Collective Attention Research Articles

Canadian Clinical Guidelines on Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults.

Preventing and addressing social isolation and loneliness among older adults is important because of the known associations with negative health outcomes. The Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH) took on the task of creating clinical guidelines. A multidisciplinary working group was established. The process was guided by an initial rapid scoping review of the literature focused on older adults. An adapted GRADE approach was utilized. CCSMH has produced first-ever clinical guidelines on social isolation and loneliness in older adults. Prevention, including recognition of risk factors and educational approaches focused on clinicians and students, is recommended. Targeted screening with validated tools is recommended. A comprehensive assessment is optimal to treat any underlying conditions and to identify contributing factors that may be responsive to psychosocial interventions. An individualized approach to interventions with shared decision-making is recommended. A variety of possible interventions include social prescribing, social activity, physical activity, psychological therapies, animal-assisted therapies and ownership, leisure skill development and activities, and the use of technology. The problem of social isolation and loneliness is a "geriatric" giant that needs to be recognized and addressed. Because of its complexity, it will require the collective attention of many individuals and organizations working together at multiple levels of society, to raise awareness and find solutions. We recommend that health-care and social service providers use these guidelines as a comprehensive tool to identify, assess, and implement strategies to reduce the negative impact of social isolation and loneliness.

Shining a Light on Hidden Containers and Invisible Systems

This article presents an analysis from the perspective of a participant-observer in the "Rethinking DF 2030" project, conducted in Brazil. In this project, Theory U was applied as a journey to foster integration between policymakers and the citizens for whom these policies are designed. The article sheds light on the importance of building both hidden and visible "containers"—purposefully held environments where the quality of collective attention aligns with intention. Through the author's active engagement in this project, the article simultaneously explores the methodological and experiential aspects of Theory U, including its capacity to guide and weave into the application of various other methodologies. The findings highlight both the challenges and potential of a Theory U practitioner's role in a highly complex participatory process.

Fishing with skis, digging with noodles: Resolving task-and-tool mismatches in efforts to advance health equity

When it comes to advancing equity, across the health sciences, efforts repeatedly target interventions on those most burdened by inequities rather than the systems or structures that give rise to inequities. This mismatch, in and of itself, is an important determinant of equity. While many conceptual models draw collective attention to deeper, structural causes (e.g., social, political, and commercial determinants of health) as the 'what', inattention to questions of 'how'–or the collective practices that serve to connect what is known with what is done–are like a wedge holding this gap in place. In this article, we use an exaggerated metaphor of mismatched task-and-tool to provoke critically reflective dialogue about collective attachment to scholarship and practices incoherent with our own body of knowledge. We offer a set of five practices easily integrated in any aspect of work related to advancing equity, through everyday actions anyone (anywhere) can take to purposefully act from an evidence and equity-informed position.

Collective attention and relational overload: A theory of transactive control in high-permeability intraorganizational environments

As rapid organizational and technological change makes boundaries within workplaces more permeable, employees are gaining unprecedented access to new people and information. This both increases opportunities for collaboration and heightens the risk of attention overload. While scholars have investigated overload with respect to “what” employees attend to, little research has examined the challenges concerning “whom” to attend to, resulting in ambiguity that can undermine collaborative relationships. In this paper, we integrate and advance insights from organizational control and selective-attention research, building on those macro- and micro-level theories to better conceptualize collective attention when the potential target is a colleague (human) rather than information (nonhuman)—which we conceptualize as relational attention, i.e., attention-to-whom. Further, we propose a separate, meso-level theory of transactive control of relational attention, building on concepts of transactive behavior from other fields. By exploring how such transactive control works, we begin to define the conditions organizations need to cultivate—regarding mutually transparent availability, synchronous attentional allocation, and reciprocal attentional allocation—to reduce relational overload without sacrificing productive work relationships or other benefits of more permeable internal boundaries. In addition to shedding light on underexamined attention problems in the workplace, this model contributes to future research by forging multi-level connections between individual meta-attention, transactive control over relational attention, and more traditional forms of organizational control.

