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• Online activities of Alzheimer Cafes in the 6 months preceding and following the coronavirus outbreak

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  Csaba Kucsera

  Anna Holpert

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  58

  Alzheimer Cafés may play an important psychosocial supporting role in the life of people living with dementia and of their family caregivers by providing a community of understanding, in­clusion, solidarity and mutual support. They can promote policy-, professional- and social dis­courses, the recognition of dementia as a social reality, and overall awareness of this complex challenge. They can also foster transdisciplinary collaboration among professionals as well as between professionals and lay people affected by dementia based on mutual understanding, cat­alysing the formation and operation of acting communities and networks of interest.

  The active and purposeful presence and activities of Alzheimer Cafés on Internet platforms, in the increasingly prominent channels and fields of social discourse and community life in the 21st century, can be an important tool in the realization of these benefits.

  This two-part paper analyses the publicly accessible online footprint and behaviour of Alz­heimer Cafés from this perspective as measured by a list of 10 possible functions. It scrutinizes the realisation of possible benefits and advantages offered by Internet platforms between Sep­tember 2019 and August 2020, with a special focus on technology-based adaptive responses to the coronavirus-outbreak midway through that period.

  The first part of the paper (Kucsera – Holpert 2021) briefly overviewed the Alzheimer Café concept and its history in Hungary, presented the methodology of the study and the first half of the research results. This second part of the paper presents the rest of the results, and makes recommendations for making more effective use of the potential of online platforms to realise the goals.

• Online activities of Alzheimer Cafes in the 6 months preceding and following the coronavirus outbreak

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  Csaba Kucsera

  Anna Holpert

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  46

  Alzheimer Cafés may play an important psychosocial supporting role in the life of people li­ving with dementia and of their family caregivers by providing a community of understanding, inclusion, solidarity and mutual support. They can promote policy-, professional- and social dis­courses, the recognition of dementia as a social reality, and overall awareness of this complex challenge. They can also foster transdisciplinary collaboration among professionals as well as between professionals and lay people affected by dementia based on mutual understanding, ca­talysing the formation and operation of acting communities and networks of interest.

  The active and purposeful presence and activities of Alzheimer Cafés on Internet platforms, in the increasingly prominent channels and fields of social discourse and community life in the 21st century, can be an important tool in the realization of these benefits.

  This two-part paper analyses the publicly accessible online footprint and behaviour of Alzhe­imer Cafés from this perspective as measured by a list of 10 possible functions. It scrutinizes the realisation of possible benefits and advantages offered by Internet platforms between Septem­ber 2019 and August 2020, with a special focus on technology-based adaptive responses to the coronavirus-outbreak midway through that period.

  This first part of the paper, which briefly overviews the Alzheimer Café concept and its his­tory in Hungary, and then presents the methodology of the study and the first half of the re­search results. The second part of the paper will continue to present the results, and will make recommendations for making more effective use of the potential of online platforms to realise the goals.

• Youth NGOs at home and abroad

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  Anita Kiss

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  21

  NGOs are now considered by social researchers to be a full member of society, and are increasingly visible in public awareness, media and vocabulary, which shows their growing influence and importance.
  Their numbers are constantly growing, and their services and activities are expanding. However, in addition to the wide range of tasks and services, there are common features of NGOs that make them a completely separate sector. Their mission is to serve the public and the community, without profit-making being their primary objective (Bányai 1997).
  The non-profit sector includes those organisations in society which operate as private institutions but in fact serve community purposes (Simon 1998).

  Since the range of activities of NGOs is very broad and it is difficult to draw conclusions from the whole, the focus of this short study is on youth NGOs.

• New ways in exporting Society: The potential of donation.based digital data collection

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  Kmetty Zoltan

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  37

  More and more digital data is being generated every day, and more and more social science
  analyses are using Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook data. Many international and national studies
  have already explored the social science opportunities and dilemmas raised by the phenomenon
  of ‚big data’ - but the issue of ‚access to data’ has only been touched upon tangentially. And
  access to data is becoming increasingly difficult. What can we do if market players close the
  access to their data, and, if we find data available, the Research Ethics Board tells us to stop? The
  answer is simple: go to the users and ask them for the data. This approach is what the literature
  calls data donation. This paper will describe the data donation approach in detail, focusing on
  how researchers can access data through users on the current major Western platforms. The
  practical feasibility of data donation access will be illustrated based on a domestic pilot study.