influenced this decade, and the convergence of cultural and digital living has become a revolutionary force that is changing many aspects of our society. The book "Digital Living: Redefining Culture with Technology for Industries, Education, Society & Entrepreneurship" explores the immense impact of this convergence on entrepreneurship, education, industries, and society. It goes into exhaustive detail about the many facets of these effects. This book seeks to throw light on the complex relationship between technology and culture by thoroughly examining a variety of viewpoints and demonstrating both the advantages and disadvantages of digital life in the globalized world of today. The entire book provides knowledge about how technology is changing, how we as a society perceive culture, from the emergence of digital industries to the rethinking of educational paradigms, from the transformation of social dynamics to the encouragement of entrepreneurial efforts. With contributions from 53 experts spanning various fields, each chapter provides valuable insights into the impact of technology on our shared cultural experience. Topics covered include Digital Living, exploring concepts such as Digital DNA, Digital Consumption, Conversational AI, Digital Metamorphosis, Digital Education, and Digitized Workplace Counselling. The Finance section delves into Green Banking, Sustainable Finance, Investment Decision-Making, the Indian Financial Sector, the Indian Stock Market, Financial Performance, Financial Products, and Risk-Taking Behavior. Marketing discussions focus on Social Media Marketing, Influencer Marketing, Online Shopping, Consumer Behavior, and Sustainable Fashion. Human Resources topics encompass Labor Welfare, Women Empowerment, Turnover Contagion, Spiritual and Emotional Intelligence. Finally, the Entrepreneurship & General Management section delves into Online Learning, Gender Inequality, Technology's Impact, the Indian Economy, Student Social Responsibility, Impact of Well-being, Blockchain Technology, and Intellectual Populism

In view of the impact of digital life on residents’ trust, firstly, based on the data of China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this paper analyzes the change of residents’ trust in the era of data flooding. Through basic research and marginal effect analysis, it is found that digital life enhances residents’ trust. Secondly, the robustness of the conclusion is confirmed by constructing a series of models such as ordered probit of instrumental variable (IV-O probit), ordered probit of propensity score matching method (PSM-O probit), and ordered probit Heckman (O-probit-Heckman). Finally, through the mechanism test, it is concluded that digital life can enhance residents’ trust by increasing social activities and forming an inclusive social environment. It will also increase trust by obtaining information and increasing their cognitive level. The conclusion that digital life can enhance residents’ trust is more prominent among urban residents, nonpoor Hukou residents, and Han residents. Further research shows that the breadth and depth of digital life have a positive impact on residents’ trust, and digital life can improve residents’ risk tolerance.

This article examines the conceptual establishment of ‘digital life’, and shapes the Korean Government’s IT policy for its early realisation. The process of selecting core technologies from promising digital services is illustrated by applying the basic concept of digital life to the field of wireless telecommunications in Korea. The article also explores several social, legal, and strategic issues for the successful deployment of digital life and suggests a stepwise approach for an efficient promotion policy. It further proposes that the government should make efforts to create new markets for firms involved in providing digital life equipment and software, by beginning the digitalisation of public services and reinvesting both in the development of a diverse range of more attractive digital services, and in lowering the service prices.

This study describes when and how adolescents engage with their fast-moving and dynamic digital environment as they go about their daily lives. We illustrate a new approach - screenomics - for capturing, visualizing, and analyzing screenomes, the record of individuals' day-to-day digital experiences. Over 500,000 smartphone screenshots provided by four Latino/Hispanic youth, age 14-15 years, from low-income, racial/ethnic minority neighborhoods. Screenomes collected from smartphones for one to three months, as sequences of smartphone screenshots obtained every five seconds that the device is activated, are analyzed using computational machinery for processing images and text, machine learning algorithms, human-labeling, and qualitative inquiry. Adolescents' digital lives differ substantially across persons, days, hours, and minutes. Screenomes highlight the extent of switching among multiple applications, and how each adolescent is exposed to different content at different times for different durations - with apps, food-related content, and sentiment as illustrative examples. We propose that the screenome provides the fine granularity of data needed to study individuals' digital lives, for testing existing theories about media use, and for generation of new theory about the interplay between digital media and development.