Collective attention overload in a global manufacturing company: a case study

AbstractThe rapid evolution of information technology (IT) platforms has enabled the collection of vast volumes of data for decision support. These technologies have facilitated an increase in information sharing and collaboration, promising to accelerate problem-solving and foster innovation. However, despite the advancements in this sophisticated and evolving technological landscape, scholars have raised concerns that the collective attention of organizations may be compromised primarily due to the overwhelming volume of information that employees are exposed to daily. Given the limited nature of human attention, this excessive information can impair decision-making and restrict an organization’s capacity to achieve performance enhancements. To understand the IT impact on collective attention, we conducted a case study in a multinational organization in the engineering and electronics sector. Our participants described how an IT platform designed to encourage information sharing and collaboration affected collective mindfulness of opportunities for collaboration and innovation. Despite an innovation culture and careful implementation, the IT platform induced a level of information sharing and collaboration that overwhelmed collective attention, leading to employees failing to achieve the anticipated performance improvements. Our findings caution organizations about how emerging technologies may induce attention overload, undermine collective attention, and detract from collective mindfulness of business opportunities. Our research findings confront the prevalent assumption that an abundance of high-quality information invariably leads to enhanced organizational performance. The article concludes by proposing a research agenda aimed at defining guidelines for the adoption of collaborative IT platforms that prevent overloading collective attention.

Narrative predicts cardiac synchrony in audiences

Audio-visual media possesses a remarkable ability to synchronise audiences’ neural, behavioural, and physiological responses. This synchronisation is considered to reflect some dimension of collective attention or engagement with the stimulus. But what is it about these stimuli that drives such strong engagement? There are several properties of media stimuli which may lead to synchronous audience response: from low-level audio-visual features, to the story itself. Here, we present a study which separates low-level features from narrative by presenting participants with the same content but in separate modalities. In this way, the presentations shared no low-level features, but participants experienced the same narrative. We show that synchrony in participants’ heart rate can be driven by the narrative information alone. We computed both visual and auditory perceptual saliency for the content and found that narrative was approximately 10 times as predictive of heart rate as low-level saliency, but that low-level audio-visual saliency has a small additive effect towards heart rate. Further, heart rate synchrony was related to a separate cohorts’ continuous ratings of immersion, and that synchrony is likely to be higher at moments of increased narrative importance. Our findings demonstrate that high-level narrative dominates in the alignment of physiology across viewers.

Shifting Under Pressure: Timing Practices within Regulatory Information Disclosure Programs

Research examines the process through which regulatory agencies and other powerful third parties publicly disseminate information about organizations in order to reduce the information asymmetry between those organizations and their dispersed or less powerful stakeholders. These disclosure programs are presumed to work by mobilizing stakeholders to pressure organizations for change. Prior studies focus on organizations’ resistance to that external pressure, often drawing from theories of institutional forces and organizational legitimacy. Instead, the present study examines the public disclosure process itself, and adapts research on organizational learning and collective attention focus to develop new theory regarding how organizations may selectively time their practices to influence these disclosures in their favor. Results suggest that organizations may respond to disclosure programs and other governance structures when actively monitored, but may drift out of compliance during intervening periods. Findings also suggest that strong governance outside of the regulatory disclosure process can help to reduce these problems. The study contributes to corporate governance, organizational learning, and other literatures by developing new theory regarding the timing of organizational responses to regulatory interventions, and by providing evidence that overlapping forms of oversight may mitigate the limitations within any one particular governance mechanism.

IMPLEMENTATION OF RELIGIOUS MODERATION IN THE QUR’AN

The case of radicalism in Indonesia is considered unknown until now. The existence of cases of radicalism in Indonesia is very worrying and deserves our collective attention. A way to prevent radicalism can be done through the concept of religious moderation. Religious moderation is a concept for preventing acts of radicalism in Indonesia. Religious moderation is a straight attitude that puts forward proportional values as a role of thinking. The distinction between this research and previous studies is the position of the concept of religious moderation associated with the interpretation of the Qur’an as an implication for the prevention of radicalism in Indonesia meanwhile previous studies only focused on researching the concept of religious moderation about social attitudes of the community and not associated with the interpretation of the Qur’an. This research becomes urgent on how the concept of religious moderation in the Qur’an and its implications for the prevention of radicalism in Indonesia. This research uses a library research method, with relevant sources such as books, journals, theses, and dissertations. The results of this research include intergroup disputes that can be used by certain groups to incite violence, this appears as a cultural product of radicalism in Indonesia. An analysis of the concept of religious moderation in the Qur’an has been identified as a solution to deal with radicalism in Indonesia. This explanation directs each individual to develop an attitude of tolerance, and acceptance of traditions fairly, as well as increasing national commitment, which does not require extremism.

