How Materiality Enables and Constrains Framing Practices: Affordances of a Rheumatology E-Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Essén ◽  
Sara Winterstorm Värlander
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Collective Action Frames ◽  
Data Content ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Material Artifacts ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Over Time

Framing has been presented as a way for micro-level actors to change and diffuse innovations. However, most framing studies have given primacy to language, whereas the role of material artifacts has been largely ignored. The aim of this study is to conceptualize and illustrate how the materiality of technology enables and constrains framing practices. We use empirical data about the development and diffusion of an e-service in the Swedish rheumatology setting from 2000 to 2014. Our results show how three different material features of the technology (data content, user rights, and system integration) initially afforded two different framings of the technology: normalizing and radicalizing framings. The material features, however, lost their ability to afford radicalizing framings over time, along with changes in the collective-action frames governing the field studied.

18. Political Participation

2020 ◽  
pp. 318-335
Author(s):  
Herbert Kitschelt ◽  
Philipp Rehm
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Politically Active

This chapter examines four fundamental questions relating to political participation. First, it considers different modes of political participation such as social movements, interest groups, and political parties. Second, it analyses the determinants of political participation, focusing in particular on the paradox of collective action. Third, it explains political participation at the macro-level in order to identify which contextual conditions are conducive to participation and the role of economic affluence in political participation. Finally, the chapter discusses political participation at the micro-level. It shows that both formal associations and informal social networks, configured around family and friendship ties, supplement individual capacities to engage in political participation or compensate for weak capacities, so as to boost an individual’s probability to become politically active.

18. Political participation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Kitschelt ◽  
Philipp Rehm
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Politically Active

This chapter examines four fundamental questions relating to political participation. First, it considers different modes of political participation such as social movements, interest groups, and political parties. Second, it analyses the determinants of political participation, focusing in particular on the paradox of collective action. Third, it explains political participation at the macro-level in order to identify which contextual conditions are conducive to participation and the role of economic affluence in political participation. Finally, the chapter discusses political participation at the micro-level. It shows that both formal associations and informal social networks, configured around family and friendship ties, supplement individual capacities to engage in political participation or compensate for weak capacities, so as to boost an individual's probability to become politically active.

The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action

2020 ◽  
pp. 194855062094937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto González ◽  
Belén Alvarez ◽  
Jorge Manzi ◽  
Micaela Varela ◽  
Cristián Frigolett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Family Norms

The present research demonstrates intergenerational influences on collective action participation, whereby parents’ past and current participation in collective action (descriptive family norms) shape their children’s participation in conventional and radical collective action via injunctive family norms (perception that parents value such participation). Two unique data sets were used: dyads of activist parents and their adult children (Study 1, N = 100 dyads) and student activists who participated in a yearlong, three-wave longitudinal study (Study 2, Ns wave 1 = 1,221, Wave 2 = 960, and Wave 3 = 917). Parents’ past and current participation directly and indirectly predicted children’s protest participation in Study 1, while Study 2 showed a similar pattern longitudinally: Perceptions of parents’ participation (descriptive family norm) and approval (injunctive family norm) predicted change in collective action participation over time. Together, results highlight family environment as a critical setting for the intergenerational transmission of protest.

Diffusion of Innovation and Role of Opinion Leaders

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Dayane Gabriele Alves Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
And Diffusion

The purposes of this study were: (1) examine the literature about innovation diffusion; (2) conduct a literature review on the innovation-decision process; (3) identify factors affecting the success of an innovation; (4) to determine a new strategy for diffusion of innovation. A structured search of the internet was undertaken to identify and appraise direct relationship between opinion leaders and diffusion of innovation. Models for describing the pattern of the diffusion processes for innovations are used by researchers. The present study went beyond the global structure of network to understand the actual position of the actors within the innovation networks. To do this, a strategy was needed that went to understand from the macro to the micro level, and then returned to the macro level to explain the structure of the authorship in innovation networks.

