Digital communications among homeless people: Anomaly or necessity?
| العنوان: | Digital communications among homeless people: Anomaly or necessity? |
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| المؤلفون: | Timothy J. Crimmins, Josie Parker, Donald C. Reitzes, Erin Ruel |
| المصدر: | Journal of Urban Affairs. 39:145-159 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 030505 public health, Sociology and Political Science, biology, Social work, Downtown, business.industry, Frequency of use, Advertising, biology.organism_classification, GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS, Urban Studies, Outreach, 03 medical and health sciences, Atlanta, 0302 clinical medicine, Phone, Computer literacy, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY, The Internet, 030212 general & internal medicine, 0305 other medical science, business |
| الوصف: | This study investigates how homeless people in downtown Atlanta access and use cell phones, internet, and email. The findings include the following: (1) over 60% of homeless people in this study owned a cell phone, used the internet, or had email access; (2) number of times homelessness was related to cell phone ownership and frequency of use; (3) age group was related to computer knowledge, internet frequency, and having an email account; and (4) age group and homeless locations were related to some uses of cell phone, whereas age group, homeless locations, and length of time homeless were related to some uses of email. The findings suggest that providing the homeless with better access to cell phones may enable social service agencies to maintain closer ties to the homeless and improve outreach services. |
| تدمد: | 1467-9906 0735-2166 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::3f249259137208d9348e054dc66894ea https://doi.org/10.1111/juaf.12310 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........3f249259137208d9348e054dc66894ea |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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