OBJECTIVE Family caregivers play a significant role in the diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of individuals with cancer. This position paper reviews and links the research on family caregiving and health information with the importance of cancer literacy. METHOD Review of literature obtained through searching in Academic Search Premier, EBSCO, Communication and Mass Media Complete, PsychArti...

background: poor literacy can impede one’s ability not only to seek out needed health information but also to process, understand and use it to make appropriate health care decisions. the objective of the study was to assess the health literacy among adult patients seeking oral health care at in a private dental hospital in bangalore, karnataka, india. materials and methods: a cross sectional q...

Media Technology (MT) is a new, multidisciplinary field that integrates the knowledge, expertise, resources, and creativity of diverse, established, fertile artistic disciplines (visual design, art, music, radio, television) with new technological disciplines (digital media, information systems, information technology, computer science, network engineering) through rapidly-evolving technologies...

Introduction: The information literacy status and the use ofinformation technology among students in the globalization age ofcourse plans are very momentous. This study aimed to evaluate theinformation literacy status and use of information technology amongmedical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2013.Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study with crosssectionalmethod...

As one of the most influential social media platforms, microblogging is becoming increasingly popular in the last decades. Each day a large amount of events appear and spread in microblogging. The spreading of events and corresponding comments on them can greatly influence the public opinion. It is practical important to discover new emerging events in microblogging and predict their future pop...

We assume that social media use contributes to employability and sociality and media literacy complements a basic set of skills. Especially the low skilled and low educated lack media literacy, which contributes to their precarious situation and increases a participation gap. A database search for peer reviewed articles covering effective elements of media literacy did not return any useful res...

Introduction. This study investigates how Europeans seek information related to healthy eating, what determines their information seeking and whether any problems are encountered in doing so. Method. A survey was administered through computer-assisted on-line web-interviewing. Respondents were grouped by age and sex (n=3003, age +16) in Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Poland, and the UK. Analysis. Des...

The technological changes that have occurred in communications and information distribution have given rise to new models in communication, literacy and pedagogy that affect both communication and education (Media Literacy), with the result that production is now based on collaboration and participation. We need new discursive paradigms to express ourselves in this area, and to organize and dis...