Career Transitions and Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 264-277
Author(s):  
Roy David Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Career Transition ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Roller Coaster ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Change Event

Over the last decade, the athlete’s career transition literature has shifted from a deterministic (or linear) to a probabilistic (nonlinear) perspective. Athletes’ careers can be perceived as a roller coaster ride, shaped by transitions (i.e., normative, nonnormative, quasi-normative, dual career, cultural, crisis), a change-event, appraisals, decision-making, coping, and environmental influences. Athletes can enjoy a fruitful and meaningful career as long as they positively adapt to the various transitional periods and changes encountered, potentially creating multiple career pathways. Furthermore, research has expanded to additional sport performers, including coaches and referees. Finally, the lives of sport performers have tremendously changed in the past decade as a result of the globalization process, social media, and migration, requiring career researchers to modify existing conceptualizations. This chapter, therefore, provides a critical examination of the recent developments in the career transition and change literature, mainly focusing on critical questions to be asked and a prospective view of this field.

scholarly journals Information Sharing and Decision-Making: Attempts by Ghanaian Return Migrants to Enter through Libya

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-234
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Koomson-Yalley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between irregular migration, access to information and migration decisions. Using semi-structured interviews of thirty irregular return migrants who failed to reach their European destinations through Libya, I show that irregular return migrants from Ghana rely predominantly on interpersonal sources, including colleagues, neighbors, friends and relatives, for information on migration. Return migrants seek information from those who have relevant experience with that kind of migration. Existing research focuses on information from ‘formal’ sources such as traditional print media, social media, library or workshops. Here I argue that this focus on access to information conceals the activities and practices of irregular return migrants who perceive European destinations as ‘greener pastures’ and seek information to travel through dangerous routes. Most irregular return migrants interviewed in this study indicated they had access to information from ‘informal’ sources often shared as ‘jokes.’ Although irregular return migrants perceive the information they gather through their everyday activities as reliable, their interactions involve complex and unstructured social processes.

scholarly journals ‘You get a better life here’: social in/security and migration in a time of geopolitical transformations

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-320
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kay
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Migration

This paper is not about Brexit and yet it is. It presents findings from a project which explored the ways in which experiences of material and emotional in/security have shaped the decision-making and choices of people who came to live in Scotland from Central and Eastern Europe over the period 2004–2014. Their stories reveal much about the ways in which apparently monumental moments of geopolitical change resonate in longer-term lived experiences of transformation. The analysis foregrounds the often mutually constitutive influence of material and emotional in/securities in people's experiences of and decisions regarding migration and settlement. It demonstrates the linkages between these and wider questions of representation and entitlement which can feed into a (lacking) sense of deserving presence. It explores the complex relationship between the past, present and future which provide rationales and justifications for sometimes difficult decisions and experiences. Based on research largely undertaken before the referendum had even been announced the papers arguments and findings resonate closely with an emerging literature on Brexit and its consequences.

scholarly journals Social Work With Migrants and Refugees

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. i-x ◽  
Author(s):  
Marciana Popescu ◽  
Kathryn Libal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Migration

This special issue of Advances in Social Work focuses on current challenges and best practices with migrants and refugees, in an increasingly difficult global context. Over the past decade, forced migration and displacement reached record numbers, while complex geopolitical, economic, and environmental factors contributed to escalating current challenges. International human rights and migration laws provide a framework too narrow and too limited for these recent developments. Political pressure and a growing identity crisis add to the xenophobia and climate of fear, in which security has in some cases become the primary rationale underpinning rapidly changing migration policies. Social work as a profession – in education and practice – has an important (if largely unfulfilled) role to play in advancing the human rights of migrants and refugees. In this commentary, we outline the macro contexts that shape social work practice with migrants and refugees, highlighting the great potential for social work to do much more to advance the rights and interests of those fleeing conflict, economic or natural disasters, or other upheavals.

Benefits of Using Social Media Commerce Applications for Businesses

2017 ◽  
pp. 322-346
Author(s):  
Ardian Hyseni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Single Product ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Marketing ◽  
The Way

Social media commerce has changed the way of commerce globally; customers are affected more and more by social media, in decision making for buying a product or a service. While in the past people were affected by traditional marketing ways like newspapers, televisions and radios for buying a product, nowadays, through social media customers can find feedbacks and reviews on social media and can see thousands of photos of a single product with less a minute of searching in a social networking sites like. With the growth of social media's impact on businesses, social commerce has become a trending way of making commerce. In this paper it demonstrated a platform for businesses to make commerce through Facebook which is called Facebook commerce.

scholarly journals A First Glance at the Pakistan Age Distribution

1961 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Karol J. Krotki
Keyword(s):  
Age Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Impressions ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
Demographic Theory ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Initial Impressions

