Events in Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-234
Author(s):  
Jan Fuhse
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Exchange Interaction ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Relational Sociology ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Dynamic Structures

Social networks are dynamic structures of expectations that arise and continuously change over the course of social events. The conceptualization of these events with various key notions of sociological theory is discussed: The concepts of behavior, action, and social practices attribute events to individuals, whereas exchange, interaction, communication, transactions, and switchings are located between actors. Action, social practices, interaction, transactions, and communication involve the processing of meaning. I argue that an ideal conceptualization of events in networks should focus on observable processes between actors, and that it has to incorporate meaning, as a key interest of relational sociology. This suggests the concept of communication as a basis for the theory of social networks.

scholarly journals Relational Sociology Paradigms

Stan Rzeczy ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 67-94
Author(s):  
Aleksander Manterys
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
Relational Sociology ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
The Common

This article is an analysis of three original variants of relational sociology. Jan A. Fuhse’s conception, which is part of the tradition of social network research, situates network analyses in the context of connections between culture and symbolic forms and styles. Fuhse’s idea involves a communicative base of relations, and he perceives institutions as spheres of communication that reduce uncertainty and activate roles in the process of communication. François Dépelteau’s approach, which is inspired by Dewey’s pragmatism, recognizes transaction fields as configurations of relations forming interdependency between people. The practices of actors entering transactions within social fields are important, and this makes it possible for an impression of continuity, order, and complexity to be created. Pierpaolo Donati’s relational realism is an attempt to describe the relational dimensions of human actions, while at the same time it is a consistent “relationization” of key social categories, and is also useful in understanding after-modernity. This article emphasizes the fruitfulness of new attempts to demarcate sociological genealogies and to read the classics of relational sociology. The author discusses the creation of new puzzles for sociological theory, the necessity of analysing the ontologies of social life, the phenomena of emergency and agency, and the use of relational theory in regard to categories of the common good and social capital. He encourages multidimensional and multilevel analyses of social reality.

scholarly journals Network Capital: an expression of social capital in the Network Society

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Acevedo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Physical Proximity ◽  
Collective Goals

Social capital is a measure of social cohesion, and an important indicator of human development. There are various definitions of social capital, but all make reference to the relationships and social practices that favor collaboration among members of a particular society in order to pursue collective goals. As communities are increasingly defined by interests, besides by physical proximity, they are becoming organized into social networks. It then becomes relevant to examine social capital produced withing networks, which could be termed network capital. Network capital could be understood as a measure of the value that communities structured as social networks and using network tools (in particular computer networks) generate for themselves, for others and for society as a whole. Thus, it would be a kind of social capital specific and exclusive to what we call the Information Society (or in Castell’s terms the Network Society).

scholarly journals Tracking and Analyzing Public Emotion Evolutions During COVID-19: A Case Study from the Event-Driven Perspective on Microblogs

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6888
Author(s):  
Qi Li ◽  
Cong Wei ◽  
Jianning Dang ◽  
Lei Cao ◽  
Li Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Change Points ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Event Driven

Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused substantial panic worldwide since its outbreak in December 2019. This study uses social networks to track the evolution of public emotion during COVID-19 in China and analyzes the root causes of these public emotions from an event-driven perspective. Methods: A dataset was constructed using microblogs (n = 125,672) labeled with COVID-19-related super topics (n = 680) from 40,891 users from 1 December 2019 to 17 February 2020. Based on the skeleton and key change points of COVID-19 extracted from microblogging contents, we tracked the public’s emotional evolution modes (accumulated emotions, emotion covariances, and emotion transitions) by time phase and further extracted the details of dominant social events. Results: Public emotions showed different evolution modes during different phases of COVID-19. Events about the development of COVID-19 remained hot, but generally declined, and public attention shifted to other aspects of the epidemic (e.g., encouragement, support, and treatment). Conclusions: These findings suggest that the public’s feedback on COVID-19 predated official accounts on the microblog platform. There were clear differences in the trending events that large users (users with many fans and readings) and common users paid attention to during each phase of COVID-19.

Committing to the Cause

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Coley
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Lgbt Students ◽  
Lgbt Issues ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Educational Groups ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Action Groups

This chapter provides an overview of the three kinds of LGBT organizations at Christian college and universities – direct action groups, educational groups, and solidarity groups – and argues that a correspondence between the ethos of these groups and the identities of participants produces activist commitment. LGBT direct action groups protest their schools’ discriminatory policies toward LGBT people. Perhaps not surprisingly, these groups tend to be led by politicized participants. LGBT educational groups tend to fulfil dual functions – first, providing forums for their participants to collectively discuss their beliefs about LGBT issues, and second, organizing lectures, movie showings, and other events to educate the wider student body about LGBT issues. Because they do not presuppose a commitment to the cause of LGBT rights, these groups tend to be led by religious participants. Finally, LGBT solidarity groups fulfil two kinds of purposes – first, providing a confidential support group to assist LGBT students in their coming out processes, and second, organizing social events that allow LGBT students to meet each other. Because solidarity groups are focused on personal issues facing LGBT people, individuals who identify as LGBT most often lead them. The chapter contributes to sociological theory on activist commitment.

scholarly journals Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102098882
Author(s):  
Jeroen Oomen ◽  
Jesse Hoffman ◽  
Maarten A. Hajer
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future 2 ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Images Of The Future ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of the future is re-emerging as an urgent topic on the academic agenda. In this article, we focus on the ‘politics of the future’: the social processes and practices that allow particular imagined futures to become socially performative. Acknowledging that the performativity of such imagined futures is well-understood, we argue that how particular visions come about and why they become performative is underexplained. Drawing on constructivist sociological theory, this article aims to fill (part of) this gap by exploring the question ‘how do imagined futures become socially performative’? In doing so, the article has three aims to (1) identify the leading social–theoretical work on the future; (2) conceptualize the relationship of the imagination of the future with social practices and the performance of reality; (3) provide a theoretical framework explaining how images of the future become performative, using the concepts ‘techniques of futuring’ and ‘dramaturgical regime’.