Estimating Micro Relationships from Macro Data: A Comparative Study of two Approximations of the Brand Loyal Model under Temporal Aggregation

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Bass ◽  
Robert P. Leone
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Temporal Aggregation ◽  
Aggregate Form ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
Marketing Literature ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

The data interval bias issue in econometric studies of the relationship between advertising and sales first was discussed in JMR by Clarke in 1976. Within the last few years, several studies reported in the marketing literature have investigated the modeling of sales-advertising relationships with temporally aggregated data. Weiss, Weinberg, and Windal developed an aggregate form of the brand loyal model for data aggregated over time and compared their estimates of micro-level parameters with those derived from an alternative approximation developed by Bass and Leone. The authors use simulated data and empirical data to compare the performance of the two approximation approaches.

scholarly journals Hope and anger as mediators between collective action frames and participation in collective mobilization: The case of 15-M

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wlodarczyk ◽  
Nekane Basabe ◽  
Darío Páez ◽  
Larraitz Zumeta
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Collective Action Frames ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Active Mobilization

The study set out to integrate collective action models and emphasize the role of emotions. Whereas the importance of anger is indisputable, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of positive emotions, such as hope, in collective action research. Hence, the aim of the study was to explore the role of hope and anger as drivers of participation and involvement in collective mobilizations. A cross-sectional field study (N = 638) conducted right after the emergence of the 15-M socio-political protest movement in Spain assessed the emotions and beliefs of both demonstrators and those who took no part in the active mobilization. We hypothesized that anger and hope would sequentially mediate the relationship between collective action frames and participation in collective action. Furthermore, to test this premise, we ran two alternative sequential mediation models based on the social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) and the encapsulated model of social identity in collective action (EMSICA), but with emotions as mediators between collective action frames and intensity of participation. Both models fit the data well, suggesting the importance of considering multiple causal pathways, and showing that anger and hope sequentially mediate the relation between these frames and involvement in collective action. The results support the crucial role of hope in mobilizing individuals to take part in collective action.

scholarly journals Measuring adoption of industry 4.0 technologies via international trade data: insights from European countries

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Castellani ◽  
Fabio Lamperti ◽  
Katiuscia Lavoratori
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Empirical Perspective ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Country Specific

AbstractThe investigation of the adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies and its implications, both at the macro and micro level, has attracted growing interest in the recent literature. Most studies have looked at the production and diffusion of related innovations and knowledge, but what do we know about the adoption of these technologies over time and across countries? In this paper, we look at three I4.0 technologies and present a new empirical perspective able to overcome the limitations of existing attempts at measuring their adoption, generally based on small-scale and country-specific studies. Our study provides a methodology that allows measuring adoption across countries for a relatively long time period. In so doing, we build on the well-established idea in the international economics literature that trade of capital goods captures technology diffusion, and so adoption across countries. We provide preliminary and comprehensive evidence on the adoption of these I4.0 technologies in Europe and set the premise for monitoring its evolution and implications on a large scale and over time.

Testing the Social Identity Model of Collective Action Longitudinally and Across Structurally Disadvantaged and Advantaged Groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Elena Zubielevitch ◽  
Chris G. Sibley ◽  
Danny Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Causal Assumptions ◽  
Longitudinal Association ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Over Time

Although the social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) demonstrates that identity, efficacy, and injustice are key correlates of collective action, longitudinal tests of these causal assumptions are absent from the literature. Moreover, most collective action research focuses on disadvantaged groups’ responses to injustice, with few studies examining what motivates advantaged groups to protest. We address these oversights using nationally representative longitudinal panel data to investigate SIMCA among members of disadvantaged ( N = 2,574) and advantaged ( N = 13,367) groups. As hypothesized, identity predicted increases in injustice, efficacy, and collective action support over time. In turn, injustice (but not efficacy) mediated the longitudinal association between identity and collective action support. Notably, results were largely consistent across disadvantaged and advantaged groups. Thus, we provide the first demonstration that identity temporally precedes collective action across objectively disadvantaged and advantaged groups, but identify complexities regarding the role of efficacy in protest.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document