“Hard” High-Investment Adult-Age Adventure Play in the Off Hours

2022 ◽  
pp. 462-487
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Network Development ◽  
Niche Space ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Investment

Globally, adults engage in various forms of high-investment adventure play in their leisure. Sometimes, these are complementary to their careers, their self-identities, and their social circles. This type of adventure play requires investments in learning, KSA (knowledge, skills, and abilities) development, social network development, time, moneys, reputation, and other costs. It may involve some level of risk-taking. This work explores this niche space of “hard” adventure play as expressed on the Social Web as a type of peer-shared teaching and learning, with a focus on “luxury geocaching” as the activity.

Respondents in Asian Cultures (e.g., Chinese) are More Risk-Seeking and More Overconfident than Respondents in Other Cultures (e.g., in United States) but the Reciprocal Predictions are in Total Opposition: How and Why?

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Li ◽  
Yongqing Fang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Risk Preferences ◽  
Risk Preference ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Risk Seeking ◽  
The Social ◽  
Predicted Risk

AbstractTriggered by rather surprising findings that respondents in Asian cultures (e.g., Chinese) are more risk-seeking and more overconfident than respondents in other cultures (e.g., in United States) and that the reciprocal predictions are in total opposition, four experiments were designed to extend previous collective-culture oriented researches. Results revealed that (1) Singapore 21, which is a vision of Singapore in the 21st century and has highlighted the promotion of a collective culture, did not advocate greater risk-seeking but led to weaker overconfidence; (2) the knowledge of "financial help from social network" did not permit prediction of risk preference but the knowledge of "the value difference between possible outcomes" did; (3) the social network could be viewed not only as a positive "cushion" but also as a negative "burden" in both gain and loss domains of risky choices; (4) the predictions of the risk-as-value, risk-as-feelings and stereotype hypotheses were not consistent with the predicted risk preferences of others but the predictions of the economic-performance hypothesis were consistent with the predicted risk preferences as well as the predicted overconfidence of others. The implications for cross-cultural variations in overconfidence and for cross-cultural variations in risk-taking were discussed.

The Effect of Interlocking Director Network on Corporate Risk Taking: Lessons from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Su ◽  
Heng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Network Theory ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chinese Listed Companies ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
Director Network ◽  
Corporate Risk ◽  
Risk Taking Behaviors

Abstract Using a dataset of Chinese listed companies, this article quantizes the centrality of interlocking director network based on the social network analysis and examines the effect of interlocking director network on corporate risk taking. The empirical results find that when interlocking director networks have a high centrality, network members are more likely to imitate risk-taking behaviors. Marketization and investment opportunities have positive moderating effects, indicating boundary conditions in social network theory.

The Alt-social Network of Natalie Bookchin’s Testament

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-477
Author(s):  
Sarah Whitcomb Laiola
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Web ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Direct Translation ◽  
The Social

This article addresses issues of user precarity and vulnerability in online social networks. As social media criticism by Jose van Dijck, Felix Stalder, and Geert Lovink describes, the social web is a predatory system that exploits users’ desires for connection. Although accurate, this critical description casts the social web as a zone where users are always already disempowered, so fails to imagine possibilities for users beyond this paradigm. This article examines Natalie Bookchin’s composite video series, Testament, as it mobilizes an alt-(ernative) social network of vernacular video on YouTube. In the first place, the alt-social network works as an iteration of “tactical media” to critically reimagine empowered user-to-user interactions on the social web. In the second place, it obfuscates YouTube’s data-mining functionality, so allows users to socialize online in a way that evades their direct translation into data and the exploitation of their social labor.

scholarly journals VIDEO AND AUDIO CONTENT ARE EFFECTIVE COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (65) ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
A. Simhayev ◽  
T. Derkach ◽  
T. Dmytrenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Network Development ◽  
Network Database ◽  
Effective Components ◽  
The Social ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
User Friendly

