Internet Chat Rooms Research Articles

Incorporating Machine Learning Strategies to Smart Gloves Enabled by Dual-Network Hydrogels for Multitask Control and User Identification.

Smart gloves are often used in human-computer interaction scenarios due to their portability and ease of integration. However, their application in the field of information security has been less studied. Herein, we propose a smart glove using an iontronic capacitive sensor with significant pressure-sensing performance. Besides, an operator interface has been developed to match the smart glove, which is capable of multitasking integration of mouse movement, music playback, game control, and message typing in Internet chat rooms by capturing and encoding finger-tapping movements. In addition, by integrating machine learning, we can mine the characteristics of individual behavioral habits contained in the sensor signals and, based on this, achieve a deep binding of the user to the smart glove. The proposed smart glove can greatly facilitate people's lives, as well as explore a new strategy in research on the application of smart gloves in data security.

A Hybrid Model for Sentiment Analysis Based on Movie Review Datasets

The classification of sentiments, often known as sentiment analysis, is now widely recognized as an open field of research. Over the past few years, a huge amount of study work has been carried out in these disciplines by utilizing a wide variety of research approaches. Due to the possibility that the performance of sentiment analysis may be impacted by the high-dimensional feature set, text mining demands careful consideration during in the construction and selection of features.The process of recognising and extracting subjective information from written data is referred to as sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis enables companies to understand the social sentiment around their brand, product, or service by monitoring the conversations that take place in internet chat rooms. In order to categorise people's attitudes or sentiments, this study provides a hybrid model (Support Vector Machine, Convolutional Neural Network, and Long Short-Term Memory). The findings of using the network model to sentiment analysis on the movie review or amazon review datasets reveal that it is possible to gain a good classification impact by using the model. The preprocessing is used for text mining, the removal of punctuation, and the generation of vocabulary, also uses GLOVE for vectorization and TF-IDF algorithms for better feature extraction. The results that were proposed were compared with various base models such as KNN, and MNB, amongst others, which demonstrates that the hybrid model performs better than other models.

Udah Cebol, Bantet Pula Aku: Lexical Cohesion on Body Shaming in IbuHamil.com Discussion Forum

Women contribute almost half of the total internet users in Indonesia and millennial mothers are a significant group of internet users, especially social media. This makes the millennial mother group vulnerable to crime in the digital space. One form of crime is body shaming which is part of mom-shaming. In this study, we investigate body shaming from the perspective of Discourse Analysis using Halliday and Hasan's classification on lexical cohesion. We focus on three categories in lexical cohesion, which are repetition, synonymy, and antonymy to illustrate lexical cohesion in IbuHamil.com’s discussion forum. Body shaming discussed in the article sources from a thread in Ngobrol Apa Saja forum in IbuHamil.com. The thread discussing body shaming experience receives 37 responses in 18 days. In terms of lexical cohesion, the data display 300 words in repetition with 28 inflected words, 38 words in synonymy, and 16 words in antonymy. There are some typical words in illustrating physical features in body shaming, which mainly highlight weight, height, and attempts to achieve an ideal body mass index. The discussion forum also demonstrates the frequent use of contraction which characterizes the internet chat room communication. Additionally, users' responses express empathy and support to the topic starter. The users also propose advice on handling body shaming and how to avoid it in the future.

Vaccination Rates, Perceptions, and Information Sources Used by People With Inflammatory Arthritis.

To determine vaccination rates, perceptions, and information sources in people with inflammatory arthritis. Participants enrolled in the Australian Rheumatology Association Database were invited to participate in an online questionnaire, conducted in January 2020, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Included questions were about vaccination history, modified World Health Organization Vaccination Hesitancy Scale, views of the information sources consulted, the Beliefs About Medicines Questionnaire, education, and the Single-Item Health Literacy Screener. Response rate was 994 of 1498 (66%). The median age of participants was 62 years, with 67% female. Self-reported adherence was 83% for the influenza vaccine. Participants generally expressed positive vaccination views, particularly regarding safety, efficacy, and access. However, only 43% knew which vaccines were recommended for them. Vaccine hesitancy was primarily attributable to uncertainty and a perceived lack of information about which vaccines were recommended. Participants consulted multiple vaccination information sources (median 3, interquartile range 2-7). General practitioners (89%) and rheumatologists (76%) were the most frequently used information sources and were most likely to yield positive views. Negative views of vaccination were most often from internet chatrooms, social media, and mainstream media. Factors of younger age, male gender, and having more concerns about the harms and overuse of medicines in general were associated with lower adherence and greater uncertainty about vaccinations, whereas education and self-reported literacy were not. Participants with inflammatory arthritis generally held positive views about vaccination, although there was considerable uncertainty as to which vaccinations were recommended for them. This study highlights the need for improved consumer information about vaccination recommendations for people with inflammatory arthritis.

