Cultural Centrality and Information and Communication Technology among Canadian Youth
This paper examines the positions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) peoples and visible minorities as distances from the cultural “centre” of White European culture. It then assesses the relation of information and communication technology (ICT) to these locations among Canadian youth using t...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.r8arvr 2023-05-15T16:15:28+02:00 Cultural Centrality and Information and Communication Technology among Canadian Youth Thiessen, Victor Looker, Dianne E 2008-03-12 https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs891 https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/cjs/index.php/CJS/article/view/891 en eng Department of Sociology, University of Alberta doi:10.29173/cjs891 10670/1.r8arvr https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/cjs/index.php/CJS/article/view/891 undefined Canadian Journal of Sociology Canadian Journal of Sociology; Vol. 33 No. 2 (2008) 1710-1123 0318-6431 Computers Internet Racial Groups First-Nations Inequality edu scipo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2008 fttriple https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs891 2023-01-22T18:22:20Z This paper examines the positions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) peoples and visible minorities as distances from the cultural “centre” of White European culture. It then assesses the relation of information and communication technology (ICT) to these locations among Canadian youth using three data sets: the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, the 2000 Youth in Transition Survey (older cohort) and its 2002 follow–up, and a 2004/2005 survey collected by the authors. Findings indicate that the idea of cultural centrality is useful in locating FNIM groups and visible minorities vis-à-vis the cultural centre and each other and highlighting the stratified heterogeneity of these groups. Access to, use of, and development of ICT skills tend to mirror the relative positions of these groups in terms of cultural centrality. Further, youth who retain close ties with traditional culture are less unlikely to develop facility with ICT. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations inuit Unknown Canadian Journal of Sociology 33 2 |
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This paper examines the positions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) peoples and visible minorities as distances from the cultural “centre” of White European culture. It then assesses the relation of information and communication technology (ICT) to these locations among Canadian youth using three data sets: the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, the 2000 Youth in Transition Survey (older cohort) and its 2002 follow–up, and a 2004/2005 survey collected by the authors. Findings indicate that the idea of cultural centrality is useful in locating FNIM groups and visible minorities vis-à-vis the cultural centre and each other and highlighting the stratified heterogeneity of these groups. Access to, use of, and development of ICT skills tend to mirror the relative positions of these groups in terms of cultural centrality. Further, youth who retain close ties with traditional culture are less unlikely to develop facility with ICT. |
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Cultural Centrality and Information and Communication Technology among Canadian Youth |
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Cultural Centrality and Information and Communication Technology among Canadian Youth |
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Department of Sociology, University of Alberta |
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