scholarly journals REVIEW, Classification AND VISUALISATION of opinion dynamics IN SOCIAL COMMUNITIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Ю.А. Дорофеева ◽  
П.Д. Ермолаев
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Relationship Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Technical Possibility ◽  
Python Programming

В теории игр существует множество различных динамик мнений для социальных сообществ. Процессы обмена мнениями, формирование и изменение как коллективного, так и индивидуального мнений напрямую зависят от вида социального сообщества, условий взаимодействия всех участников, возможности достижения консенсуса, вида взаимосвязи между каждым из членов коллектива и других факторов. Каждая из закономерностей имеет определенные характеристики, некоторые из которых являются обобщающими. Важной задачей является численное моделирование с визуализацией процесса изменения мнений. Это позволит анализировать взаимодействие участников более эффективно. Также графическое представление позволяет рассматривать формирование новых мнений и сходимость более детально, оценивать поведение каждого участника и попытку «уклониться» от консенсуса. Другой не менее важной задачей является классификация социальных динамик по следующим признакам: сходимость мнений (достижение консенсуса); наличие порога доверия (эта характеристика позволит разбивать все сообщество на подгруппы согласно уровню доверия участников друг к другу); виды взаимодействия между участниками (парное и групповое). Оба этих аспекта позволяют систематизировать наиболее «популярные» закономерности, а также наглядно и обстоятельно рассмотреть процесс изменения мнений участников и сходимость их мнений. В работе рассматриваются различные динамики мнений внутри социальных сообществ. Выбор социальных динамик, представленных в данном исследовании, обусловлен двумя критериями. Первым является цитируемость научных работ с их описанием в поисковых системах и научных базах. Вторым - техническая возможность визуализации на языке программирования Python. There is a bunch of different opinion dynamics for social communities in game theory. The processes of opinions exchange, the formation and change of both collective and individual opinions directly depend on the social community type, the participants interaction conditions, the consensus possibility, the relationship type between each of the team members and other factors. Every regularity has certain characteristics, some of them are generalizing. An important task is numerical modeling with visualization of the changing opinions process. This will allow to analyze the interaction of participants more effectively. Also, the graphical presentation allows us to consider the formation of new opinions and convergence in more detail, to evaluate the behavior of each participant and an attempt to “avoid” the consensus. Another important task is the classification of social dynamics according to the following criteria: convergence of opinions (the achievability of consensus); the trust threshold presence (this characteristic will allow the entire community to be divided into subgroups according to the trust level of the participants to each other); types of interaction between participants (paired, group). Both of these aspects make it possible to systematize the most "popular" patterns, as well as to visually and thoroughly examine the changing participants’ opinions process and the convergence of their opinions. There are different opinion dynamics within social communities examined in this paper. Dynamics presented in this study were selected due to two criteria. The first one is the citation of scientific works with their description in search engines and scientific databases. The second criterion is the technical possibility of visualization in the Python programming language.

scholarly journals A variational-autoencoder approach to solve the hidden profile task in hybrid human-machine teams

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niccolo Pescetelli ◽  
Patrik Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Simple Majority ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Variational Autoencoder ◽  
Hidden Profile ◽  
Hybrid Teams

Online, social media bots have been accused to spread misinformation and support extreme or minority-held opinions. However, bots in hybrid human-machine teams can also be designed to improve team performance. In this paper, we study the effect of a single minority-supporting bot in hybrid teams in a carefully controlled experiment. People working in teams of 10 were asked to solve a hidden-profile prediction task, where task-relevant information was scattered unequally across team members. To do well in this task, pieces of information shared by the minority and the majority of players should be integrated. Simple majority-based decisions are not enough to perform well as information held by minority players is also valuable. We used a variational auto-encoder to train a bot to learn people's information distribution by observing how people's judgements correlated over time. After training, a bot was designed to increase team performance by selectively supporting opinions proportionally to their under-representation in the team. We show that the presence of a single bot (representing 10\% of team members) can significantly increase the polarization between minority and majority opinions by making minority opinions less prone to social influence. Although the effects on hybrid team performance were negligible, the bot presence significantly influenced team opinion dynamics. These findings show that unsupervised learning can be used to program bots that can improve team performance.

scholarly journals LiveWell – Promoting Healthy Living and Wellbeing for Parkinson Patients through Social Network and ICT Training

