Hispanic/Latinos (H/L) are being studied for healthcare disparities research utilizing community based participatory research (CBPR). CBPR’s active participation of community members and researchers suggests improvement in community health. Yet there are no known studies that inductively investigated the lived experience of H/L community leaders and members with CBPR using interpretive phenomen...

In this paper we make a contribution to the theoretical and empirical discourses regarding Web-based communities and online social interaction. The significance of myth-making within a web-based community is the primary consideration for this paper. This phenomenon provides the critical framework for deconstructing and understanding the interaction and identification of participants within Web-...

The paper shows that systems thinking is needed in research efforts in Community Informatics. It analyses briefly Virtual Community Informatics, Community Informatics and the broader field of (Virtual) Community Informatics as suggested by Bieber and Gurstein. The links between Community Informatics and Community Operations Research and indirectly in that way with systems thinking, are explored...

OBJECTIVE To survey attendees at community meetings for an emergency research protocol and determine whether these meetings aid participants' understanding and decision to support the proposed emergency research. DESIGN Postmeeting questionnaire. SETTING Three community meetings for the PolyHeme study in San Antonio area. SUBJECTS One hundred fifty community meeting attendees. INTERVENT...

In the field of participatory locative media practices the research aims to construct an experimental ground on which to problematize the process of mapping contemporary Indigenous memories of an Australian urban landscape within the cultural, spatial, social and technological issues that arise from collecting, classifying, re-situating, enacting and reinterpreting on territory archives of loca...

BACKGROUND United States college students, particularly those attending community colleges, have higher smoking rates than the national average. Recruitment of such smokers into research studies has not been studied in depth, despite a moderate amount information on study recruitment success with smokers from traditional four-year colleges. Recruitment channels and success are evolving as techn...

Native Hawaiians, or Kānaka Maoli, the first people to arrive and settle on Hawaiian Islands, developed an ecologically sustainable food system that sustained health of up a million islands. Colonization disrupted this as well healthy lifestyle cultural practices Indigenous Kingdom. Today, Hawaiians face pervasive social inequities. To build research processes can meaningfully sustainably addre...