How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe

How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe

The Impact of the Digital Age and Social Media on Connecting the Clubfoot Community.

BackgroundInternet chat rooms played an important role in the late 1990s promoting the Ponseti method as the preferred initial treatment for congenital clubfoot. The social media boom has created multiple new methods for caregivers to seek support from a global community using a variety of platforms that are now easily available. This study assesses the reach of information shared across social media platforms about congenital clubfoot and analyzes topics most commonly discussed among members in these groups.MethodologyPosts and pages across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok were evaluated to identify the top clubfoot-related hashtags and accounts. In addition, content themes were analyzed for posts across all platforms.ResultsThere were 122 clubfoot-focused Facebook groups for parent support, and the five Facebook groups with the highest number of posts during the study period were found to frequently discuss the following topics: successful treatment stories, questions about casting, bracing, relapse, and commercial items compatible with clubfoot treatment. Twitter pages contained information about live webinars, educational resources for parents and providers, and the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on clubfoot treatment. A search across visual platforms using “#clubfoot” yielded over 59,000 cumulative posts on Instagram and over 34.7 million total views on TikTok.ConclusionsParents of clubfoot patients are increasingly connecting through digital social media platforms, relying on them for information on clubfoot, and utilizing them as a network for social support. Clubfoot physicians should be aware of this content on social media to promote education and discussion that addresses parent concerns, provides accurate information, and guides expectations.

Constructing the understanding of teenagers deviant use of cyberspace

Cyberspace provides a completely different platform for the expression of one’s needs in comparison to the face-to-face world. The use of cyberspace by teenagers is becoming a major concern due to the emergence of engagement in deviant use of internet applications inclusive of engagement in sexting; excessive and addictive use of the internet, consumption of pornography, and as well as phenomena of internet chat rooms. The online disinhibition, anonymity, personality factors, sensation-seeking behavior, impulsivity, deviant socialization processes, and absence of social systems to educate adolescents about gender sensitivity and sex appear to predispose teenagers for indulgence in deviant usage of cyberspace. There is an urgent need to understand the factors related to deviant use of cyberspace and for offering programs for parents and adolescents on gender sensitivity, sexuality, sex, consent in relationships, and deviant use of internet applications. Such initiatives will help to offer opportunities for a corrective experience through appropriate socialization experiences and enhance cyberliteracy among children and adolescents.

Adolescent girls’ physiological reactivity to real-world peer feedback: A pilot study to validate a Peer Expressed Emotion task

Peer feedback becomes highly salient during adolescence, especially for girls. The way in which adolescents react to social feedback is associated with psychosocial adjustment and mental health. Consequently, researchers are increasingly interested in understanding the physiological and neural underpinnings of adolescent response to feedback by simulating the experience of rejection and acceptance using computer-based paradigms. However, these paradigms typically use nonfamiliar peers and the facade of internet chatrooms or games to present artificial peer feedback. The current study piloted the use of a novel and potentially more ecologically valid peer expressed emotion paradigm in which participants listen to prerecorded clips of ostensible personalized feedback made by their close friend. Physiological data measuring autonomic nervous system response were collected as an index of emotional reactivity/arousal and cognitive-affective processing. Results show promising preliminary evidence validating the task for future use. Participants (N = 18 girls, aged 11–17 years) reported feeling more positive following praise, relative to critical and neutral feedback, and reported feeling more upset following criticism, relative to praise and neutral feedback. Girls exhibited greater pupillary dilation, skin conductance levels (N = 17), and/or heart rate (N = 17) while listening to affectively charged, peer feedback compared with neutral yet personally relevant statements. Girls also exhibited variable physiological response when listening to praising versus critical feedback. Findings from this pilot study validate the use of this novel Peer Expressed Emotion task for the investigation of adolescents’ emotional and physiological reactivity in response to real-world peer evaluation. However, it is important to recognize that this study provides only preliminary findings and that future research is needed to replicate the results in larger samples.

