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Matei, Sorin Adam
Full text linkÎntr-unul dintre cele mai influente și discutate volume publicate de-a lungul anilor 2000, Boierii minții. Intelectualii români între grupurile de prestigiu și piața liberă a ideilor (2004), M. oferă o cercetare de tip sociologic, inspirată de scrierile lui Max Weber și, din tradiția locală, de Titu Maiorescu și Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea. Cartea urmărește rolul „grupurilor de prestigiu” în procesul, declanșat în secolul al XIX-lea, de modernizare a societății românești, societate caracterizată drept „paramodernă” (conceptul trimite la „un tip de organizare socială care, deși modernă în esență, amestecă structurile moderne cu cele tradiționale”)
Idolii forului: De ce o clasă de mijloc a spiritului este de preferat 'elitei' intelectualilor publici
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Ostinato:The exploration-automation cycle of user-centric, process-automated data-driven visual network analytics
No full textThis chapter introduces the Ostinato Model, an exploration-automation cycle for a user-centric, process-automated, data-driven visual network analytics. In terms of increasing the transparency of editorial processes on social media, this chapter contributes to the general theme of the book and particularly its secondvolume at hand in three levels. First, network analysis is a key approach in supporting explorative studies on the patterns and structures in between actors creating, curating, refining, and distributing socialmedia content and in estimating the authority and trust these actors have, therefore allowing for increasing the transparency of the editorial structure of Wikipedia co-authors, discussion and dissemination structures on Twitter and other social media. These structures can be modeled, represented, analyzed and visualized as networks to support the investigations and exploration. Second, the presented data-driven approach allows extending these investigations beyond the boundaries of individual social media and over long periods of time. Third, actors with different sets of skills from means to crawl online sources for data to domain knowledge allowing deep sensemaking can all fully engage into the different phases of the investigative process
What is affordance theory and how can it be used in communication research?
Full text linkAffordance theory proposes that the use of an object is intrinsically
determined by its physical shape. However, when translated to digital objects,
affordance theory loses explanatory power, as the same physical affordances,
for example, screens, can have many socially constructed meanings and can be
used in many ways. Furthermore, the affordance theory core idea that physical
affordances have intrinsic, pre-cognitive meaning cannot be sustained for the
highly symbolic nature of digital affordances, which gain meaning through
social learning and use. A possible way to solve this issue is to think about
on-screen affordances as symbols and affordance research as a semiotic and
linguistic enterprise
Disinformation as Ground-Shifting in Great-Power Competition
Full text linkDisinformation, distinct from misinformation, replaces accepted principles of objectivity and verifiability with novelty, framing, authority, self-reference, and conformity to create a new “truth paradigm.” This article introduces a novel definition and framework for understanding disinformation as a strategic tool in great-power competition. It includes a review of case studies, such as Russian disinformation campaigns during the Russia-Ukraine War and analyzes cognitive biases and social behaviors that facilitate the spread of disinformation. Policy and military practitioners will find actionable insights into countering disinformation, including its sociopsychological mechanisms and proposed targeted counterstrategies to protect the integrity of information flows in defense and security contexts
The Effect of Formal and Informal Social Capital on Diffusion of Wireless Encryption Practices: A longitudinal case study
No full textThe present study, conducted in a mid-western community via two types of surveys (phone and wireless monitoring), estimates and explains, within a diffusion of innovation and social capital framework, over-time changes in encryption practices associated with wireless networks. Formal social capital is a significant predictor at neighborhood level of changes in encryption practices, while informal social capital is not. In terms of magnitude, a 250% increase in the prevalence of wireless networks was accompanied during the study period (August 2003-May 2004) by an increase in adoption of encryption practices
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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