Objective: This paper offers methodological reflections on the ethical challenges of researching children’s everyday lives in a digital context, drawing on two studies conducted in different international contexts: the United Kingdom (Everyday Childhoods) and Türkiye (Children’s Individual Privacy at Home and in Digital Environments). Method: Both studies were qualitative and ethnographic in character, concerned with understanding how we can study the digital lives of children in situ – within family relationships, educational settings and the social/leisure worlds of young people. Results and Conclusion: In exploring children’s digital lives across these different spaces, we encountered numerous challenges and tensions that shaped the possibilities of making children’s digital lives researchable. In particular, our work involved navigating moral concerns of what might be considered ‘healthy’, ‘educational’ and ‘appropriate’ digital practices by adults in children’s lives, and children’s concerns of having their digital lives researched by adults. By bringing findings from these studies into conversation with each other, we seek to draw out some of the key learnings about the challenges of researching this increasingly prominent aspect of children’s everyday lives as a moral landscape. By taking two studies from different international contexts, we also consider how dialogues between the studies can generate insights into the particular politics of researching children’s digital lives within particular places and cultures.

Winona State University in 1997 launched its program, providing every student with a computer to enhance his/her studies. Now, in 2009, programs are no longer novelties; they are commonplace with more than 150 programs in higher education institutions across the country.[1] Winona State is a very different institution because of the The program has been woven into the fabric of the institution. Unlike at other institutions within the Minnesota State College and University (MnSCU) system, there are no traditional computer labs on the Winona campus. These specialized rooms for working with technology have given way to anytime, anywhere learning. Any room on campus can be turned into a learning space that provides students and faculty with the world's information resources at hand. Innovative pedagogies are in practice on campus with current action research projects looking at e-books and enhanced communications with students. Winona State's experiment with e-books is possible because of the universal program.Winona State's new buildings on campus (i.e., science building, library, Maxwell renovation) were designed around a mobile computing environment. All the building spaces and equipment, including science labs, require that students have computers. This mobile computing environment has allowed Winona State to create more efficient teaching and learning spaces even to connect high-tech science equipment. The design of the new Wellness Center also incorporates the realities of mobile computing.Since 1997, the program has become more than just a laptop program. The name no longer describes its holistic impact on the academic programming of Winona State. With the blessing of the Winona State Student Association, the name of the program was changed in January 2009 to the e-Warrior: Digital Life and Learning Program.After 10 years, Winona State is still gaining experience with its Digital Life and Learning Program. The program continues to evolve as more faculty and students familiarize themselves with the changing needs of students, and Winona State will continue to learn more about the role of the program's impact on its students' educational opportunities for years to come. As Winona State continues to evolve, the program at its core will always be about enhancing student success. This paper will focus on lessons learned over at Winona State University at its Digital Life and Learning Program.

For scholars exploring digital youth cultures, creative research methods offer the potential to disrupt existing power imbalances, form empowering creative practices or closely engage with knowledge production that is dynamic, embodied and socially contextual. Yet the experience of doing creative research methods poses challenges that are often under- or unacknowledged in our work.
 This roundtable brings together researchers from different countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, and the United Kingdom), career stages, and with differing methodological expertise to discuss the ethical, personal, theoretical and methodological challenges of creative methods research to understand intersectionally diverse groups of young people and their digitally lives.
 In the spirit of creative methods, our roundtable opens with a short creative, hands-on task that encourages reflection on the following aspects of researching young people’s digital lives: approaching ethics, anonymity, care and vulnerability; choosing suitable research methods; including young people in research; rethinking what counts as “data”; and publishing research results.
 We will then share brief summaries of our research, addressing ethical challenges at different stages of the research process; from diversity in recruitment and interactions between research designs and young people’s digital lives, to representations of young voices in academic writing and young people’s possibilities of long-term commitments in participatory research. We want to emphasize the importance of openly discussing the challenges we face as researchers but also as practitioners, educators and activists, and we will invite participants to discuss their own research relating to creative methods, ethics and youth digital cultures.
 Our work emphasises the political and pedagogical need for research that approaches young people’s diverse media practices through respectful listening and co-production methods. Additionally, we wish to reflect on our own positions as researchers and feminists, and on which perspectives we can represent and which we cannot.

Leveraging ICTs for Better Lives: The Introduction of an Index on Digital Life

Digital life, the creation and study of manmade systems that exhibits characteristics of life, offers a method of investigation into essential properties of life. Digital life system SEBRED, which extends upon previous system Avida, was designed to help in investigations into the sexual reproduction. The sexual reproduction mechanism of digital life is designed by utilizing the genetic programming principle in this paper, the cross breeding mechanism of natural life is introduced into digital life, and the cross breeding mechanism of digital life is designed, so as to avoid the disadvantage of inbreeding reproduction and improve the life feature of digital life