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.

THE RELEVANCE PEOPLE ASSIGN TO ALGORITHMIC-SELECTION APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael V. Reiss ◽  
Noemi Festic ◽  
Michael Latzer ◽  
Tanja Rüedy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Social

The fast-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. In particular social media are found to be of relatively low assigned relevance for all life domains investigated. 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 ¿CÓMO EVALUAR EL IMPACTO SOCIAL DE LA FORMACIÓN CONTINUA EN EL CONTEXTO Y ALCANCE DE LA UNIVERSIDAD EN CIENCIAS PEDAGÓGICAS «JOSÉ MARTÍ» DE CAMAGÜEY? RESULTADOS DEL 2012 AL 2014.

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Erenia de la C. Martínez-Escoda ◽  
Javier López-Fernández ◽  
Belkis Yaisy Zulueta-Morciego
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Initial Results ◽  
Center Study

El artículo describe la metodología general para la evaluación del impacto social de la formación continua en el contexto y alcance de la Universidad en Ciencias Pedagógicas «José Martí» en Cuba, así como los resultados y las experiencias alcanzados desde el año 2012 hasta el 2014 por el Centro de Estudios para la Evaluación de la Calidad Educacional. Se emplean métodos en los niveles teórico, empírico y estadístico, y como resultado se determinan los impactos sociales, partiendo de la sistematización de contenidos relativos a la calidad en la educación superior pedagógica, asociada a la obtención de la excelencia académica en relación con la pertinencia social. Además, sistematiza el tránsito desde un proceso macroevaluativo que brinda resultados iniciales hasta subprocesos microevaluativos que contienen estudios de profundización.AbstractThe paper describes the general methodology for evaluating the social impact of continuing training in the context and scope of Pedagogical Sciences University "José Martí" in Cuba, as well as results and experiences gained from 2012 to 2014 by the Center Study for the Evaluation of Educational Quality. Methods of theoretical, empirical and statistical is empelaron. As a result, social impacts, based on the systematization of content relating to quality in teaching higher education, associated with the procurement of academic excellence for social relevance, besides traffic from systematized process that provides macroevaluativo obtained initial results until microevaluativos threads containing depth studies.Keywords: diversity, quality, social impact and social impact assessment.

scholarly journals Mapping Compulsive Buying Behavior of M-commerce Consumers in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
MUHAMMAD USHA MALIK ◽  
SHAFEI MOIZ HALI ◽  
MUHAMMAD AIZZAN MALIK
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Compulsive Buying ◽  
Major Contributor ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Impact Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Platforms

In the last decade, emergence of different technological platforms have drastically influenced and altered societies across the globe. Social commerce or S-commerce which is an off shoot of e-commerce has become part of everyday life among consumers. Mobile commerce also known as m-commerce is a major contributor towards S-commerce. The current research intends to investigate the compulsive buying behavior and conspicuous online consumption frameworks in the context of m-commerce. This study is targets the trends of m commerce within the context of developing country like Pakistan. The current research aims at highlighting how the antecedents involved in the frameworks of compulsive buying behavior and conspicuous online consumption translate into behaviors in the context of m-commerce. The significance of the study can be judged from the fact that, it will help contribute towards to body of knowledge concerning modern social consumptions patterns of the consumers triggered by the m-commerce applications. The research utilizes the lens of the social impact theory with peers and m-commerce, based on the SOR model. The selected population for undertaking the study comprised of consumers who consume different products (i.e. apparel, gadgets, cosmetics and jewelry etc.). This study has diverse theoretical and managerial contribution in the field of consumer behavior. As the results of this study also validated the SOR model and as well as social impact theory in the context of the m-commerce. Secondly, this study taken participation and desire for self-promotion as an organism. And participation was directly inclined by the familiarity and closeness. Keywords: S-commerce, Compulsive Buying Behavior, Conspicuous Online Consumption, Social Impact Theory, SOR Model.

scholarly journals Gender-based approach on the social impact and mental health in Spain during COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e044617
Author(s):  
Constanza Jacques-Aviñó ◽  
Tomàs López-Jiménez ◽  
Laura Medina-Perucha ◽  
Jeroen de Bont ◽  
Alessandra Queiroga Gonçalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based

