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Jošt Bartol, Dr. Vasja Vehovar, and Dr. Andraž Petrovčič in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Michael Bosnjak published an original research article "Privacy concerns and self-efficacy in e-commerce: Testing an extended APCO model in a prototypical EU country" in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.

In the article, the authors Vasja Vehovar, PhD and Gregor Čehovin, PhD, members of the Centre for Social Informatics, review evaluations of nonprobability online panels, illustrate typical problems encountered, and present guidelines for deciding whether to use them.

In their new scholarly paper, Iztok Šori, PhD (The Peace Institute) and Vasja Vehovar, PhD (Centre for Social Informatics) draw attention to the proliferation of hate speech that threatens the health of democracy and media systems in contemporary societies.

Assist. Prof. Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, Mojca Šetinc, M.A., and Assoc. Prof. Vesna Dolničar, PhD (Centre for Social Informatics) have jointly published a scientific article entitled Benefits of a Wearable Activity Tracker with Safety Features for Older Adults: An Intervention Study in the scientific journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Assist. Prof. Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, Assist. Prof. Marina Trkman, PhD, and Assoc. Prof. Vesna Dolničar, PhD (Centre for Social Informatics) have published a scientific article entitled Caregiving Situation as a Predictor of Subjective Caregiver Burden: Informal Caregivers of Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Vasja Vehovar, PhD, Mick P. Couper, PhD, and Gregor Čehovin, PhD have published a scientific paper in one of the most prestigious journals, Social Science Computer Review, on the format of questions in online surveys entitled "Alternative Layouts for Grid Questions in PC and Mobile Web Surveys: An Experimental Evaluation Using Response Quality Indicators and Survey Estimates".

Vasja Vehovar, PhD, a member of the Centre for Social Informatics, and Zdenek Smutný of the Prague University of Economics and Business published an article in the scientific Journal of Medical Internet Research. In the article, "On the Current Connection and Relation Between Health Informatics and Social Informatics", they distinguish the importance of social informatics and health informatics.

Dr. Katja Prevodnik, Dr. Marina Trkman, Jošt Bartol, and Dr. Andraž Petrovčič, researchers at the Centre for Social Informatics, have published an original research article titled “An Assessment of the Structural Validity and Measurement Invariance of the Web-Use Skills Scale for Aging Internet Users” in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a top-tier journal in the field of psychology and Internet studies.

Jošt Bartol, Dr. Katja Prevodnik, Dr. Vasja Vehovar, and Dr. Andraž Petrovčič, researchers at the Centre for Social Informatics, published an original research article titled “The roles of perceived privacy control, Internet privacy concerns and Internet skills in the direct and indirect Internet uses of older adults: Conceptual integration and empirical testing of a theoretical model” in New Media & Society, a top-tier journal in the field of communication and Internet studies.

Assist. Prof. Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, Kaja Smole Orehek, and assoc. prof. Vesna Dolničar, PhD (Centre for Social Informatics) have jointly published a scientific article entitled “Informal Caregivers’ Perceptions of Self-Efficacy and Subjective Well-Being when Using Telecare in the Home Environment: A Qualitative Study” in the journal Geriatrics. The article is available in open access.