TOP TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN COMMUNICATION
Links of Interest
We are excited to debut a link page of articles and research related to technology in a variety of venues. Many, many thanks to Marcia Zorn from the National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health, for passing on these links. Do you have any favorite links you wish to share? Please pass them on to Rodney and Shannon.
Diversity
Your Guide to the Digital Divide by Mark Glaser gives an overview of the digital media revolution, annotated with online resources and tips. http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/01/digging_deeperyour_guide_to_th.html
Latinos Online [Pew Hispanic Center Release] by Susannah Fox and Gretchen Livingston, is based on telephone surveys of 6,016 Latino adults, aged 18+, Jun 2006 – Oct 2006 http://pewhispanic.org
Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide by Michael Gurstein (c2003) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/gurstein/index.html
Gaming
A goal of the Macarthur Foundation digital media and learning initiative is to better understand how young people evaluate information that they find on the internet In session on games and learning—report by Johathan Fanton http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/games_panel_crowd/.
Seriousgames.org is a forum for the uses of videogames outside the sphere of entertainment http://www.watercoolergames.org/ .
Wikipedia entry for Ludology, the young field of analyzing video games from a social science or humanities perspective. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludology
Gaming in Health Wiki http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Gaming_in_health_libraries
The State of the Console re: Nielsen Videogame Reach 4th quarter 2006 http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/nmr_static/docs/Nielsen _Report_State_Console_03507.pdf
Article by J Mandese, Mar 16, 2007 http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=57208
Games about Health (Games for Health site) links http://www.gamesforhealth.org/archives/000211.html
Video Games May Offer Health Benefits, Experts Suggest Press Release http://pdfserver.emediawire.com/pdfdownload/504218/pr.pdf
Cyberpsychology & Behavior articles re: online interaction, gambling, etc http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/cpb/9/6
Playing with fire: How do computer games affect the player (From the journal titled: GAME RESEARCH: The Art, Science and Business of computer games (33 p., Sept 2003) http://resources.eun.org/insafe/datorspel_Playing_with.pdf
Today's Homework: Make Good Games, Wired article by 
article by Chris Kohler 2/13/07 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/games/0,72707-0.html?tw=rss.culture
Elderly and technology
Older Americans, Broadband, and the Future of the Net by R. Adler, SeniorNet , 11 p. 2006
http://www.seniornet.org/research/SeniorNetNNPaper060606.pdf
Older Adults and the Internet by Kevin Kawamoto. Interface: The journal of education, community & values http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2003/02/kawamoto.php
The acceptability of assistive technology to older people. C McCredie & A Tinker. Aging & Soc V25#1 online Jan 2005, pp 91-110 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=ASO&volumeId=25&issueId=01##
online 10 Jan 2005 PDF http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FASO%2FASO25_01%2FS0144686X0400248Xa.pdf&code=f4ec6ebbc7674fccd990e75cf703ee45
Health
Organ procurement organizations Internet enrollment for organ donation: Abandoning informed consent 12/06 BioMed Central Medical Ethics+ http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6939-7-14.pdf
Online information literacy learning for nurses: exploration of an RCN learning area
C. Lynch and A. Perrett. http://www.informationliteracy.co.uk/upload/jil/vol1issue1_afp_lynch.pdf
Who talks? The social psychology of illness support groups. Davison, K.P, Pennebaker, J.W., & Dickerson, S.S. (2000). Am Psychologist, 55, 205-217.
