Mapping Paris: Social and Artistic Networks, 1855–1889

Leonardo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 446-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire L. Kovacs
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Mapping Paris: Social and Artistic Networks, 1855–1889 charts and analyzes 19th-century social networks in order to map the artistic collaborations taking place in Paris between the Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1889. In doing so, it allows scholars to view the data in novel ways and to foster considerations of aesthetic dialogue through crossed paths, acquaintances, friendships, conversations and collaborations in the social condenser of Paris. This article focuses on situating the project on its theoretical foundations, considers some of the research questions that can be investigated through such a methodological tool and contemplates the implications on the discipline of art history.

The Impact of Social Networks on Science Students' Academic Performance in Ondo State Senior Secondary Schools, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Jethro Oludare OLOJO
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Science Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ondo State ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Senior Secondary Schools ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this study was to examine the impact of social network usage on science students’ academic achievements in Ondo State’s senior secondary schools. The study was also to find the extent to which students under investigation used the social network platforms and the frequencies of their visits. In order to achieve this, a structured questionnaire was designed and administered to students from the three senatorial districts that made up the state. A multistage; which involved simple random and purposive sampling approaches was used to select the sample for the study. 150 copies of the questionnaire were distributed; out of which, 148 (98.78%) copies were returned. For the study, four research questions and two research hypotheses were developed. The hypotheses were assessed using the student's - t statistic at 0.05 significant level; using SPSS version 20 while the research questions formulated were evaluated using frequency counts and percentages. The study revealed that Ondo State senior secondary school science students can efficiently use the social network platforms for academic activities with male students being more proficient than their female counterparts. The study also revealed that the usage of social networks has assisted students to improve their academic performance; irrespective of their classes. Besides, the study showed that Facebook was the most popular of all the social network platforms. To this end, the researcher recommended that teachers, parents, and guidance should monitor the activities of their wards on the social network sites so that they can use the platforms to benefit their lots. Teachers should also use the advantage of students’ exposure to social networking to change their teaching methods from traditional one to online teaching.

scholarly journals Status in Social Networks as a Speech Genre

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
Svitlana Formanova ◽  
Liudmyla Gusak ◽  
Tetiana Vorobiova ◽  
Ruslana Savchuk ◽  
Olena Dorofieieva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Written Communication ◽  
Social Content ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Promising Direction ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Modern linguistics is characterized by the establishment and formation of a new promising direction, based on anthropocentric theory of speech genres (TSG). The popularity of this direction lies in the interest of the scientists in the phenomenon of virtual communication, which has a certain structure and differs in mechanisms of influence on the social content. The multidimensionality and richness of genre forms determine the need for a diverse approach to the study of speech genres in modern genology. The aim of the article is to study and analyze the theory of speech genres in modern linguistics. The author presents the basic theoretical foundations of the study of the theory of speech genres. Taking into account the achievements of modern studies, the concept of speech genres is analyzed, features and functions of the visual elements of the speech genre are described. It is proved that the modern speech genre and its variety the virtual speech genre are an informational and communicative environment in which there is a certain styling, sphere of communication, speech behavior. The speech genre and the virtual speech genre belong to the written communication and rely on the fullest use of lexical, grammatical, graphic, and media means of speech, which foresees certain adjustments, as well as it differs by the form of dialogue and monologue.

A Latter-Day Sodom and Babylon

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Floribert Patrick C. Endong
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Gay Movement ◽  
New Religion ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the manner in which Nigerian bloggers and web journalists interpreted, framed and represented Obama's gay rights diplomacy in Nigeria. The chapter specifically explores the extent to which these web journalists' interpretations of the American pro-gay movement generated new religion-inspired representations of the U.S. government and Americans on the social networks. The study is based on a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of over 162 online articles generated by Nigerian citizen journalists in reaction to Obama's gay rights advocacy in Nigeria and Africa. It answers the following research questions: how did Nigerian web/citizen journalists frame Obama's pro-gay move? What was their tone? How did they represent America and its people in their articles or posts? And how did religion and culture influence the latter's representations of America and Americans?

