Immigrant families' health-related information behavior on instant messaging platforms: Health-related information exchange in immigrant family groups on instant messaging platforms
For immigrant families, instant messaging family groups are a common platform forsharing and discussing health-related information. Immigrants often maintain contact with their family abroad and trust information in shared IM family groups more than the information from local authorities and sources...
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sg-smu-ink.sis_research-89652023-08-15T06:29:14Z Immigrant families' health-related information behavior on instant messaging platforms: Health-related information exchange in immigrant family groups on instant messaging platforms PORETSKI, Lev TAABASSUM, Taamannae TANG, Anthony For immigrant families, instant messaging family groups are a common platform forsharing and discussing health-related information. Immigrants often maintain contact with their family abroad and trust information in shared IM family groups more than the information from local authorities and sources. In this study, we aimed to understand health-related information behaviors of immigrant families in their IM family groups. Based on the interviews with 6 participants from immigrant families to Canada, we found that immigrant families’ discourse on IM platforms is motivated by love and care for other family members. The families used local and international sources of information, judged information credibility by its alignment with their pre-existing knowledge, and mostly did not verify information further. The information shared by diferent users from diferent sources often contradicted one another. Yet, family members did not discuss the conficting information due to their desire to avoid tensions. 2021-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7962 info:doi/10.1145/3411763.3451751 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8965/viewcontent/3411763.3451751.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Health-related information exchange immigrant families Information behaviors Instant messaging platforms Health Information Technology Software Engineering |
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For immigrant families, instant messaging family groups are a common platform forsharing and discussing health-related information. Immigrants often maintain contact with their family abroad and trust information in shared IM family groups more than the information from local authorities and sources. In this study, we aimed to understand health-related information behaviors of immigrant families in their IM family groups. Based on the interviews with 6 participants from immigrant families to Canada, we found that immigrant families’ discourse on IM platforms is motivated by love and care for other family members. The families used local and international sources of information, judged information credibility by its alignment with their pre-existing knowledge, and mostly did not verify information further. The information shared by diferent users from diferent sources often contradicted one another. Yet, family members did not discuss the conficting information due to their desire to avoid tensions. |
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Immigrant families' health-related information behavior on instant messaging platforms: Health-related information exchange in immigrant family groups on instant messaging platforms |
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Immigrant families' health-related information behavior on instant messaging platforms: Health-related information exchange in immigrant family groups on instant messaging platforms |
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