Search results for " Social Networks"
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Anàlisi feminista de les xarxes socials de les migrants colombianes al País Valencià
2010
The results of this piece of research2 on migrant women3 are presented from a feminist approach. The research shows the current diversity in migration processes and, specifically, the key role of finding out the social practices of political migrants. The differences and similarities found in the two groups' social networks and practices are identified and compared from a social point of view, through a completely new interpretation of the concepts of economic and political migrants. This research thus aims to understand the characteristics of participative practices within the group of Colombian migrants living and taking part in two societies at the same time.
Exploiting community detection to recommend privacy policies in decentralized online social networks
2018
The usage of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has become a daily activity for billions of people that share their contents and personal information with the other users. Regardless of the platform exploited to provide the OSNs’ services, these contents’ sharing could expose the OSNs’ users to a number of privacy risks if proper privacy-preserving mechanisms are not provided. Indeed, users must be able to define its own privacy policies that are exploited by the OSN to regulate access to the shared contents. To reduce such users’ privacy risks, we propose a Privacy Policies Recommended System (PPRS) that assists the users in defining their own privacy policies. Besides suggesting the most appro…
Conflict and segregation in networks: An experiment on the interplay between individual preferences and social influence
2016
We examine the interplay between a person's individual preference and the social influence others exert. We provide a model of network relationships with conflicting preferences, where individuals are better off coordinating with those around them, but where not all have a preference for the same action. We test our model in an experiment, varying the level of conflicting preferences between individuals. Our findings suggest that preferences are more salient than social influence, under conflicting preferences: subjects relate mainly with others who have the same preferences. This leads to two undesirable outcomes: network segregation and social inefficiency. The same force that helps peopl…
Automatic evaluation of information provider reliability and expertise
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: World Wide Web. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11280-013-0249-x Q&A social media have gained a lot of attention during the recent years. People rely on these sites to obtain information due to a number of advantages they offer as compared to conventional sources of knowledge (e.g., asynchronous and convenient access). However, for the same question one may find highly contradicting answers, causing an ambiguity with respect to the correct information. This can be attributed to the presence of unreliable and/or non-expert users. These two attributes (reliability and expertise) significantly affect the quality o…
Students’ social networks and vaccination behaviour in Italian junior high schools: preliminary results from the "VacciniAmo le Scuole" project.
2015
Students; social networks; vaccination; behavior; high schools
Empirically-derived subgroups of Facebook users and their association with personality characteristics: a Latent Class Analysis
2018
Abstract In recent years, considerable research effort has been directed at the identification of relationships between psychological variables and Facebook usage indicators. However, the identification of homogeneous subgroups of individuals based on similar Facebook usage characteristics still presents a challenge. This study aims: (1) to empirically determine homogeneous groups of Facebook users based on variables regarding their personal experience on Facebook, by using a Latent Class Analysis; and (2) to examine the association between an individual's personality and interpersonal characteristics and the empirically-derived profiles of Facebook usage. Eight hundred and eleven Facebook …
Un luogo dell’immagine. Flickr e la visione collettiva on-line.
2008
Con questo apporto si intende effettuare un'analisi generale dei principali aspetti teorico-culturali aperti dalle nuove tecnologie di condivisione delle immagini. In particolare ci si concentra sulle modificazioni antropologiche che discendono da tale innovazione.
Sociālie tīkli kā produkta virzīšanas un pārdošanas rīks augstskolu izvēles kontekstā.
2019
Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Sociālie tīkli kā produkta virzīšanas un pārdošanas rīks augstskolu izvēles procesā”. Darba mērķis ir, balstoties uz teorijas atziņām par sociālajiem tīkliem un veiktās aptaujas rezultātiem, novērtēt sociālos tīklus kā mārketinga instrumentu un tā efektivitāti augstskolu izvēles veiksmīgai virzīšanai, atklāt nepilnības un sniegt priekšlikumus to novēršanai Darbs sastāv no 3 nodaļām. 1. nodaļā ir raksturoti sociālie tīkli mārketinga kontekstā kā virzīšanas instruments un tā teorētiskie aspekti. 2. nodaļā ir analizēti pieejamie statistikas dati par sociālo tīklu lietošanas tendencēm, kā arī par augstskolu jau esošajām mārketinga aktivitātēm sociālajos tīklos. Darba tr…
Significati vecchi e nuovi di ideologia: una rassegna
2020
Old ideologies, defined as «grand narratives», seem to have faded away, but this is not a conclusive argument to state that ideology has, itself, disappeared. In fact, there are strong reasons to believe that it has not. In the first part, this article offers a synthetic survey of some of the most significant conceptions of ideology in order to avoid the confusion generated by uncritical uses of the term. The vantage point of the analysis is the fundamental conceptual opposition between «ideology» and «praxis» («truth», or «reality»). The second part of the article opens up some questions about how the new forms of ideology may thrive in the new spaces created by the communication technolog…
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: EMIGRATION FROM LATVIA TO THE UNITED KINGDOM
2013
Elektroniskā versija nesatur pielikumus