The questions of the necessity to develop a social network are considered. The developed social network is offered for publishing new posts, adding and removing other members from the friends list, personal correspondence with any member. Particular attention is paid to the issues of using video content and the reasons for the popularity of video content are determined. A simple and user-friendly design is proposed to accomplish the task. The functions of the user in the developed system are considered and the use cases diagram is constructed. The social network database is described. The choice of the PHP programming language for the task implementation is analyzed and substantiated. Features of use and advantages of Open Server and Bootstrap framework are considered. The use in the development of the social network Ajax - the technology of developing web-applications has been substantiated. The work of the developed social network on the part of the user and the administrator are described. Particular attention is paid to the authorization of the user on the network, for the safety of pages. The test results are presented to check the system's correctness and the compliance of its implementation with the requirements. The project has been uploaded to shared hosting, which makes the social network ready for use on the Internet

scholarly journals The Application of Social Networks in Assisting out-of-class Interactions: A case Study of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Dalat University

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Tuan ◽  
Nguyen Thanh Hong An
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Positive Feedbacks ◽  
Pilot Scheme ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the application of social networks in assisting out-of-class interactions in the context of Vietnam. A group of lecturers and students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Dalat University was chosen to participate in a pilot scheme, using a social network called Edmodo to assist the out-of-class interactions between lecturers and students in the courses in charge in one academic year. The results show that the social network improves the efficiency of out-of-class interactions among participants and receive positive feedbacks from both students and lecturers. The results also indicate that the use of social networks in education is feasible and will improve the teaching and learning efficiency. However, the results also suggest that lecturers should carefully plan academic activities and provide students with proper incentives to motivate their participation into the class online interactive activities.

Impact of Social Network Media Performance in Academic Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1) ◽  
pp. 64-67
Author(s):  
R. Sebastiyan ◽  
V. Rameshbabu
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Network Media ◽  
The Everyday

Since the tremendous growth of the internet, the social networking media have become an essential part in the everyday life of academic people. This study tries to find and fill the gap between the teaching and learning in the academic culture of engineering institution by selecting the best social network media to promote and develop online quality content of educational resources. This kind of study pulse the mentality of academic student in private engineering institution through structural questionnaire survey method have been taken and made the best situation solution. The study recommends that academic students should record scholarly accomplishment of gigantic against successive accessing social network media.

The Social Network and Community Approach for Enterprise 2.0

2012 ◽  
pp. 662-685
Author(s):  
Mariano Corso ◽  
Antonella Martini ◽  
Fiorella Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise 2.0 ◽  
Network Development ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Sales And Marketing ◽  
The Social

Enterprise 2.0, or E2.0, refers to a set of organisational and technological approaches steered to enable new organisational models based on open involvement, emergent collaboration, knowledge sharing, and internal/external social network development and exploitation. It aims to respond to the new features and needs of people and boosts flexibility, adaptability, and innovation. Based on evidence from 52 case studies, a survey and a co-laboratory approach conducted by the Observatory on E2.0, the chapter analyses the social enterprise approach, which is one of the emerging E2.0 models. Specifically, this chapter reports the application areas (such as social network and community and unified communication & collaboration), the barriers for sales and marketing, and finally, the managerial guidelines.

Wikipedaktik: Kollaborative Sachlexikografie als Lehr- und Lerngegenstand im Deutschunterricht

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2018) ◽  
pp. 37-66
Author(s):  
Eva Gredel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Skills

AbstractThis paper introduces the research field of Wikipedactics with a focus on the relevance of Wikipedia’s lexicographic aspects for German lessons in higher education: The central issue is to describe one of the most successful digital platforms of the Social Web as a worthwhile teaching and learning subject. It explains Wikipedia’s hypertextual nature, its micro- and macro-structure and details scenarios of use in the classroom and the lecture hall. The paper demonstrates how pupils and students can develop digital skills and information competences when using Wikipedia. Furthermore, the didactic potential of digital tools such as Wikibu and WikiWatchdog enabling the reflected access of Wikipedia users to the online-encyclopaedic content is evaluated.

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