The Internet as Material Object in Social Practices: Recording and Analysis of Human-Internet Interactions

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Carstensen
Keyword(s):  
Market Research ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
Material Object ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Methodological Approaches

In the course of sociological research about the Internet, an accompanying range of new methodological approaches have been developed to investigate usage, communication, processes of appropriation, and the virtuality of the Internet. However, the exploration of the Internet as a technological and material object as well as the question of how it is involved in human practices are seen more rarely. This paper presents a methodology of software-based recording and an analysis of the interactions between humans and the Internet, which are visible on the screen. Adding methods of usability and market research to sociological Internet research, this enables us to “move closer” to the technology and to get a detailed view of human practices and Internet “actions” on the interface; therewith, it will be possible to investigate how social practices proceed when Internet technologies are involved, how users handle the Internet and to what extent it enables, facilitates, limits, or hinders practices.

Digital Rights Management

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kumik
Keyword(s):  
Market Research ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Global Arena

It was only three years ago that I was told that publishing valuable digital content on the Internet would not take off for 10 years. Today it is happening all around us with MP3 music files being swapped by our children and market research reports openly passed between business colleagues. The problem is that the intellectual property owners lose control of distribution through publishing content on the Internet – in its raw essence, an unregulated global arena – and then, more often than not, do not get paid for use of a large percentage of their content, This is perhaps the greatest reason why publishers have been unwilling to place valuable content online. Historically low-value content has taken up the vast majority of what we have been able to access online with companies hoping to recoup costs through advertising revenue. The reason is simple; conventional Internet technologies do not have any facilities for enforcing copyright, but the problem is that advertising revenues are dwindling so publishers need to find other ways of generating revenue. We can now look back with a sense of irony at straplines from major technology companies saying “Information at your finger tips”, “Information where and how you need it” as this is exactly what they are now trying to prevent so that they can keep an element of control.

ROPO Effect in Gender- Generational Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-43
Author(s):  
Radovan Bačík ◽  
Mária Oleárová ◽  
Martin Rigelský
Keyword(s):  
Association Analysis ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Customer Behavior ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Online Purchase ◽  
Brick And Mortar

The development of the Internet and the current technologies have contributed to a significant progress in the consumer shopping process. Today, shopping decisions are more intuitive and much easier to make. E-shops, search engines, customer reviews and other similar tools reduce costs of searching for products or product information, thus boosting the habit of searching for information on the Internet - "Research Shopper Phenomenon" (Verhoef et al. 2007). According to Verhoef et al. (2015), this phenomenon leads to a phenomenon where consumers search for product information using one channel (Internet) and then make a purchase through another channel (brick-and-mortar shop). Heinrich and Thalmair (2013) refer to this effect as the "research online, purchase offline" or "ROPO" effect for short. This phenomenon can also be observed in reverse. Keywords: customer behavior, research online – purchase offline, association analysis

Databases, GIS and Internet technologies with the purpose of identifying the soldiers who went missing in action in the Great Patriotic War

2017 ◽  
Vol 926 (8) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
O.S. Lazareva ◽  
M.V. Shalaeva ◽  
S.N. Shekotilova ◽  
V.G. Shekotilov
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Gis Technologies ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Automated Processing ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Post War ◽  
Missing In Action

There was a discrepancy found between the practice of identification of the soldiers who went missing in action during the Great Patriotic War and also the reburied ones and the possibilities of automated processing of the war and post-war archive documents using modern information technology. Using the practical application of the mix of technologies of the databases, geographic information systems and the Internet as an example there is a possibility demonstrated to establish the destiny of a soldier who was considered missing in action. As far as the GIS technologies are concerned the methods of forming the atlas of rastre electronic maps and vector maps with the data from the archive sources have been the most significant. The atlas of raster electronic maps of the Great Patriotic War period for the Kalinin Battle Front and the 30th army which was formed in the process of research has been registered in Rospatent in the form of database. The functionality of the research was provided by applying various programming means

scholarly journals Mind games: A temporal sentiment analysis of the political messages of the Internet Research Agency on Facebook and Twitter

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110143
Author(s):  
Soyoung Park ◽  
Sharon Strover ◽  
Jaewon Choi ◽  
MacKenzie Schnell
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
2016 Election

This study examines the temporal dynamics of emotional appeals in Russian campaign messages used in the 2016 election. Communications on two giant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, are analyzed to assess emotion in message content and targeting that may have contributed to influencing people. The current study conducts both computational and qualitative investigations of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) emotion-based strategies across three different dimensions of message propagation: the platforms themselves, partisan identity as targeted by the source, and social identity in politics, using African American identity as a case. We examine (1) the emotional flows along the campaign timeline, (2) emotion-based strategies of the Russian trolls that masked left- and right-leaning identities, and (3) emotion in messages projecting to or about African American identity and representation. Our findings show sentiment strategies that differ between Facebook and Twitter, with strong evidence of negative emotion targeting Black identity.