What follows is not only a summary of first impressions, but it is also limited to Pakistan as a whole, i.e., inter-regional differentials are not inves¬tigated. Furthermore, the following comments are limited to the youngest ages. In particular, no discussion is offered of the age distribution at the oldest ages. In any case the latter is partly a freak of the peculiar assumption on which it is drawn, namely, that nobody in Pakistan lives beyond the age of eighty. These are very severe limitations and in part what follows is more in the nature of advance notice of research to be undertaken than it is a report on substantive findings. Nevertheless, the initial impressions are of a startling enough nature to justify disclosure at this stage, but on the distinct understanding that they may on further inquiry prove illusory. The observations of this note are based on the simple fact that the population of any area at any time is a function of fertility, mortality and migration prevailing in the past. There are two ways in which these three influences show themselves: on the age distribution and the rate of growth. In a way, it may be more helpful to say that age distribution and growth are the other side of the same thing, namely, the combined product of fertility, mortality and migration. In fact, this is such a wide and all-em¬bracing statement that it may seem almost meaningless. However, relatively recent developments in demographic theory furnish powerful tools for analysis of age distribution and growth. Evidence of growth, such as it is, is not considered in this note. As already indicated, the discussion is limited to age distribution.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA AND POLITICS: CONTESTATION, MEDIATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY

2015 ◽  
Vol 144 (144) ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX AFOUXENIDIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Digital Politics

<p>In this special issue we consider various perspectives and ideas underlying the current ever-changing political and digital environments. There have been a substantial number of theories, coupled by empirical research over the past few years, on the nature of political behavior with respect to the increased use of the Internet. The main aim of this edition is to explore a few aspects of ‘digital politics’ and what they may mean for contemporary democratic culture. This paper synthesizes and reflects upon concepts presented in the following articles and discusses some recent developments and debates related to the dynamics of the online world.</p>

Benefits of Using Social Media Commerce Applications for Businesses

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-245
Author(s):  
Ardian Hyseni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Single Product ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Marketing ◽  
The Way

Social media commerce has changed the way of commerce globally; customers are affected more and more by social media, in decision making for buying a product or a service. While in the past people were affected by traditional marketing ways like newspapers, televisions and radios for buying a product, nowadays, through social media customers can find feedbacks and reviews on social media and can see thousands of photos of a single product with less a minute of searching in a social networking sites like. With the growth of social media's impact on businesses, social commerce has become a trending way of making commerce. In this paper it demonstrated a platform for businesses to make commerce through Facebook which is called Facebook commerce.

scholarly journals Information or Evidence? Abandoning Imaginary Worlds for Blockchains in Health Technology Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Paul Langley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Product Performance ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Recent Developments

Commentaries published in INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy over the past 2 years have made the case that, as a basis for formulary decision making, the construction of imaginary modeled worlds fails to meet the standards of normal science. As such, they should be rejected as a basis for decision-making. While their proponents argue that imaginary constructs are key sources of information for formulary decisions, the fact is that the claims made from those models are impossible to validate. Indeed, they were never intended to be validated. Claims for product performance should be presented in evidentiary terms. That is, they should be credible, evaluable and replicable. If the commitment to imaginary worlds in technology assessment is to be abandoned a key requirement is for platforms that allow claims to be assessed in real time and in a timeframe that is meaningful to decision makers. Recent developments in blockchain technology offer the prospects for platforms that meet criteria for claims assessment.   Article Type: Commentary

scholarly journals Social Media and Informal Organisation of Citizen Activism: Lessons From the Use of Facebook in the Sunflower Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511775138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panayiota Tsatsou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Empirical Insight

The literature embraces several arguments regarding the influence of online communication platforms and practices on communicative, semantic, affective and organisational elements of citizen activism. Although organisational matters are inherent in most discussions in this area, there is a need for empirical insight into under-explored cases of citizen activism that can contribute toward addressing questions about the informal organisation of citizen activism and the associated role of social media. This paper presents an interview study of the role of Facebook in the informal organisation of the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan. The study found that participants in the Sunflower Movement engaged more with Facebook’s information-spreading and information-sharing functions than with its networking affordances. They used these functions to enhance the public’s engagement with the movement and recruit new participants, as well as to initiate, support and coordinate offline action. In addition, in the context of the Sunflower Movement, Facebook appeared to support the largely self-organised and loosely structured character of the coordination of offline action. It also fostered movement participants’ actions and feelings of ‘altruism’ toward other participants as well as their desire to ‘awaken’ other groups and the public at large. Regarding leadership, the study shows that leadership structures still exist in technologically mediated citizen activism, but they are often challenged by activists, while decision-making is a lot more complex and multi-layered than in the past.

Impact of Online Social Media on Consumer Decision Making: A Study in Dehradun

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-381
Author(s):  
Dr. Aruna Kumar Mishra ◽  
◽  
Narendra Kumar Narendra Kumar ◽  
Abhishek Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Online Social Media
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