An analysis of internet and real world support groups for 20 different diseases. http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/reprints/Davison.pdf
JMIR eHealth / Internet Research Wiki http://www.jmir.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page includes links to collaborative communities of practice: Ebesity (ECoP) for people who have interest in internet-based obesity prevention, intervention and tx collaborating over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, & build innovations, and PhD students eHealth Wiki
Medical communication and technology: a video-based process study of the use of decision aids in primary care consultations. E Kaner , B Heaven , T Rapley , M Murtagh , R Graham , R Thomson & C May BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007, 7:2 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/7/2
Retrieving e-Health Research: The Challenge of Accessing the Knowledge by R Davis, Mia Lustria, Linda Brown (19 p. paper presented at the 2006 ASIS&T mtg). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008032/01/Lustria_retrieving.pdf
e-Health and the Elderly: How Seniors Use the Internet for Health - Survey http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/e-Health-and-the-Elderly-How-Seniors-Use-the-Internet-for-Health-Information-Key-Findings-From-a-National-Survey-of-Older-Americans-Survey-Report.pdf More at http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia011205pkg.cfm
CEO Survival GuideTM to Electronic Health Record Systems (National Quality Forum, 2006) http://www.ncqhc.org/executiveinstitute/EHRbookfinal.pdf
Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Health Information Technology: An ATA Paper (13 p. May 2006) http://www.americantelemed.org/news/policy_issues/HIT_Paper.pdf
Putting the Public in e-Health Jay Bernhardt keynote from 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine (MedNet) http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/pdf/mednet2006_keynote.pdf
Diving Deeper Into Online Health Search: An examination of online health searchers’ exposure to user-generated media and the Websites they frequent http://www.envisionsolutionsnow.com/pdf/Studies/Online_Health_Search.pdf
1 in 3 Americans report that Internet has changed the way they manage their health care according to an lluminas study sponsored by Cisco. It also finds a disconnect between what online tools consumers want & & what doctors are offering http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/prod_022707b.html
Patients Turning to Internet for Health-Related Information March 19, 2007
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?Action=dspItem&itemID=131885 Refers to Philadelphia Inquirer article by Josh Goldstein:
Web-site manner: Millions of people rely on the Internet for health-related information. Are they getting the help they need? http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20070319_Web-site_manner.html
Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community by Morey, O. (2007). Information Research, 12(2), paper 297 at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-2/paper297.html
Telemedicine and Telehealth Links, E-health links, etc updated 3/1/07 http://tie.telemed.org/links/ehealth.asp
The Great Hunt for an EMR http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/providers/ businessvalue/housecalls/ImplementingEMRs.mspx
ScribeMedia’s Peter Cervieri & Microsoft’s Health Care Industry Dir, Bill Crounse, talk about healthcare information technology & general industry trends. According to Crounse, America is “the worst of the worst” among industrialized nations in healthcare IT, but some promising initiatives are “on the horizon” http://health.scribemedia.org/2007/02/16/paper-kills/
Unique Challenges and Opportunities of eHealth Research. DK Ahern, Health e-
Technologies, Jun 9, 2005 slides & audio http://www.hetinitiative.org/content/ Critical_Issues_for_Web.pdf
Designing a Consumer-Centered Personal Health Record at Carol Franc Buck Breast Cancer Ctr at UCSF Mar 2007 http://www.chcf.org/topics/chronicdisease /index.cfm?itemID=131727
Randomized controlled trial comparing four strategies for delivering e-curriculum to health care professionals [ISRCTN88148532]. Kemper KJ, Gardiner P et al BMC Med Educ. 2006; 6: online Jan 11, 2006 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1382227
A Website to Improve Asthma Care by Suggesting Patient Questions for Physicians: Qualitative Analysis of User Experiences by CW Hartmann, CN Sciamanna, et al J Med Internet Res 2007 (Feb 7); 9(1):e3 http://www.jmir.org/2007/1/e3/
The check-up: In-person, computerized, and telephone adaptations of motivational enhancement treatment to elicit voluntary participation by the contemplator Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. (re: reducing barriers to reach at-risk populations. http://www.substanceabusepolicy.com/content/2/1/2
E- Health WIKI http://www.jmir.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Evaluating Health Information on the Internet . Shawn Davis Interface on the Internet Jan-Feb 2007 http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/2007/01/davis.php