Someone just posted on Instagram: Conspicuous consumption, anticipated engagement, and trait mindfulness

The practice of “flexing,” showing off one’s wealth and status, gradually penetrates daily life on various social media platforms, most notably Instagram. We investigated the extent to which exposure to conspicuous consumption by a stranger stimulated the viewers’ materialistic aspiration and whether this effect could be mediated by anticipated engagement and moderated by trait mindfulness. A large number of Instagram users in Indonesia (N = 2,296, 75.30% female; M age = 31.14 years old, SD age = 7.09) completed the trait mindfulness scale, randomly received a single Instagram photo showcasing luxury material vs. experiential purchase, provided an estimate of the intensity of love and comment from other viewers (i.e., anticipated engagement), and filled out the materialistic aspiration scale. Participants exposed to material purchase reported higher aspiration than those exposed to experiential purchase, but lower anticipated engagements also reduced materialistic aspiration. Participants with higher trait mindfulness were better at distinguishing the effects of conspicuous consumption on anticipated engagement and materialistic aspiration. These findings indicate that the viewers’ anticipation of collective attention could reverse the impact of exposure to conspicuous consumption and the potential of trait mindfulness as an anti-mimetic quality for situational materialism.

Object Detection in Satellite Images with Hierarchical Collective Hunter Algorithm Optimized Ensemble Classifier

Object detection in remote sensing images plays an essential role in computer vision task, which significantly identifies the position and class of the located objects with arbitrary orientation information. Recently, object detection plays an important role in various applications such as Surveillance and security in airports, organizations, and so on. However, target tracking is a very challenging task in natural images to attain appropriate detection results together with they obtain certain issues such as limited availability of high-resolute images, background complexity, and so on. To avoid these limitations, developed a Hierarchical collective Hunter algorithm with a Deep convolutional Neural network and a Bidirectional long short-term classifier (2HC-DBTM) model, which improved the interaction range of feature extraction by reducing the background complexity. Additional attributes mechanism such as the Hierarchical Collective Hunter (HCH) algorithm and hybrid attention mechanism are integrated with the proposed model for improve the ability and performance with minimum computational complexity and achieves better detection accuracy. The experimental results obtained in the evaluation of the model are achieved with high robustness and efficiency when compared with other conventional methods. The achieved performance evaluation of the model for evaluation metric F1-score is 97.71%, precision is 97.16%, recall is 98.27% and accuracy is 98.05%.

Pharmacy-Based Public Health Initiatives

Both the general population's and pharmacists' behavior will need to change in order for pharmacists to become more involved in public health. Numerous studies have demonstrated the significance of attitudes and beliefs as drivers of behavior. In order to determine the most effective ways to support and enhance this service, this review attempts to investigate the attitudes and beliefs that consumers and pharmacists have toward pharmaceutical public health. A major element of many public health programs (PHPs) is the use of medications. The ability of medicines to cure and prevent illness is not the sole reason they are significant. The public's trust in the availability of safe and effective medications as well as the policies assuring their responsible use is inextricably related to their faith in the healthcare system. Nonetheless, the majority of public health initiatives in underdeveloped nations pay little to no attention to the pharmacy services component. The last fifteen years have seen a transformation in pharmacy practice that has increased public health access. A variety of public health services are increasingly offered by community pharmacists, showing potential gains in health outcomes and access. The observed changes in practice draw our attention to systemic problems that still require our collective attention. In order to maximize the impact on public health from this system shift, we must prioritize the pharmacy-public health collaboration and develop cooperative policy and research agendas as we fortify our intersectoral public health system.