Lifespan Differences in the Social Networks of Prison Inmates

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary D. Bond ◽  
Laura A. Thompson ◽  
Daniel M. Malloy
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity Theory ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Older Inmates

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST) (Carstensen, 1992, 1993) accounts for lifespan changes in human social networks and for the motivations which underlie those changes. SST is applied in this research with 256 prison inmates and non-inmates, ages 18–84, from Mississippi, Kansas, and New Mexico. Two research questions sought to identify (a) whether inmate networks change in size, and (b) whether overall closeness within an inmate's network changes over the adult years. Results indicate that older inmates, much like older non-inmates, have few peripheral partners, are buffered from the wider population of prisoners, and interact within a small group of very close partners. Although older inmates are not completely isolated, they do maintain fewer network partners as age increases, like their non-incarcerated counterparts, and overall are as emotionally close to network members as non-inmates.

scholarly journals “Show the Clichés:” the Appearance of Happiness in Agnès Varda’s Le Bonheur

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Susan Felleman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Working Class ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Happy People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Industrial Settings ◽  
Dramatic Characters

Abstract Le Bonheur, perhaps Agnès Varda’s most beautiful film, is also her most perplexing. The film’s insistently idyllic surface qualities, overtly beautiful imagery, and psychologically impenetrable, improbably content characters mystify and confuse. Of late, feminist scholars have clarified the situation, noting Varda’s incorporation of advertising and pop cultural visual rhetoric to implicate the social forces framing the picture and those insistently “happy” people: more like advertising ciphers than dramatic characters. Varda herself referenced Impressionist painting as a source of the film’s aesthetics. The purposes of this vivid, chromatic intertextual and intermedial source, in relation to the rhetoric of commercial and popular culture, demand attention. Varda studied art history and connected the milieu of Le Bonheur, the Parisian exurbs, their petit-bourgeois and working-class populace, and bucolic leisure, artisanal and industrial settings, to the modernity of 19th-century Impressionism. Le Bonheur uses an Impressionist picturesque dialectically, in relation to a pop contemporaneity, to observe and critique an ideological genealogy of capitalism and its oppression of women.

scholarly journals What is neoclassical economics? The three axioms responsible for its theoretical oeuvre, practical irrelevance and, thus, discursive power

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Arnsperger ◽  
Yanis Varoufakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Neoclassical Economic ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Discursive Power ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This paper offers a precise definition of neoclassical economics based on three axioms which lie at the latter's foundations. This definition is all inclusive in that it applies as much to the neoclassical economic models of the late 19th century as it does to today's more flexible and 'inclusive' models. The paper argues that these axioms, simultaneously, (a) provide the foundation for neoclassicism?s discursive success within the social sciences and (b) are the deep cause of its theoretical failure. Moreover, (a) and (b) reinforce one another as neoclassicism's discursive power (which is largely due to the hidden nature of its three foundational axioms) makes it even less likely that it will conduct an open, pluralist debate on its theoretical foundations (i.e. the three axioms which underpin it).

A Latter-Day Sodom and Babylon

2022 ◽  
pp. 549-569
Author(s):  
Floribert Patrick C. Endong
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Gay Movement ◽  
New Religion ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the manner in which Nigerian bloggers and web journalists interpreted, framed and represented Obama's gay rights diplomacy in Nigeria. The chapter specifically explores the extent to which these web journalists' interpretations of the American pro-gay movement generated new religion-inspired representations of the U.S. government and Americans on the social networks. The study is based on a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of over 162 online articles generated by Nigerian citizen journalists in reaction to Obama's gay rights advocacy in Nigeria and Africa. It answers the following research questions: how did Nigerian web/citizen journalists frame Obama's pro-gay move? What was their tone? How did they represent America and its people in their articles or posts? And how did religion and culture influence the latter's representations of America and Americans?

scholarly journals When and why is “extraversion” associated with social popularity?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ville Juhani Ilmarinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Oral Fluency ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Relationship

Examinations of the relationship between individuals’ personal characteristics and the social positions that individuals receive in everyday peer networks have often found an association between extraversion and popularity. This thesis assesses the conditions (when) and mechanisms (why) of this association.Four research questions focus on when the link between extraversion and popularity is present. The study examines whether extraversion is already associated with popularity among seven- to eight-year-olds (Study I), if extraversion is associated with popularity in a less talkative and more stereotypically introverted culture as well (i.e. in Finland; Studies I and II), whether the association is more reflective of the popularity of extraverts or the unpopularity of introverts (Studies II and III), and if the size of the surrounding social ecology is an important precondition of this association (Study III). In addition, the study considers two why research questions. Studies II and III examine if dyadic combinations of extraversion could serve as popularity particles that would explain why extraverts are ultimately more popular in the group, whereas Study I evaluates the mediating role of oral fluency between extraversion and popularity among children.The association between extraversion and popularity is found to be highly generalizable, as it is present among young and adult Finns as well as in social networks of varying sizes. In addition, the association is linear and unilateral: introverts are unpopular as much as extraverts are popular, and dyadic combinations of extraversion are not significant in explaining this phenomenon. Finally, the higher oral fluency of extraverts partially explains their popularity in middle childhood.The discussion focuses on the causality of this association and engages with the ontological status of trait extraversion throughout the thesis. The research also highlights the role of popularity and social networks in accounting for the coalescence of extraversion.

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