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Dissertation Information for Jerome B. Heath

NAME:
- Jerome B. Heath

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Hawaii (USA) (1997)

ADVISORS:
- Andrew Arno

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Larry N. Osborne
- John William Head
- Dan J. Wedemeyer
- Jeffrey Cole Ady

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Culture, mindscapes, and technology

Abstract: The theories that relate to the acceptance of technology tend to discuss the issues of media, leadership and networking. Although these processes are important in the acceptance of technology, it is proposed that epistemologies as measured by belief systems or mindscapes also play an important part in the acceptance of technology.

To determine these relationships I administered a survey with local students that compared their claimed use of technology with the results of the Harvey/Gore Belief System test. To compare with other factors I included the Inkeles and Smith Modernity Scale, which measures interest in media, acceptance of newness and new people, and concern about public issues. I also asked for opinions about a group of pictorial questions that were hoped would demonstrate a relationship to mindscapes or belief systems. Maruyama has been developing pictorial tests in order to represent mindscapes.

The survey also asked a series of demographic questions, especially ones that were considered to be related to the acceptance of technology. This part of the survey was extremely successful as most subjects answered all of the demographic questions.

Although the pictorial test had a distribution of answers, those answers were not strongly correlated with any of the other results of the survey; including the acceptance of technology, belief systems, modernity, or demographics. The acceptance of technology was more related to particular demographic issues than to either the Modernity of Inkeles and Smith or the Belief Systems of Harvey and Gore. In particular, different types of technology showed that different demographic issues were important. The most interesting demographic effects were those of gender, father's education and area of national/cultural origin.


MPACT Scores for Jerome B. Heath

A = 0
C = 0
A+C = 0
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2008-01-31 06:31:31

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ADVISEES:
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COMMITTEESHIPS:
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