Towards an aesthetic commoning

This text detects a current context collapse within the independent scene of dance and choreography. It looks at the political potential of artist-driven spaces and asks if and how they could provide a forum for debate and collective articulation. With the platform and space höjden studios in Stockholm as the main example, the text connects it to other practical initiatives such as PAF (Performing Arts Forum), ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center and PIM (Para Institutional Models). The text briefly touches on theories of the commons and aesthetic autonomy in order to raise a concern about the collective attention to art works and artistic practices, and propose a direction where the production of discourse within common spaces centres it.

On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”

“Muleskinner Blues,” the signature song of bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe, is at once central to the bluegrass canon and yet metrically enigmatic, featuring a flexible timing structure that fluctuated wildly between performances. This article engages in a longitudinal study of 165 performances of “Muleskinner Blues” across Bill Monroe’s career to explore how the musicians that rotated through his band, the Blue Grass Boys, cognitively grappled with the song’s flexible structure. Through a series of analytical vignettes, I will detail the distributed cognitive system that drives performances of “Muleskinner Blues,” giving special attention to musical cues as tools for calling collective attention to structurally important moments of action. Additionally, I show how the song’s flexible meter was weaponized by Monroe in acts of musical hazing, antagonizing his musicians in the high-stakes environment of a live performance. Through these analyses, I show how the song’s peculiar meter centered Monroe musically, structurally, and socially, transforming “Muleskinner Blues” into a potent vehicle for the masculine ideology of the father of bluegrass music.

The seasonal variation of Asian dust, anthropogenic PM, and their sources in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Central Asia's arid climate and growing population make it susceptible to air pollution from mineral dust and anthropogenic sources. To assess the impact of these pollution sources on local air quality, the chemical composition of PM10 aerosol particles was collected within a year at Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Primary sources of the pollutants, their impact on PM10 composition, and their seasonal trends were assessed. The measurement approach employed analysis of trace metals, ions, organic compounds, laboratory investigations, diagnostic ratio calculations, all complemented by positive matrix factor analysis. The results reveal that for about 70% of the year, PM10 levels (80 ± 55 μg m−3 as the annual average) in Dushanbe were higher than the WHO limits, with varying levels during the seasons. Summer concentrations peaked up to 434 μg m−3 due to a combined mineral and road dust influence. Interestingly, winter concentrations reached 152 μg m−3 due to strong contributions (about 64%) from residential heating and fossil fuel combustion, often triggered during sub-10 °C temperatures. Mineral dust events were associated with elevated concentrations of trace metals, including Zn and Pb, alongside organic carbon and high-chain n - alkanes. During such events, Ca/Fe, Ca/Al ratios exceeded those of Saharan dust, suggesting a high salt content in Asian dust, potentially influenced by dried-off lake emissions. It was striking to observe that winter periods exhibited concerning levels of carcinogenic PAHs, such as benzo(b)fluoranthene (<25 ng m−3) and benzo[a]pyrene (<12 ng m−3, BaP), with average values of 4.1 ± 5.9 ng m−3 (BaP) that significantly exceed WHO recommendations. The high PM10 and PAH exposure could pose severe health risks, necessitating collective attention from the local authorities in developing new mitigation strategies concerning the reduction of emissions from residential heating of coal and wood in winter to curb combustion emissions and reduce exposure.

Enacting Decentralized Authority: The Practices and Limits of Moving Beyond Hierarchy

Decentralization as an organizing principle has drawn growing interest from scholars and practitioners because of its perceived suitability for contemporary market conditions and alignment with employees’ evolving work expectations. However, efforts to decentralize authority face significant obstacles and often end in failure. I propose that existing research on decentralization has struggled to generate insight into how such barriers can be overcome because it has treated decentralization as a static outcome imposed by organizational designers. In contrast, this article treats decentralization as a dynamic and situated achievement that must be continually enacted, and it leverages ethnographic data from a decentralization effort in order to build theory on the organizational practices that support enactments of decentralized authority. I find that successful enactments of decentralized authority were supported by practices that established clear boundaries of authority and focused collective attention on these boundaries, as well as by practices that depersonalized collective attributions of the source of authority. At the same time, the practices were difficult to sustain because they were cognitively, emotionally, and temporally demanding. Through this study, I show that decentralization is not merely a one-time structural change but an ongoing collective process that requires navigating and neutralizing the structural and psychological forces pulling organizations back toward hierarchy.