scholarly journals Trusted Base Stations-Based Privacy Preserving Technique in Location-Based Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aqib ◽  
Jonathan Cazalas
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Path ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Google Maps ◽  
Privacy Issue ◽  
Internet Technologies

With the advent in mobile and internet technologies, there is a significant increase in the number of users using smartphones and other internet based applications. There are a large number of applications available online that use the internet and provide useful information to the users. These include ones that provide location-based services e.g. google maps etc. These applications provide many facilities to the users who want information regarding a specific area or directions using an optimal path to a destination. Due to these reasons, the number of clients using these applications is increasing on a daily basis. Although these services are very useful and are making it easy for us to get information about our surroundings, some issues are also linked with the use of these applications and their services. One of the more significant issues of using these services is privacy with respect to sending personal location information to location-based services servers. Researchers have provided many solutions to solve these issues. One of the solutions is through caching and use of k-anonymity techniques. In this paper, we have proposed a method to solve the privacy issue that uses caching data approach to reduce the number of queries sent to the location-based services server. We also discuss the use of the concept of k-anonymity when no relevant data is available in cache, and queries are sent to the server.

scholarly journals The Internet´s role in the Bersih movement in Malaysia – A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Melanie Radue
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Technological Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Everywhere in the media, people talk about the so-called “Twitter and Facebook revolution” in regard to the Green Revolution in Iran or other new social movements which demand democratization in their countries and use the Internet for communication and mobilization. Libertarian advocates of the Internet state that the Internet has democratizing effects because of its reputed egalitarian, open and free technological structure for communication processes. Especially in countries in which the media is under strict control by the government, these characteristics are emphasized as stimulation for political liberalization and democratization processes. This essay critically examines the alleged democratizing effect of the use of the Internet on the Malaysian society exemplified on the social movement Bersih. The Bersih movement demands free and fair elections in Malaysia, often described as an ethnocratic and “electoral authoritarian regime”. 141 The objective of this study is to demonstrate the dependency of such possible effects on context.

HEALTH-SAVING TECHNOLOGIES AS SOCIAL PRACTICES IN THE MODERN RUSSIAN FAMILY

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Krul A.S.
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Family ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Modern Russian

The paper presents a study of modern social practices of health care in the family. The problem of research is determined by the need to implement health-saving technologies such as living conditions and family life, as well as the introduction of social practices of healthy lifestyles in primary groups. The relevance of the topic is determined by the conditions for the development of modern Russian society, which are characterized by the need to form a social institution of healthy lifestyle and mandatory components in the form of social practices for informal groups. From this perspective, the natural course of development is the institution of the family, which takes on the task of introducing a healthy lifestyle as a system of daily activities. The study is based on the institutional analysis of health-preserving technologies in the family, the basis for the analysis was the theoretical and methodological principles of studying society as a social system (T. Parsons, N. Luhmann). The model for representing health-saving technologies in the everyday practices of the modern Russian family is based on the model of systems of social actions by T. Parsons and the model of the functioning of the family as a social institution by R. Merton. The empirical base is based on the author's sociological research: a survey, an expert survey, document analysis, macrosociological analysis and modeling (from 2016 to 2021), as well as the results of studies conducted by All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), The Levada Center (2018). As a result of the research, an analysis of the social practices of a healthy lifestyle in a modern Russian family was carried out; the components of a healthy lifestyle were presented as a condition for the development of health-saving technologies in the daily actions of an individual. The model of social practices of healthy lifestyles in a modern Russian family is based on the institutional analysis of the family.

Radical isomorphism and the anti-authoritarian diffusion of leaderless organizations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Institutional Isomorphism ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Central Organization

Social movements are interested in the creation of alternative social practices, but must rely upon previous ideas and actions for a starting place. Ideally, anarchists seek to borrow good ideas and avoid bad ideas. This is challenging given anarchist movements’ horizontalist structures—tactics and organizational forms must be transmitted non-hierarchically in order to remain legitimate, as there is not central organization managing, authorizing, and dictating to new anarchist organizations. They key means for institutional isomorphism—how organizations tend to have comparable characteristics—with anarchist movements, is mimicry. This chapter analyses the creation and founding iterations of four “anarchistic franchise organizations”: Anti-Racist Action, Critical Mass, Earth First!, and Food Not Bombs. These tactics and organizational forms have spread through networks of activists and organizers (mainly via word-of-mouth and first-hand experience) and media (especially the Internet, as well as activist press and sometimes mainstream media).

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