Jeremiah Spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremiah Spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremiah |
| FAMILY NAME | Spence |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radio, Film & TV Design and Research Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America: Transformation within a digital divide
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
Changing Class Formations and Changing Television Viewing: The New Middle Class, Television and Pay Television in Brazil and Mexico, 2003-2013
Cette recherche analyse la rapidité avec laquelle les structures de classe ont participé au changement des pratiques de consommation de la télévision en Amérique Latine lors de cette dernière décennie. L’abonnement au câble ou télévision payante s’est fortement développé au Brésil et au Mexique ces 6 à 7 dernières années et les effets de la croissance de la classe moyenne lors des 10 à 15 dernières années se révèlent. La hausse des abonnements au…
Gendered Space: The Digital Divide between Male and Female Users in Internet Public Access Sites
Community technology centers and libraries have been crucial components of public policy initiatives to reduce the digital divide. Using theories of structuration and the social construction of technology, this paper examines the gender dynamics of the digital divide at public access points in Austin, TX over 10 years. Using extensive participant observations, we found male users outnumber female users in public access Internet usage, even accoun…
Brokering new technologies: The role of children in their parents’ usage of the internet
This study investigated to what extent sons and daughters influence their parents’ adoption of digital media, particularly the internet, compared to other influence sources. It also explored structural factors that play a role in this bottom-up process, such as socio-economic differences and gender. Finally, it examined the relationship between this bottom-up technology transmission process and parents’ levels of internet self-efficacy and online…
Chapter 9. Communities, Cultural Capital, and Digital Inclusion: Ten Years of Tracking Techno-Dispositions and Techno-Capital
Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin
Generational Shifts in Language Use Among US Latinos: Mobility, Education and Occupation
The role of language and linguistic assimilation among Latinos has a direct impact on both education and occupation in terms of social mobility. The relationship can be examined with a generational context as language usage changes from first generation immigrants to third generation immigrants. The specific question being addressed herein is whether language or ethnicity had more impact on Latinos’ mobility in terms of educational achievement an…
Demographics of Virtual Worlds
Virtual worlds, as both a concept and an industry, has changed radically over the past 10 years, from a toy for the technological elite, to an over-hyped marketing phenomenon, to a needed reexamination of the uses and utility of virtual world technologies and experiences, as provided in this paper. Within academia there are a number of issues that require further examination. The academic community appears to be divided into four camps: 1. those …
Brokering new technologies: The role of children in their parents’ usage of the internet
This study investigated to what extent sons and daughters influence their parents’ adoption of digital media, particularly the internet, compared to other influence sources. It also explored structural factors that play a role in this bottom-up process, such as socio-economic differences and gender. Finally, it examined the relationship between this bottom-up technology transmission process and parents’ levels of internet self-efficacy and online…
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America: Transformation within a digital divide
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
Gendered Space: The Digital Divide between Male and Female Users in Internet Public Access Sites
Community technology centers and libraries have been crucial components of public policy initiatives to reduce the digital divide. Using theories of structuration and the social construction of technology, this paper examines the gender dynamics of the digital divide at public access points in Austin, TX over 10 years. Using extensive participant observations, we found male users outnumber female users in public access Internet usage, even accoun…
Demographics of Virtual Worlds
Virtual worlds, as both a concept and an industry, has changed radically over the past 10 years, from a toy for the technological elite, to an over-hyped marketing phenomenon, to a needed reexamination of the uses and utility of virtual world technologies and experiences, as provided in this paper. Within academia there are a number of issues that require further examination. The academic community appears to be divided into four camps: 1. those …
Generational Shifts in Language Use Among US Latinos: Mobility, Education and Occupation
The role of language and linguistic assimilation among Latinos has a direct impact on both education and occupation in terms of social mobility. The relationship can be examined with a generational context as language usage changes from first generation immigrants to third generation immigrants. The specific question being addressed herein is whether language or ethnicity had more impact on Latinos’ mobility in terms of educational achievement an…
Chapter 9. Communities, Cultural Capital, and Digital Inclusion: Ten Years of Tracking Techno-Dispositions and Techno-Capital
Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin
Brokering new technologies: The role of children in their parents’ usage of the internet
This study investigated to what extent sons and daughters influence their parents’ adoption of digital media, particularly the internet, compared to other influence sources. It also explored structural factors that play a role in this bottom-up process, such as socio-economic differences and gender. Finally, it examined the relationship between this bottom-up technology transmission process and parents’ levels of internet self-efficacy and online…
Gendered Space: The Digital Divide between Male and Female Users in Internet Public Access Sites
Community technology centers and libraries have been crucial components of public policy initiatives to reduce the digital divide. Using theories of structuration and the social construction of technology, this paper examines the gender dynamics of the digital divide at public access points in Austin, TX over 10 years. Using extensive participant observations, we found male users outnumber female users in public access Internet usage, even accoun…
Changing Class Formations and Changing Television Viewing: The New Middle Class, Television and Pay Television in Brazil and Mexico, 2003-2013
Cette recherche analyse la rapidité avec laquelle les structures de classe ont participé au changement des pratiques de consommation de la télévision en Amérique Latine lors de cette dernière décennie. L’abonnement au câble ou télévision payante s’est fortement développé au Brésil et au Mexique ces 6 à 7 dernières années et les effets de la croissance de la classe moyenne lors des 10 à 15 dernières années se révèlent. La hausse des abonnements au…
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America: Transformation within a digital divide
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)