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Developing Food and Nutrition Literacy with the Croatian Facebook Group “Homemade Food for Babies”

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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The aim of this research is to analyze possible food literacy benefits for the members of the Facebook group “Homemade Food for Babies”. Food literacy was operationalized as a combination of nutrition literacy and healthy cooking behavior. Methods used were: content analysis of documents from the Facebook group, an interview with the main administrator, and a survey, which was completed by 1081 members. The parents that are often using the group content (recipes, guidelines, advice) are enhancing their perceived food literacy. Active participation and membership duration are a lot less beneficial. Reading the group documents is crucial for nutrition literacy, and using the recipes is important for healthy cooking behavior. Additionally, motivation and using expert advice are predictors of both of those components of food literacy. The administrator is an expert and uses credible sources to give informed advice. The group is highly valued by majority of the members.

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  1. Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia

    Drahomira Cupar & Mate Juric

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Maija Leena Huotari

  6. Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  7. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  8. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Cupar, D., Juric, M. (2019). Developing Food and Nutrition Literacy with the Croatian Facebook Group “Homemade Food for Babies”. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy in Everyday Life. ECIL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_1

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