scholarly journals COVID-19 in everyday life: Contextualizing the pandemic

Sociologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-548
Author(s):  
Dusan Ristic ◽  
Ana Pajvancic-Cizelj ◽  
Jovana Cikic
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Main Criterion ◽  
General Hypothesis ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Selection Of

This paper provides an overview and findings of the research on the social aspects of COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. We aimed to investigate the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on everyday life. The general hypothesis was that it contributed to changes in common rituals and routines, especially in the areas we focused on: family and housework, trust, the Internet use, and food practices. The study involved an online survey on the sample of 685 respondents, adult citizens of the Republic of Serbia. The main criterion for the selection of respondents was their legal age. The research was conducted during April 2020. We present and discuss the findings, give preliminary conclusions, and contextualize them within the current studies on the COVID-19 outbreak. The general research hypothesis has only been partially confirmed. Our findings suggest that the pandemic outbreak has disrupted people?s habitual established practices and strategies for managing daily life in the sense of either intensification or the absence of certain routines.

scholarly journals Animals in Human Situations in Ancient Egyptian Ostraca and Papyri

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Azza Ezzat
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Human Gestures ◽  
Freedom Of Thought ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Selection Of

It has been said that the ancient Egyptians were raised to tolerate all kinds of toil and hardship; they nevertheless also liked to amuse themselves with comic relief in their everyday life. For example, ancient Egyptian drawing can be quite accurate and at times even spirited. What scholars have described as caricatures are as informative and artistic as supposed serious works of art. Ancient Egyptians have left countless images representing religious, political, economic, and/or social aspects of their life. Scenes in Egyptian tombs could be imitated on ostraca (potsherds) that portray animals as characters performing what would normally be human roles, behaviors, or occupations. These scenes reveal the artists’ sense of comedy and humor and demonstrate their freedom of thought and expression to reproduce such lighthearted imitations of religious or funeral scenes. This paper will focus on a selection of drawings on ostraca as well as three papyri that show animals—often dressed in human garb and posing with human gestures—performing parodies of human pursuits (such as scribes, servants, musicians, dancers, leaders, and herdsmen).

The Support of E-Collaboration Technologies for a Blood Bank

2009 ◽  
pp. 701-705
Author(s):  
P. Sasi Kumar ◽  
P. Senthil ◽  
G. Kannan ◽  
A. Noorul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Blood Banks ◽  
Electronic Technologies ◽  
Collaboration Technologies

E-collaboration technologies are broadly defined as electronic technologies that enable collaboration among individuals engaged in a common task (Kock, Davison, Ocker, & Wazlawick, 2001; Kock & Davison, 2003; Kock 2004, 2005). The reasons to enter inside the Internet are huge market value and effective data transactions (Perkins, 2000). The developments of electronic collaborations turn out the hard task into a soft one. This technology development allows the whole sectors to leverage the powers of the Internet and communication network to coordinate their efforts and the e-business models have provided the workable infrastructure for group communication and information processing (Jian Cai, 2004). Many published studies have also shown that, besides technologies the social aspects are essential for the success of collaboration (Briggs, 2003; Easley, 2003). The social aspects that lie behind this article are the speedy and effective services provided by the collaboration technologies for the patients. This article mainly speaks on how the deficiency of the blood can be solved by the blood banks. For this purpose a standard model has been created, in which the blood donors can be connected electronically with patients under the network assistance provided by the blood banks and the hospitals.

