Selection and Evaluation of Internet Information by Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Salmerón, Ladislao; Fajardo, Inmaculada; Gómez-Puerta, Marcos
Titel	Selection and Evaluation of Internet Information by Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Quelle	In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 34 (2019) 3, S.272-284 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-6257
DOI	10.1080/08856257.2018.1468634
Schlagwörter	Intellectual Disability; Adults; Internet; Information Literacy; Risk; Credibility; Web Sites; Information Seeking; Social Networks; Information Retrieval; Familiarity; Search Strategies; Inclusion; Evaluation Criteria; Cues; Developmental Delays; Foreign Countries; Adult Vocational Education; Vocational Training Centers; Spain (Valencia) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Intellect; Disability; Disabilities; Verstand; Behinderung; Informationskompetenz; Risiko; Glaubwürdigkeit; Web-Design; Informationserschließung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Suchstrategie; Inklusion; Stichwort; Entwicklungsverzögerung; Ausland; Vocational training center; Vocational training centre; Vocational training centres; Ausbildungseinrichtung; Berufsaufbauschule
Abstract	Internet offers people with intellectual disabilities (ID) unique opportunities to access information and to participate in society. But concerns have been raised about the potential risks they face when accessing the Internet (e.g. giving credit to false information, being exposed to manipulative content). As part of the current debate between positive risk-taking and overprotection, our study empirically tested the extent to which 43 adults with ID identified and selected topically relevant as well as trustworthy web pages while searching the Internet for several topics (e.g. Can social networks use your pictures for advertisement?). Participants also justified their search decisions. Results revealed that while searching familiar topics (i.e. social networks), participants selected more relevant and trustworthy pages than irrelevant and less trustworthy ones. Searches of less familiar topics (i.e. daily health), were carried out randomly, that is, without applying a specific criterion. Results point to the importance of topic familiarity on people's with ID performance on Internet searching tasks. This pattern of results suggests that, first, we should avoid overprotection when people with ID search for familiar topics and, second, they need more support when searching for information about less familiar topics. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01