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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ftunivalbertaojs:oai:ejournals.library.ualberta.ca:article/891 2023-05-15T16:15:33+02:00 Cultural Centrality and Information and Communication Technology among Canadian Youth Thiessen, Victor Looker, Dianne E Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada; Nova Scotia; Nunavut 2000 - 2005 2008-03-12 application/pdf http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/891 eng eng Department of Sociology, University of Alberta http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/891/1404 Canadian Journal of Sociology; Vol 33, No 2 (2008) 1710-1123 0318–6431 Sociology;Cultural Studies; Information-Communication Technology Computers; Internet; Racial Groups; First-Nations; Inequality info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article survey; quantitative 2008 ftunivalbertaojs 2016-05-08T20:29:37Z 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 Nunavut University of Alberta: Journal Hosting Canada Nunavut |
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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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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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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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http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/891 |
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Canada; Nova Scotia; Nunavut 2000 - 2005 |
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Canada Nunavut |
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First Nations inuit Nunavut |
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First Nations inuit Nunavut |
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Canadian Journal of Sociology; Vol 33, No 2 (2008) 1710-1123 0318–6431 |
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