Immigrant Families’ Health-Related Information Behaviour on Instant Messaging Platforms

Lev Poretski, Taamannae Taabassum, and Anthony Tang. (2021). Immigrant Families’ Health-Related Information Behaviour on Instant Messaging Platforms. In Opinions, Intentions, Freedom of Expression, ..., and Other Human Aspects of Misinformation Online - Workshop at CHI 2021.

Abstract

Each of the authors comes from an immigrant family, and we became fascinated with the challenge of how our multi-generational families managed conflicting information as it came in during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the flood of information has abated somewhat, there still remain some intergenerational differences and cross-cultural challenges when it comes to discussing and maintaining a family dialog about COVID-19 and handling it. We provide a brief outline of our personal positions on this matter, then outline a small pilot study where we conducted interviews with members of immigrant families to understand the matter. Our findings from that study suggest that individual’s motivations to discuss, share or verify information are complex, nuanced and most certainly influenced by the family’s culture.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2021-chi2021workshop-whatsapp.pdf )
URL (https://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/misinformation/)
Video (http://hcitang.org/papers/2021-chi2021workshop-whatsapp-presentation.pdf)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{poretski2021whatsappworkshop,
  author = {Poretski, Lev and Taabassum, Taamannae and Tang, Anthony},
  title = {Immigrant Families' Health-Related Information Behaviour on Instant Messaging Platforms},
  booktitle = {Opinions, Intentions, Freedom of Expression, ..., and Other Human Aspects of Misinformation Online - Workshop at CHI 2021},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2021-chi2021workshop-whatsapp.pdf },
  videourl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2021-chi2021workshop-whatsapp-presentation.pdf},
  year = {2021},
  type = {workshop},
  url = {https://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/misinformation/}
}