ObjectiveLockdown has impacts on people’s living conditions and mental health. The study aims to assess the relations between social impact and mental health among adults living in Spain during COVID-19 lockdown measures, taking a gender-based approach into account.Design, setting and participantsWe conducted a cross-sectional study among adults living in Spain during the lockdown of COVID-19 with an online survey from 8 April to 28 May 2020. The main variable was mental health measured by Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale for anxiety and the Patient Health Questionnaire for depression. Sex-stratified multivariate ordinal logistic regression models were constructed to assess the association between social impact variables, anxiety and depression.ResultsA total of 7053 people completed this survey. A total of 31.2% of women and 17.7% of men reported anxiety. Depression levels were reported in 28.5% of women and 16.7% of men. A higher proportion of anxiety and depression levels was found in the younger population (18–35 years), especially in women. Poorer mental health was mainly related to fear of COVID-19 infection, with higher anxiety levels especially in women (adjusted ordinal OR (aOR): 4.23, 95% CI 3.68 to 4.87) and worsened economy with higher levels of depression in women (aOR: 1.51, 95% CI 1.24 to 1.84), and perceived inadequate housing to cope with lockdown was especially associated with anxiety in men (aOR: 2.53, 95% CI 1.93 to 3.44).ConclusionThe social impact of the lockdown is related to gender, age and socioeconomic conditions. Women and young people had worse mental health outcomes during lockdown. It is urgent to establish strategies for public health emergencies that include mental health and its determinants, taking a gender-based approach into account, in order to reduce health inequities.

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 NARRATIVES OF DEATH IN RURAL MALAWI IN THE TIME OF AIDS

Africa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ashforth ◽  
Susan Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Retributive Punishment ◽  
Online Archive

ABSTRACTThe key to understanding the experience of AIDS mortality lies in the stories that people tell each other about those they know who are suspected to have died from AIDS. We use a unique set of texts produced by rural Malawians reporting everyday conversations in their communities. These texts, drawn from the online archive of the Malawi Journals Project, consist of several thousand instances of ordinary people telling each other stories in the ordinary course of their lives. They are a form of insider ethnography, accounts of everyday life written by people immersed in the lives of their communities. Through analysis of these texts, we show that narratives of death are predicated upon the question ‘Who is to blame?’ We argue that a micropolitics of blame arises from practices of narrating death and shapes individual and collective responses to the epidemic. When we pay attention to the details of the production and exchange of these stories, we can see how the fact that narratives of death are predicated upon the question of blame both expresses and produces a desire for justice, both for the righting of wrongs through retributive punishment and for the restoration of harmonious social relations among the living. This desire for justice, we argue, is a central feature of the social impact of AIDS.

scholarly journals Transformations in the Social Impact: Politics, Media, Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Svetlana Alexandrova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

The article analyzes the role of political elites and the media in shaping public opinion and the direction of public attention. Focusing on the transformations in the social impact under the influence of network culture in the online communication environment, it examines how the role of traditional structures of power is transformed, and how this affects political culture, the formation of public opinion, and its participation in socio-political life. Social networks are a means of dialogue and organization, and this requires political elites and the media to consult and comply with active public opinion in the online communication environment.

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 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social and educational aspects of Saudi university students’ lives

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250026
Author(s):  
Abdulelah A. Alghamdi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Impact Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic led to surprising and unexpected experiences for Saudi university students. Precautionary and preventive measures taken to contain this pandemic impacted the social and educational aspects of these students’ lives. All Umm Al-Qura University (UQU) students were invited to participate in an online survey on 30 impacts, both positive and negative, of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives. Social impact theory (SIT) was applied to illustrate these impacts. The survey yielded 1,360 responses. The results showed high to moderate levels of agreement regarding students’ perceptions of the positive and negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives, with social aspects impacted more than educational ones; and no statistically significant gender differences. Weak correlations were found between the social aspects and the educational aspects of students’ lives in relation to the impact of the pandemic, although all aspects were correlated positively. The SIT framework provided insights into how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted students’ lives.

Navigating the maze: Deepfakes, cognitive ability, and social media news skepticism

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110191
Author(s):  
Saifuddin Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Sample ◽  
The Relationship

The early apprehensions about how deepfakes (also deep fakes) could be weaponized for social and political purposes are now coming to pass. This study is one of the first to examine the social impact of deepfakes. Using an online survey sample in the United States, this study investigates the relationship between citizen concerns regarding deepfakes, exposure to deepfakes, inadvertent sharing of deepfakes, the cognitive ability of individuals, and social media news skepticism. Results suggest that deepfakes exposure and concerns are positively related to social media news skepticism. In contrast, those who frequently rely on social media as a news platform are less skeptical. Higher cognitive abled individuals are more skeptical of news on social media. The moderation findings suggest that among those who are more concerned about deepfakes, inadvertently sharing a deepfake is associated with heightened skepticism. However, these patterns are more pronounced among low than high cognitive individuals.

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