The Support of E-Collaboration Technologies for a Blood Bank

2011 ◽  
pp. 584-588
Author(s):  
P. Sasi Kumar ◽  
P. Senthil ◽  
G. Kannan ◽  
A. Noorul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Blood Banks ◽  
Electronic Technologies ◽  
Collaboration Technologies

E-collaboration technologies are broadly defined as electronic technologies that enable collaboration among individuals engaged in a common task (Kock, Davison, Ocker, & Wazlawick, 2001; Kock & Davison, 2003; Kock 2004, 2005). The reasons to enter inside the Internet are huge market value and effective data transactions (Perkins, 2000). The developments of electronic collaborations turn out the hard task into a soft one. This technology development allows the whole sectors to leverage the powers of the Internet and communication network to coordinate their efforts and the e-business models have provided the workable infrastructure for group communication and information processing (Jian Cai, 2004). Many published studies have also shown that, besides technologies the social aspects are essential for the success of collaboration (Briggs, 2003; Easley, 2003). The social aspects that lie behind this article are the speedy and effective services provided by the collaboration technologies for the patients. This article mainly speaks on how the deficiency of the blood can be solved by the blood banks. For this purpose a standard model has been created, in which the blood donors can be connected electronically with patients under the network assistance provided by the blood banks and the hospitals.

scholarly journals The relevance internet users assign to algorithmic-selection applications in everyday life

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Reiss ◽  
Noemi Festic ◽  
Michael Latzer ◽  
Tanja Rüedy
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

The rapidly growing academic and public attention to algorithmic-selection applications such as search engines and social media is indicative of their alleged great social relevance and impact on daily life in digital societies. To substantiate these claims, this paper investigates the hitherto little explored subjective relevance that Internet users assign to algorithmic-selection applications in everyday life. A representative online survey of Internet users comparatively reveals the relevance that users ascribe to algorithmic-selection applications and to their online and offline alternatives in five selected life domains: political and social orientation, entertainment, commercial transactions, socializing and health. The results show that people assign a relatively low relevance to algorithmic-selection applications compared to offline alternatives across the five life domains. The findings vary greatly by age and education. Altogether, such outcomes complement and qualify assessments of the social impact of algorithms that are primarily and often solely based on usage data and theoretical considerations.

scholarly journals The Social and Economic Aspects of Integrating the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Tatiana N. Litvinova ◽  
Olga V. Vershinina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Capita Income ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Per Capita Income ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

The paper examines the social and economic aspects of integrating the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation. This study is making a new contribution to sociology, as it brings together social and economic statistics and studies of the population’s perception of the impact that the new region’s integration has had on Russian society (conducted as an online survey). We analyze the population’s quality of life indices: average per capita income, expense structure, and minimum wage. The study allows us to conclude that the region is falling far behind the national average per capita income, as well as the relevant figures in most other regions of the Southern Federal District. In order to provide a counterpoint to these statistics regarding Russians’ opinion on the consequences of the Republic of Crimea joining the country, we conducted a sociological online survey (n=1012) among both Crimean inhabitants and people living elsewhere in Russia. The survey shows that the evaluation of the peninsula’s integration into Russia is mostly positive (72%) and neutral (18%), and that a lot of Russians, even though they may never have even visited Crimea, show great concern regarding the region’s social and economic issues, such as the condition of its infrastructure, local tourism, banking and loan restrictions, etc.

scholarly journals Influence of internet content on tourists decision to visit a cultural tourism destination

Bizinfo Blace ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Sandra Dramićanin ◽  
Branislav Sančanin
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Information Efficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Cultural Sector

Culture is an important element of a destination tourist product, and tourism is an apparatus for meeting the various cultural needs of tourists. The relationship between culture and tourism contributes to the support of the cultural sector, innovation, creativity, the image of the destination and the social connection between tourists and the local population. Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine the functioning of tourism without the Internet. Presenting the cultural offer of the destination via the Internet is a great challenge and requires exceptional commitment. The subject of research of this paper is the influence of Internet content on the decision of the tourists about the destination of cultural tourism they will choose. The aim of the research is to influence the internet content on tourists related to the cultural tourism of the destination and the possibility of attracting tourists to visit the destination based on the reviewed Internet content. The research involved 165 respondents who visited one of the cultural tourism destinations from the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The results of the research show that a higher level of quality of Internet content has a positive effect on tourists choosing a certain cultural tourism destination for travel and that Internet content in terms of information efficiency, interactivity and practicality has a significant positive impact on tourists' intentions to visit cultural tourism destination.