Virtuous Collective Attention

How can a collective pay attention virtuously? Imagine a group of scientists. It matters what topics they pay attention to, that is, which topics they draw to the foreground and take to be relevant, and which they leave in the background. It also matters which aspects of an investigated phenomenon they foreground, and which aspects they leave unnoticed in the background. If we want to understand not only how individuals pay attention of this kind virtuously, but also collectives, we first need a framework to understand virtuous collective agency. A result of this article will be that virtuous collective action depends on the collective being institutionalized. At the same time, we have to think of the constituents of the collective in terms of practical identities (as opposed to individuals). This is what enables us to understand how a collective can acquire the stability required for virtue, and how we don’t end up with a summative account of group virtue, respectively. It will be argued that collectives only have the required stability in their actions when their commitments are habitualized in the form of institutionalized procedures. An Aristotelian understanding of virtue distinguishes between commitment, inclination, and action. Only when a subject’s inclination is fully lined up with her commitment, do we arrive at the required stability (of character) for virtuous action. In the case of individuals, to build up an appropriate inclination consists in an inscribing of the commitment into the feelings and body of the subject. If a commitment is fully ‘embodied’ in this sense, it has formed the individual’s inclination accordingly. How can one make sense of this in the case of collective subjects? This article tries to show that for collectives, the embodiment of commitment (the forming of the fitting inclinations) consists in creating policies, procedures, and rules that stabilize the acting according to the commitment, irrespective of the motivation of each individual involved in the collective. Hence, embodiment of commitment, in the case of collectives, is institutionalization. The article then explores what this requirement of institutionalization means for collective attention. The illustration will draw on a distinction between focused and open-minded attention. It will be shown that for either case – focused and open-minded – in order for a collective to pay attention virtuously, it needs to have its commitments institutionalized.

Membentuk Karakter Anak

This article addresses everyday life issues that need collective attention. Community life cannot be separated from the presence of social and religious values. Both of these values play a significant role in maintaining harmony within society. These values are also essential in shaping the character of children, ensuring their lives are more organized and positive. Character formation through parental education within the family plays a crucial role in instilling social and religious values. Social values instilled in children are derived from prevailing customs and traditions. Social values are established to create a better community life. Meanwhile, religious values are drawn from teachings rich in moral values. Instilling religious values in children can foster positive character traits, as these teachings are based on morals relevant to contemporary life. Nurturing children's character through social and religious values makes them positive individuals who are responsive to issues arising in society.

Opportunities and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence in China's elderly care services

The challenge of elderly care presents a formidable task, demanding the collective attention of governmental bodies and diverse sectors of society. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the research and development of Social Elderly Care Service (ECS) has emerged as a dominant trend, holding substantial importance in the establishment of an efficient ECS system. This study aims to serve as a comprehensive reference for the advancement of China's ECS system, achieved through the harmonious integration of a social ECS system with AI capabilities. This paper introduces the fundamental theory of AI, delving into the intricacies of the greyscale model of AI. Furthermore, it provides an overview of the current landscape of elderly care and elder care institutions, offering scientific data and insights to propel further research on AI development and system construction. Through an analysis of the existing research status, the study identifies prevalent issues within the AI-ECS integration, emphasizing pivotal factors influencing the construction of a robust social ECS system. To address these concerns, the study puts forth specific and viable policy recommendations. Notably, the questionnaire's statistics underscore that 83% of the elderly populace would opt for AI-driven solutions in selecting intelligent products, thereby underscoring the pivotal role of AI within the social ECS system. The challenges facing elderly care systems, including demographic shifts, resource constraints, and evolving societal norms, demand innovative solutions for providing efficient and effective care. This study addresses these challenges by exploring the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Social Elderly Care Services (ECS) in China. By delving into the theory of AI and assessing the existing research status, the study identifies key issues in AI-ECS integration and proposes viable policy recommendations. Insights from stakeholder surveys further highlight the importance of AI-driven solutions in meeting the needs of the elderly population.