Researchers Call For Rapid Learning Through Electronic Health Records to Advance Medical Knowledge, Improve Care (RWJF Jan 26,2007 release) http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/newsreleasesdetail.jsp?id=10466
Successful Consumer-Clinician Health IT Interactions: Moderated Discussion
Windows Media Version http://www.phrconference.org/conf_resources/wmp_videos/dec8/successful_consumer.php
Audio: Listen to MP3
Latest Research: Moderated Discussion. Evidence that approaches can make a difference, barriers to effective implementation and adoption? Corey Angst, U MD. Eric Dishman, Intel , Steve RossU Colorado Health Sci Ctr Session audio: Listen to MP3 (47 MB) Read PDF (1.8 MB)
Connecting Decision Makers with the Suppliers of New Health Intervention Technologies (Health Care & Informatics Rev Online 1 Dec 06) L O’Dwyer et al http://hcro.enigma.co.nz/website/index.cfm?fuseaction=articledisplay&FeatureID=011206
Health: Opportunities and challenges in using ICT to improve public health http://www.infodev.org/en/Topic.6.html Includes a link to:
- Study/Toolkit/Handbook: Improving Health, Connecting People: The Role of ICT in theHealth Sector in Developing Countries http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.84.html
- A Quick Guide to ICT and Health (many links) at http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.185.html
- 12 Key Lessons: ICT for Health http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.87.html
Introduction: Ethics of Information Technology in Health Care by G Marckmann & KW Goodman An International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) theme issue (VV5 Sep 2006) includes ethical and social issues raised by various applications of information and communication technology in medicine and health care. http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/005/Marckmann-Goodman.pdf
Software must not manipulate the physicians: The IT Challenge to Patient Care by Dirk Thomas Hagemeister http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/005/Hagemeister.pdf
Testing the Viability of a Cultural Formulation Template (Matalafi Matrix) within an Electronic Health Record (HCC) K Mariner (Health Care & Informatics Rev Online 1 Dec 06) http://hcro.enigma.co.nz/website/index.cfm?fuseaction=articledisplay&FeatureID=021206
Literacy
ICT Literacy Assessment Preliminary Findings, 2006 is a new ETS report stating that students lack many basic skills in information literacy, which ETS defines as the ability to use technology to solve information problems. http://www.ets.org/Media/Products/ICT_Literacy/pdf/2006_Preliminary_Findings.pdf
ICT Literacy Assessment page http://www.ets.org/ictliteracy
Principles of Awareness-Raising for Information Literacy, R Sayers http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001476/147637e.pdf
What is important for learners is information: how to find it, how to focus it, and how to filter out nonsense. Refers to ICT Lit Assessment findings above. Inside Higher Ed, 15 Nov 2006 http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/15/infolit
New Literacies of the Internet Literacy expert Donald Leu addresses reading and writing strategies required for using the Internet and how these new literacies are changing the way we teach in grades 3-5. http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/teachreading35/session5/index.html
Mass Communication (and Interpersonal Comm. via technology)
Online News Credibility: An Examination of the Perceptions of Newspaper Journalists by W Cassidy. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/cassidy.html
RUOK? Blogging Communication Technologies During Crises by M Thelwall & D Stuart (analysis of mentions of communication technologies during three recent crises) http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/thelwall.html
The Influences of Deception and Computer-Mediation on Dyadic Negotiations by G Giordano, et al Individuals negotiating via instant messaging are more satisfied, than individuals negotiating face-to-face. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/giordano.html
Evaluative Feedback: Perspectives on Media Effects by S. Watts - differences between perceptions of feedback senders & receivers & between email & voicemail dyads. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/watts.html
The Children's Digital Media Center hosted a symposium featuring child development specialists studying the role of tv & interactive digital media on children, gaps in research in the children and media area. Special guests included Senators Sam Brownback and Joseph Lieberman. http://cdmc.georgetown.edu/about_news.cfm
Pedagogy
New Literacies of the Internet Literacy expert Donald Leu addresses reading and writing strategies required for using the Internet and how these new literacies are changing the way we teach in grades 3-5. http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/teachreading35/session5/index.html
Adding Societal Impact and Reflection to Information Technology Fluency Classes Golub, E. (Dec 2006) HCIL-2006- http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/trs/2006-28/2006-28.pdf