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maged N. Kamel Boulos ◽  
Emmanuel Ifeachor ◽  
Javier Escudero ◽  
Peng Zhao ◽  
Camille Carroll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Ict Training ◽  
Web Based Education

About 1.2 million people in Europe have Parkinson's disease (PD). PD patients often suffer from social exclusion and depression due to progressive lack of control over the disease. Eventually, most require constant care, leading to huge socioeconomic burdens. To partially tackle this issue, 7 partners in 7 countries participated in LiveWell (EU-funded project, 2012-14) to develop an innovative Web-based education, training and social community platform targeting PD patients, carers and clinicians. This paper describes LiveWell from conception to completion, presents lessons learnt over the course of the project, and highlights some identified main areas of best practice. The Project Consortium might not have had the chance to implement everything learnt in the current outputs, but these lessons and guidelines can be later used to improve LiveWell, and can also be generalised to benefit similar e-health services. The combination of appropriate online education and social communities could help patients and carers cope positively with PD, promoting social inclusion and better outcomes.

scholarly journals MOTIVASI TIM SEPAKBOLA

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Atiq
Keyword(s):  
Homogeneous Group ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Entry Requirements ◽  
Unit Unit ◽  
And Behavior

All team members must be motivated to work as part of a group of highly motivated and compact. Scientific approach to help coaches improve teamwork menuaikan task. There are several keys to motivating a team. compactness can be developed especially through the use of a perceptual approach to motivate and by always emphasizing its important thoughts and behavior are optimistic. in general, and the threat of reprimand is not productive, but if used wisely may be beneficial. Teamwork plays an important role in the motivation tim.kekompakan can be improved by limiting their membership on the team that can meet the entry requirements will ketat.kekompakan also greater in small and homogeneous group and the group that mempuyai clear goals, especially if the achievement of goals is threatened by an opponent. Important task of the coach is to develop cohesiveness tim.dengan determine the factors that affect the cohesiveness, more positively or negatively, the coach can draw up a team of highly motivated unit unit. If it's done well then small teams or large will easily earn achievements with goals in the team ingginkan.sebuah not easily handled if the coach does not have special skills and are able to provide guidance on an ongoing basis in demand means that coaches have expertise with good multi can educate and train.   Kata Kunci : Motivasi, Tim  Sepakbola

Analyzing Work Teams Using Social Network Diagrams

2014 ◽  
pp. 170-191
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Team Members ◽  
The Social ◽  
Workplace Teams ◽  
Project Phases ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Network Diagrams

Workplace teams are a common social structure that enables the successful completion of collaborative projects. They have been studied as “hot” teams, virtual ones, and other manifestations. For both management and team members, it is helpful to have a form of meta-cognition on teams to solve work team issues pre-, during-, and post-project. One way to systematize understandings of a work team is to apply social network analysis to depict the work team’s power structure, its functions, and ways to improve the team’s communications for productivity, creativity, and effective functioning. This chapter depicts three real-world team-based projects as social network diagrams along with some light analysis. This work finds that social network diagrams may effectively shed light on the social dynamics of projects in the pre-, during-, and post-project phases.

Opinion Dynamics

2013 ◽  
pp. 311-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoxiang Xia ◽  
Huili Wang ◽  
Zhaoguo Xuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Social

As a key sub-field of social dynamics and sociophysics, opinion dynamics utilizes mathematical and physical models and the agent-based computational modeling tools, to investigate the spreading of opinions in a collection of human beings. This research field stems from various disciplines in social sciences, especially the social influence models developed in social psychology and sociology. A multidisciplinary review is given in this paper, attempting to keep track of the historical development of the field and to shed light on its future directions. In the review, the authors discuss the disciplinary origins of opinion dynamics, showing that the combination of the social processes, which are conventionally studied in social sciences, and the analytical and computational tools, which are developed in mathematics, physics and complex system studies, gives birth to the interdisciplinary field of opinion dynamics. The current state of the art of opinion dynamics is then overviewed, with the research progresses on the typical models like the voter model, the Sznajd model, the culture dissemination model, and the bounded confidence model being highlighted. Correspondingly, the future directions of this academic field are envisioned, with an advocation for closer synthesis of the related disciplines.