Persistence of collective memory of corporate bankruptcy events discussed on X (Twitter) is influenced by pre-bankruptcy public attention

Collective attention and memory involving significant events can be quantitatively studied via social media data. Previous studies analyzed user attention to discrete events that do not change post-event, and assume universal public attention patterns. However, dynamic events with ongoing updates are common, yielding varied individual attention patterns. We explore memory of U.S. companies filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy and being mentioned on X (formerly Twitter). Unlike discrete events, Chapter 11 entails ongoing financial changes as the company typically remains operational, influencing post-event attention dynamics. We collected 248,936 X mentions for 74 companies before and after each bankruptcy. Attention surged after bankruptcy, with distinct Low and High persistence levels compared with pre-bankruptcy attention. The two tweeting patterns were modeled using biexponential models, successfully predicting (F1-score: 0.81) post-bankruptcy attention persistence. Studying bankruptcy events on social media reveals diverse attention patterns, demonstrates how pre-bankruptcy attention affects post-bankruptcy recollection, and provides insights into memory of dynamic events.

PREFACE: The 6th International Conference in The Era of Uncertainty (ICPEU)

The honourable Vice Dean of General Affairs at Faculty of Engineering: Ir. Ismu Rini Dwi Ari, MT., Ph.D, Department Head of Regional and Urban Planning, Dr. Eng. I Nyoman Suluh Wijaya, ST., MT., the honourable keynote speakers – Dr. Joe Ravetz from University of Manchester – United Kingdom, Dr. Hebe Verrest from the Universiteit van Amsterdam – Netherlands, Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi drom Kyoto University – Japan, Le Minh NGO, Ph.D from Ton Duc Thang University – Vietnam, Gunawan Prayitno from Universitas Brawijaya – Indonesia, and ladies and gentlemen.Assalamualaikum Wr Wb,I would like to thank everyone in this room today for your enthusiasm and participation in the 6th International Conference on Planning in the Era of Uncertainty at Universitas Brawijaya.ICPEU is a biennial event that we have organized since 2013. We have focused on the discussion of sustainable development since the very beginning, as we truly believe that this topic is very relevant to what we, in the field of planning, face at the moment and in the future.In 2013 we started off the discussion with the big question, does planning theory can be applied thoroughly in practice? It was a very memorable discussion as we explored many interdisciplinary problems and solutions in planning. We then developed our topic to sustainable development in 2015 as we considered this as an underlying topic for all relevant problems and solutions. Again, the discussion was remarkable. Papers from different countries participated at the event. In 2017, we started publishing our papers on IOP Proceedings, which is a Scopus-indexed form of publication. We published 67 papers from different universities in different countries. And we believe that this event at this moment, will be more successful than our predecessors. The topic In the Repertoire of Desa, Kutha, and the Conversation in Between is yet another situation that we all can relate to. A problem that requires collective attention to achieve equality and sustainability in the future development of village and city.Looking back at the events that we have organized so far, we learned that the pursuit of achieving sustainability has attracted ever-growing global interest. We have received papers from South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Indonesia discussing and showcasing multi-level efforts in achieving sustainable development from different perspectives. In short, the response that we received has been overwhelmingly positive.I would like to thank our dearly sponsors, Universitas Brawijaya, the Faculty of Engineering, BRI, PLN, PT. SMI, By.U, and Linggar Prabangka for their support that have allowed us to organize this event. We received a number of 82 extended abstracts for this event, and unfortunately, we could only accept a number of 51 selected ones to be published on our upcoming IOP Publishing, Evergreen, IJPD UNDIP, JSED WIDYAGAMA, TATALOKA UNDIP, REGION UNS, TAKODA UB, CIVENSE UB, and ISBN Proceeding. Therefore, I would like to congratulate all authors that have made it this far.To close this speech, I would like to once again welcome you to Malang, I wish you a wonderful two-day seminar, and I look forward to learning new insights. Thank you very much.Wassalamualaikum Wr Wb.List of Committees are available in this pdf.