scholarly journals Screen Communications As a Form of Socialization and Individualization

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-149
Author(s):  
Svetlana Leonidovna Urazova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social

Common exposure to various kinds of mobile and stationary devices based on screen technologies produce substantiation for the term screen communications. The relevancy of its usage is specified, also the principles of functioning in context of updating social practices and multimedia informational space are substantiated in the article. The issue is due to the fact that the term screen communications has not yet been put into academic usage, unlike such terms as communication, mass communication and social communication. Nevertheless contemporary social practices for using the screen (cell phone, e-book, tablet, etc.) have turned into a daily routine and even demonstrate screen-phobia. The evolution of the technologies, new media (multimedia, multi-platforms), growth of information flows, form and content diversity of informational products, socialization effect and accumulation of empirical experience urge society to resort to the screen for receiving information (film-, video-, TV-production, Internet sites, social networks, computers, cell phones, tablets, e-books, electronic billboards, videoinformational systems, etc.). The article analyzes characteristics of well-known communications forms and types when superimposed to the term screen communications. The problem raised a need for thorough analysis of screen communications which different strata of society master; moreover, a great significance of studying peculiarities of screen culture in the digital era is emphasized. The article cites information about the emergence of Generation C, formed by social networks (a lecture on Nielsen Consumer 360 Conference). The Connected Collective Consumer has a distinguished identity and is ready for self-expression (ideas, cultural projects, etc.) within the group. As a conclusion it substantiates the nonlinearity of the social systems development, including social networks which are exposed to both the socialization effect and diversification and disintegration processes, which leads to a communication connections collapse.

scholarly journals Social Networks through the Prism of Cognition

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Radosław Michalski ◽  
Boleslaw K. Szymanski ◽  
Przemysław Kazienko ◽  
Christian Lebiere ◽  
Omar Lizardo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Related Event ◽  
Information Share ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Social Events

Human relations are driven by social events—people interact, exchange information, share knowledge and emotions, and gather news from mass media. These events leave traces in human memory, the strength of which depends on cognitive factors such as emotions or attention span. Each trace continuously weakens over time unless another related event activity strengthens it. Here, we introduce a novel cognition-driven social network (CogSNet) model that accounts for cognitive aspects of social perception. The model explicitly represents each social interaction as a trace in human memory with its corresponding dynamics. The strength of the trace is the only measure of the influence that the interactions had on a person. For validation, we apply our model to NetSense data on social interactions among university students. The results show that CogSNet significantly improves the quality of modeling of human interactions in social networks.

scholarly journals Heritage and the Post-Socialist City: Social and Cultural Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Falski ◽  
Linda Kovářová
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One ◽  
Symbolic Practices

Heritage and the Post-Socialist City: Social and Cultural PerspectivesThe paper is a presentation of the latest volume of Colloquia Humanistica. The leading subject of heritage in the post-socialist city is largely commented on with reference to three major questions: the interplay of city planning and identity issues; symbolic practices and semiotic shifts in urban space; social practices and the functioning of local social networks. Concluding remarks draw attention to the intersection of memory studies and politics, as well as the issue of (dis)continuity, which is crucial for the stability and security of societies on the one hand, and for efficient change on the other.Dědictví a postsocialistické město: sociologická a kulturní perspektivaPříspěvek je prezentací nejnovějšího čísla Colloquia Humanistica. Jeho hlavní téma dědictví v postsocialistických městech je z velké části komentováno s odkazem na tři hlavní otázky týkající se podoby: vztahu mezi městským plánováním a otázkami identity; symbolických praktik a sémiotických posunů v městském prostoru; a sociálních praktik a fungování místních sociálních sítí. Závěrečné poznámky poukazují na průnik studia paměti a politiky, stejně jako na otázku (dis)kontinuity, klíčové na jedné straně pro stabilitu a bezpečnost společnosti, a na straně druhé pro její efektivní změnu.Dziedzictwo i miasto postsocjalistyczne w perspektywie socjologicznej i kulturowejArtykuł jest prezentacją najnowszego numeru „Colloquia Humanistica”. Główny temat dziedzictwa w miastach postsocjalistycznych został przedstawiony w odniesieniu do trzech zasadniczych pól tematycznych: relacji między planowaniem miejskim a kwestiami tożsamościowymi, praktyk symbolicznych i zachowań semiotycznych w przestrzeni miejskiej oraz praktyk w kontekście tworzenia się lokalnych sieci społecznych. Wnioski wskazują na wpływ pamięci oraz polityki, jak też kwestii (nie) ciągłości, na stabilność i bezpieczeństwo wspólnot miejskich z jednej strony, jak też na ich skuteczne przemiany z drugiej.

Traffic Analysis Based on Short Texts from Social Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Magdalena Saldana-Perez ◽  
Marco Moreno-Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithm ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information

Social networks provide information about activities of humans and social events. Thus, with the help of social networks, we can extract the traffic events that occur in a city. In the context of an urban area, this kind of data allows to obtaining contextual real-time information shared among citizens that will be useful to address social, environmental and economic issues. In this paper, the authors describe a methodology to obtain information related to traffic events such as accidents or congestion, from Twitter messages and RSS services. A text mining process is applied on the messages to acquire the relevant data, then data are classified by using a machine learning algorithm. The events are geocoded and transformed into geometric points to be represented on a map. The final repository lets data to be available for further works related to the traffic events on the study area. As a case of study we consider Mexico City.

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