Bridging Diversity across Time and Space

2011 ◽  
pp. 136-158
Author(s):  
Violina Ratcheva
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Knowledge Diversity ◽  
Geographic Separation ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teamwork

The uniqueness of multidisciplinary teamwork is in its potential to integrate different bodies of knowledge into a new synergy. However, previous empirical studies have shown that member heterogeneity and geographic separation hinder effective sharing and use of team knowledge. The chapter explores how such teams interact to overcome the barriers and take advantage of their “built in” knowledge diversity. The findings indicate that often teams lack common background knowledge at the beginning of the projects, and in order to resolve differences members rely on their external intellectual and social communities. The reported research establishes a positive correlation between team members’ participation in multiple professional and social networks and teams’ abilities to successfully build on their knowledge diversity. The findings also suggest a need to reconceptualize the boundaries of multidisciplinary teams and to consider the processes of sharing diverse knowledge in a wider social context.

scholarly journals The Influence of Robot Verbal Support on Human Team Members: Encouraging Outgroup Contributions and Suppressing Ingroup Supportive Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Sebo ◽  
Ling Liang Dong ◽  
Nicholas Chang ◽  
Michal Lewkowicz ◽  
Michael Schutzman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
Supportive Behavior ◽  
Verbal Participation ◽  
Positive Effect

As teams of people increasingly incorporate robot members, it is essential to consider how a robot's actions may influence the team's social dynamics and interactions. In this work, we investigated the effects of verbal support from a robot (e.g., “good idea Salim,” “yeah”) on human team members' interactions related to psychological safety and inclusion. We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N = 39 groups, 117 participants) where the robot team member either (A) gave verbal support or (B) did not give verbal support to the human team members of a human-robot team comprised of 2 human ingroup members, 1 human outgroup member, and 1 robot. We found that targeted support from the robot (e.g., “good idea George”) had a positive effect on outgroup members, who increased their verbal participation after receiving targeted support from the robot. When comparing groups that did and did not have verbal support from the robot, we found that outgroup members received fewer verbal backchannels from ingroup members if their group had robot verbal support. These results suggest that verbal support from a robot may have some direct benefits to outgroup members but may also reduce the obligation ingroup members feel to support the verbal contributions of outgroup members.

scholarly journals Roman social «community» in epigram of Martialis (axiology of the socially differentiated whole)

2020 ◽  
pp. 365-374
Author(s):  
Nikolay N. Misyurov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Material Sources ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Scope Of Application ◽  
Roman Antiquity

The study deals with differentiated social «communities» peculiar to the Roman society of the late period (Empire era), which formed the «meaningful contents» of the everyday life culture constructs. As one of the typical «artifacts» there are considered «book» texts (epigrams of Martialis), reflecting «small» events of social and family life of Rome. The study aims to trace the transformation of traditional social communities (of the class, family, political, professional, ethnic types) caused by historical social practice, Roman ideology, mental concepts and stereotypes of social behavior. The methodology of the study is determined by the interrelations of the «epistemological fields» of related disciplines within which the studied phenomena are represented in different aspects. The research is conducted at the intersection of philosophy, sociology (including sociology of culture) and textual criticism; the axiological aspect of the problem under discussion acquires a special meaning. The analyses of literary sources allows to trace the static and dynamics of the daily culture of antiquity, reflecting the profound changes that occurred both in the formation structures of the «great» Rome and in the sociocultural space of Roman antiquity. The scope of application of the research results is not limited to the field of humanities; possible follow-up may involve expansion of the range of sources (up to material sources, such as archaeological, statistical) and specialization in one of the areas indicated in the paper. The conclusions demonstrate the potential of the axiological approach (in conjunction with the philosophy of culture and social psychology) to the studied social and cultural phenomena.

scholarly journals DIALECTICS OF PESANTREN AND SOCIAL COMMUNITIES IN CULTURAL VALUE TRANSFORMATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Subakri - Bakri ◽  
Rosdee Ibrahim Mangkachi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Study Results