Beyond the Printed Page: Style Suggestions for Electronic Texts. J Online Learning and Teaching V2#4, Dec 2006 GL Bradshaw & RJ Crutcher http://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no4/bradshaw.htm
Communication Technology and the Evolution of Knowledge H Wilder & SP Ferris V9#2,Sum 2006 http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;rgn=main;view=text;idno=3336451.0009.201
How Low-Resolution Displays Have Changed the Way We Read, Write, and Interact J Follett, Aug 2006 Digital Web Magazine http://www.digital-web.com/articles/vision_quest/
Tools
A review of national information and communication technologies (ICT) and a proposed National Electronic Initiative Framework (NEIF) by Alan R. Peslak (originally published in May 2006) First Monday http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_5/peslak/index.html
Communication Rules editorial (HarrisInteractive Trends & Tudes V6#1 Fe 2007) by S Martin & L Crane examines communication tools such as the Internet, cell phones & text messaging, which young people seem to grasp rules for using http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/k12news/HI_TrendsTudes_2007_v06_i02.pdf
A review of national information and communication technologies (ICT) and a proposed National Electronic Initiative Framework (NEIF) by Alan R. Peslak (originally published in May 2006) First Monday http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_5/peslak/index.html
Youth
Communication Rules editorial (HarrisInteractive Trends & Tudes V6#1 Fe 2007) by S Martin & L Crane examines communication tools such as the Internet, cell phones & text messaging, which young people seem to grasp rules for using these tools. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/k12news/HI_TrendsTudes_2007_v06_i02.pdf
Magnifico: Science, literacy, and the internet? Understanding how young people evaluate information on the internet. http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/magnifico_science_literacy_and_the_internet/
Modern Technology has Tremendous Impact on the Way Teens Communicate (Harris Interactive Fe 20, 2007) http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/allnewsbydate.asp?NewsID=1181
Miscellaneous
Adding Societal Impact and Reflection to Information Technology Fluency Classes Golub, E. (Dec 2006) HCIL-2006- http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/trs/2006-28/2006-28.pdf
2007 Digital Future Report http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/current_report.asp?intGlobalId=19 Highlights only at: http://www.digitalcenter.org/pdf/2007-Digital-Future-Report-Press-Release-112906.pdf (The full report is $250 http://store.digitalcenter.org/purchasereport.html )
Exploring the social realities of online communities through the lens of a Human Information Behavior framework P Lin & D McDonald (2006). http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1521/01/LinMcD2.pdf D-List record at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1521/
Influencing Adaptation: Discourse, values and information and communication technologies. LP Nathan (2006) http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1457/01/LPNathan%5FSI%5FSymposia.pdf [Dlist record at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1457/
Why Online Services Fail http://gunston.doit.gmu.edu/healthscience/722/WhyOnlineServicesFail.asp
Internet World Usage Stats http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats2.htm
Communication Technologies -- A Decision Tree for Users http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/blogsBlogging/2006/11/24.html
Credibility of Content and the Future of Research, Learning and Publishing in the Digital Environment, Kate Wittenberg, J Elec Publishing, V10#1 Win2007
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;rgn=main;view=text;idno=3336451.0010.101
Reducing information pollution in the Internet age. Nelson DE. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online] 2007 Jan [date cited]. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/jan/06_0119.htm
e-Science, Theme issue of J of Computer Mediated Commun V 12#2 Jan 2007 includes the following:
- Exploring e-Science: An Introduction by NW Jankowski defines e-science, introduces contributions to the issue, and includes suggestions for extending the exploratory work.
-- Social Science and e-Science: Mapping Disciplinary Approaches R Schroeder & J Fry http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/schroeder.html
-- Intellectual Property in the Context of e-Science by D Burk. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/burk.html
- What Are Data? The Many Kinds of Data and Their Implications for Data Re-use S Carlson & B Anderson.. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/carlson.html
- From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories by N Bos, A Zimmerman, et al about a 7-category taxonomy of collaboratory types. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/bos.html
- Collaboration Structure, Communication Media, and Problems in Scientific Work Teams by JP Walsh & NG Maloney http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/walsh.html