What is Rhetoric?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Interpersonal Distance ◽  
Interpersonal Context ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unified View ◽  
The Way

What Is Rhetoric? offers a new synthesis of the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, questions are often debated or simply discussed. Rhetoric is the way we answer questions in an interpersonal context, in which we want to have an effect on our interlocutors. These interlocutors can be convinced or charmed, persuaded or influenced, and the language used can range from reasoning to the use of narratives, whether literary or not. This book purports to be a breakthrough in the field by offering a systematic and unified view of rhetoric. It combines the social aspects of negotiation and interpersonal distance with the theory of emotions. All principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated in what is here called the “problematological” conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.

scholarly journals Historicizing media, globalizing media research: infrastructures, publics, and everyday life

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractVisions of media spanning the globe and connecting cultures have been around at least since the birth of telegraphy, yet they have always fallen short of realities. Nevertheless, with the internet, a global infrastructure has emerged, which, together with mobile and smartphones, has rapidly changed the media landscape. This far-reaching digital connectedness makes it increasingly clear that the main implications of media lie in the extent to which they reach into everyday life. This article puts this reach into historical context, arguing that, in the pre-modern period, geographically extensive media networks only extended to a small elite. With the modern print revolution, media reach became both more extensive and more intensive. Yet it was only in the late nineteenth century that media infrastructures penetrated more widely into everyday life. Apart from a comparative historical perspective, several social science disciplines can be brought to bear in order to understand the ever more globalizing reach of media infrastructures into everyday life, including its limits. To date, the vast bulk of media research is still concentrated on North America and Europe. Recently, however, media research has begun to track broader theoretical debates in the social sciences, and imported debates about globalization from anthropology, sociology, political science, and international relations. These globalizing processes of the media research agenda have been shaped by both political developments and changes in media, including the Cold War, decolonization, the development of the internet and other new media technologies, and the rise of populist leaders.

scholarly journals Emotions, Everyday Life, and the Social Web: Age, Gender, and Social Web Engagement Effects on Online Emotional Expression

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roser Beneito-Montagut
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Web ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

Emotional expression is key to the maintenance and development of interpersonal relationships (IR) online. This study develops and applies a novel analytical framework for the study of emotional expression on the social web in everyday life. The analytical framework proposed is based on previous ethnographic work and the self-reported measurement of the visual cues, action cues, and verbal cues that people use to express emotions on the social web. It is empirically tested, using an online survey of Spanish frequent Internet users (n = 301). The analysis focuses particularly on how age, gender, and social web engagement relate to emotional expression during online social interactions. We find that both personal characteristics (age and gender) and levels of social web usage affect emotional communication online. The effect size is particularly strong for gender. This article illustrates and reflects upon the potential of the proposed analytical framework for unveiling norms and strategies in online interaction rituals.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN SYARIAT ISLAM DALAM BINGKAI KEBERAGAMAN NUSANTARA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iqbal Maulana Yuni RosLaili
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Deputy Prime Minister ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

The implementation of the Islamic Law in Aceh received recognition from the Government of Indonesia since 1959 based on the Decree of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Indonesia No. 1 / Missi / 1959. Since then until the enactment of the BAL in 2006, several aspects of national law have become different in Aceh. This then sparked controversy, especially regarding the position of Non-Muslims and religious freedom. This article tries to explain how the application of Islamic Law in Aceh in relation to the Non-Muslim population and its solution. The study found that the relationship between Muslims and Non-Muslims in Aceh, especially in the social aspects of society, took place harmoniously. The application of Islamic Law in Aceh only applies to Muslims and there is no coercion for Non-Muslims. In this case, according to the author, it also offers the concept of "Conducted by Waliya Dien" in addressing religious plurality in Aceh, and the attitude of making Pancasila as "Kalimatun Sawa’ in the corridors of living in a state.

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