Abstract: Pesantren tends to have an adaptive response towards social changes in community life. This research employed a qualitative approach by using a case study to discern the adaptive strategy of an Islamic boarding school. Then, the data were collected through observations, interviews, and documentaries. Next, they were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman model, namely data collection, condensation, data display, and conclusions drawing simultaneously. Finally, the validity of the data was gained through triangulation. The study results showed that pesantren has actively adapted themselves towards these social demands. Furthermore, it shows that 1) the dialectics of pesantren and social community in transforming cultural values through formal education was done by establishing several formal educations; 2) the dialectics of pesantren and social community in transforming cultural values through non-formal education was done by establishing several non-formal religious-based institutions through pesantren activities. Abstrak: Pesantren dalam kehidupan masyarakat memiliki sikap adaptif terhadap perubahan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif adapun jenis penelitian studi kasus. Penggalian sumber data menggunakan Observasi, wawancara dan dukumenter dan data dianalisi dengan model Miles and Hubermen yaitu pengumpulan data, kondensasi data, penyajian data dan penarikan kesimpulan yang dilakukan bersama. Kemudian keabsahan data menggunakan Triangulasi. Adapun hasil kajian penelitian yaitu pesantren Raudlatul Ulum memiliki sikap adaptif terhadap perubahan yang tergambar sebagai berikut 1.) Dialektika Pondok Pesantren Raudlatul Ulum  dan masyarakat dalam tranformasi nilai budaya melalui Pendidikan formal dengan mendirikan beberapa pendidikan formal. 2) Dialektika Pondok Pesantren Raudlatul Ulum  dan masyarakat dalam tranformasi nilai budaya melalui Pendidikan non formal dengan jalan mendirikan beberapa lembaga non formal yang berbasis keagamaan yang teraktualisasikan melalui aktivitas Pondok Pesantren. 

scholarly journals PHILOSOPHICAL AND AESTHETIC CONCEPT OF SOCIAL COMMUNITY IN OSSETIAN LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
И.А. КАЙТОВА
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
The People ◽  
Material Interests ◽  
Subjective Factor ◽  
Economic Ties

Осетинская литература всегда углубленно и художественно убедительно ис­следовала такие социальные общности, как народ, нация, классы, семья. Объектом ее пристального внимания становились сугубо философские вопросы бытия данных общностей: каковы они с точки зрения их ценностно-аксиологической значимости на конкретном этапе исторического развития общества, в каком направлении они развиваются и какова их историческая судьба в потоке мощной динамики и диалек­тики историко-культурного процесса. В целом та или иная общность в интерпре­тации осетинской литературы – объективная реальность, форма общественной жизни, исторически обусловленная социальной связью между людьми, ее составляю­щими. Кроме того, она особый акцент ставит и на сознательно-духовных факторах общности: язык, традиции, менталитет, мировоззрение, социально-нравственные ценности, идеология. В общности люди объединены типом деятельности в системе общественного производства, включенностью в те или иные хозяйственные связи, об­щими материальными интересами, территорией или пространством, где они живут или работают. В этом смысле социальные общности, в концептуальном понимании осетинской литературы, объективны по своей природе. Но в них также обязательно присутствует и субъективный фактор. Так, любой человек, член той или иной общ­ности, созидает свои собственные связи и отношения в ней, либо обогащая ее потен­циальные возможности в движении к общественному прогрессу, к идеалу, либо умень­шая их. В целом это зависит от личности человека, его гражданской и нравственной зрелости. И потому столь глубоко и внимательно изучает осетинская литература природу, сущность человека, его связи в обществе. Вкратце такова философско-эсте­тическая концепция социальной общности, сформированная осетинской литерату­рой на протяжении всей ее истории. Ossetian literature has always explored in depth and artistically convincingly such social communities as people, nation, classes, and family. The object of her close attention became purely philosophical questions of the existence of these communities: what are they from the point of view of their axiological significance at a particular stage of the historical development of society, in what direction do they develop and what is their historical fate in the flow of powerful dynamics and dialectics of the historical and cultural process. In general, this or that community in the interpretation of Ossetian literature is an objective reality, a form of social life, historically determined by the social connection between the people who make up it. In addition, it places a special emphasis on the conscious-spiritual factors of community. For example, such as language, traditions, mentality, worldview, social and moral values, ideology. In a community, people are united by the type of activity in the system of social production, involvement in certain economic ties, common material interests, the territory or space where they live or work. In this sense, social communities, in the conceptual understanding of Ossetian literature, are objective in nature. But they also necessarily have a subjective factor. Thus, any person, a member of a particular community, creates his own connections and relationships in it, either enriching its potential opportunities in the movement towards social progress, towards the ideal, or reducing them. In general, it depends on the person’s personality, his civic and moral maturity. And that is why Ossetian literature studies the nature, the essence of a person, and his connections in society so deeply and carefully. In short, this is the philosophical and aesthetic concept of social community, formed by the Ossetian literature throughout its history.

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