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The rise of the citizen author: Writing within social media
Get PDFThe concept of the citizen author is defined and explored within the publishing industry. In order to understand what positions the citizen author currently, and potentially could, hold it begins with a historical view of their rise, including concepts of their eighteenth century antecedents. But the focus of this research is on their growth alongside that of social media platforms. This allows for drawing out relationships between genre fiction, publishers, and the citizen author, which provides a more full understanding of the power dynamics involved when publishers, social media, and the citizen authors mix in the current industry climate
Recruitment Questionnaire 2024
No full textPseudonymized survey microdata from the 2024 Recruitment Questionnaire of The Social Study (TSS) — a probability-based panel survey of individuals aged 16+ residing in private households in Belgium. The data were collected during the panel's recruitment phase, which used a mixed-mode design (push-to-web followed by face-to-face) and a stratified two-stage clustered sampling strategy, with individuals randomly selected from the Belgian National Register.
The dataset includes information from respondents who:
Completed the recruitment questionnaire, and
Consented to join the panel, forming the initial pool of TSS panelists.
Key features of the dataset include:
Sociodemographic variables (age, gender, education, region, language, etc.),
Household composition and housing characteristics,
Consent information for future participation,
Sampling weights to correct for design and nonresponse biases.
It covers respondents from all three Belgian regions, excluding the German-speaking community for practical reasons. The file supports both cross-sectional analyses of recruitment-stage characteristics and preparation for longitudinal panel data collection
Social hygiene.
No full textVols. 5- include: Social hygiene bibliography, compiled by Janet F. Melvain.Published in: New York, 1918-1919; Menasha, Wis., 1920-1921.Title from cover.Mode of access: Internet.Official periodical of the American Social Hygiene Association
Saying Thanks and Meaning It: Expressing Gratitude for Social Gain
No full textPeople sometimes give thanks as a true expression of their feeling but also sometimes because they know gratitude expression helps to make a certain social impression. That is, some gratitude is expressed because of intrinsic motivations or extrinsic motivations. Such motivations affect the outcomes of behavior. The present work assessed gratitude, trait tendency to manage socially desirable expressions, and well-being across two studies (combined n = 398). Motivations to express gratitude were also measured and impression management goals were manipulated in study 2. Results show that gratitude expression is highest when people want to make a good impression and extrinsic motives to express gratitude can moderate the relationship between gratitude and well-being. Implications for the measurement of gratitude and theoretical understanding of gratitude’s social function are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Social work and the question of social development in Africa
No full textThe author initially considers the severe development crisis of the African continent which urgently needs the attention of policy makers, planners and frontline workers. A discussion is then presented on how the methodologies of social development and social work: converging as human focused development can assist in ameliorating this situation. The author notes that social workers are trained to deal at a systems level with social problems and that social workers are capable of playing multiple roles at both community and agency levels. As such the author calls for greater recognition of the social work profession in tackling major problems of development
Simulation in Social Work: Creativity of Students and Faculty during COVID-19
Get PDFSimulation learning plays an important role in social work education, allowing students to explore how theory and practice parameters can be integrated into actual situations they are likely to experience in the field. The arrival of COVID-19 and the sudden cessation of in-field practicum opportunities raised challenges for students to gain needed practice experience. Simulation offers an opportunity to enhance learning in place of some direct experience when that is not available. This paper reports on a simulation development practicum, where students, not able to be in an agency, sought out ways to achieve learning through the development and implementation of simulation learning. This was combined with a literature review. Results showed that student-generated simulation could be used to support direct practice learning. This project also illustrated that social work simulation can be used to help students safely explore areas of practice that they may not be exposed to in practicum through scenarios that cause them to examine how to work with clients where cross-cultural needs exist, and challenge ethical dilemmas in a ‘real-world’ situation while being required to face their biases.articl
Lost and Finding: Experiences of Newly Graduated Critical Social Workers
Get PDFThe first year of social work practice can be very stressful for new practitioners. Practice develops in response to the meaning we place on what we do and on our professional goals. Having a better
understanding of how new graduates navigate the transition from idealized work to real practice is important if the profession is going to improve the overall self-efficacy, happiness, and commitment of social workers. In this paper, I discuss some of the findings from research that utilized philosophical hermeneutics as an approach to understand how newly graduated social workers, educated in a critical tradition, experience their practice. Critical social workers described their practice as experiences of being both lost and finding. Specifically, it is an experience of trying to get into, around, or through the real world of paid work-based practice. This is the challenge of emancipatory work. The “real world” becomes a box where it is very difficult, if not
impossible, within which to move. Arguments are made for critical social work schools and organizations to develop peer-support groups, focused on critical reflection and reflexive practice, to assist current critical social work students and new graduates to recognize, support, and sustain emancipatory practice
Los Angeles County Social Survey, 1993 (LACSS)
No full textThe Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS) continues the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Studies (LAMAS) and the Southern California Social Surveys (SCSS). A set of core questions focuses on attitudes and views of living in Los Angeles, neighborhoods, public services, and political views. The sample of respondents is a random digit dial sample of all telephone households in Los Angele
s County and contains over samples of African American, and Asian American households. The N of respondents in the 1993 survey is as follows: White n=385; African American n=366; Latino n=172; Asian American n=43. Main topics in 1993 include ethnic relations, social dominance, inequality and poverty. Respondents were randomly selected to answer a series of questions from one of three ballots concerning immigration and affirmative action; social distance questions varied depending on the respondent's ethnicity. Interviewing used a computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) system. The questionnaire was deployed in English or Spanish depending on language spoken by respondent
Estudio Longitudinal Social de Chile 2019
No full textELSOC has been designed to evaluate how Chileans think, feel, and behave regarding a set of social issues related to conflict and social cohesion in Chile. Because of its nature, this study seeks to analyze, in a national representative sample, the stability or change in several social dimensions attending factors that can moderate or explain it through the years (2018
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