Selection and perception of methotrexate treatment information in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

To determine beliefs about methotrexate (MTX) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in relation to utilized information sources. RA patients, who were current participants in the Australian national biologic registry, completed an online questionnaire regarding their use and views about MTX (N=1010). Participants who used MTX were asked about which MTX information sources they consulted, and whether positive or negative views were obtained. The Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire (BMQ), was used to measure patient beliefs about MTX. The survey response rate was 804/1010 (80%). MTX survey data were analyzed for 742 RA participants (mean age 59years, 76% female, mean disease duration 19years) who had used MTX, with 494/742 (67%) reporting current use. Participants consulted multiple information sources (median 3, interquartile range 1-5). Rheumatologists (98%), general practitioners (GPs) (55%), internet searches (39%), educational websites (38%), and pharmacists (37%) were the most common information sources utilized. Positive MTX information was most often obtained from rheumatologists (92%), GPs (66%), and educational websites (56%). Negative information was most often obtained from relatives, social media, internet chat rooms and friends. Information from rheumatologists was the most influential on favorable BMQ MTX-specific scores, whereas information from educational websites also affirmed the need for MTX. RA patients have significant concerns regarding MTX and consult a variety of sources for MTX information. However, the patient perception of this information varies widely. Rheumatologists and educational websites are the most important information sources in terms of a positive influence on the patient's perception of MTX.

Muzi Mei – Internet celebrity and pioneer of ‘body writing’

ABSTRACT Muzi Mei (b. 1978), is one of China’s best-known first generation Internet celebrities. Due to her bold and graphic confession of sexual encounters with different men, including commoners and celebrities alike, published on her blog back in 2003, Muzi Mei became both famous and notorious overnight. After graduating from university in 2001, she first worked as a magazine editor and then became a freelance writer. Since the release of her erotic diaries, she has become the topic of intense debate and has attracted enormous attention from media outlets both in print and on-line, from inside and outside mainland China. Her anecdotes about her experiences and the controversy they have stimulated circulated on bulletin boards and Internet chatrooms across China, and featured in reports and articles in the New York Times, Washington Post and Time magazine, thus marking the Muzi Mei phenomenon as a key signifier of contemporary China’s sexual revolution.

The Nativist Backlash: Exploring the Roots of the Action Conservative Movement

After decades of decline, the sudden emergence from about 2006 of a new style of hard-right organization has greatly changed the landscape of rightist politics in Japan. In Japan, this is referred to as the Action Conservative Movement (ACM), or Kōdō Hoshu Undō. ACM groups have a strong nativist streak, and are known for their use of hate speech against foreigners in general and Koreans in particular. This paper, the first in a collection of four, sketches in the historical, social and political background against which the ACM has arisen. It covers the development of Japan’s ethnic minorities, with particular reference to the Zainichi Koreans, Japan’s largest and longest-standing ethnic minority, whose so-called ‘special privileges’ are a particular target of the ACM. It shows how a gradual liberalization of the treatment of foreigners in Japan has gone hand-in-hand with a strengthening emphasis on patriotism under successive administrations. This apparent paradox of governance, along with the spread of internet chatrooms and live streaming of political demonstrations, are the main factors identified in the rise of the ACM.

Eyes on the Prize

This article emphasizes on the role and the importance of engineering competitive events for engineering students. More and more universities are encouraging competitions and integrating them with course curricula. This is because hands-on, competitive engineering lets students do what they came to school to do: innovate and build. In surveys and on internet chatrooms, students complain about the drudgery of learning engineering fundamentals. They learn the same concepts in a competition, but applying them to real challenges makes all the difference. Through competitions, students are fusing together disciplines to navigate a faster and more interconnected future. They are learning to rise to technical challenges, and discovering how to turn people with different skills into an effective team. They have helped commercialize manned spaceflight, launch the autonomous car revolution, design fuel-miser sports cars, and plumb the ocean depths. They are developing new combinations of skills, and laying the foundations for modern technologies and start-ups.

Group size and personalization’s effect on Facebook message response rates

PurposeThe bystander effect is one of the most well researched and replicated phenomena in social psychology. It repeatedly shows that the presence of other people inhibits the impulse to help due to the concept of diffusion of responsibility. Recently, researchers have studied this phenomenon online in the context of e-mails, internet chat rooms, and discussion forums. The results provide evidence that the presence of “virtual” others decreases the likelihood of helping behavior. Personalization is another factor that strongly influences helping behavior. Referring to a person by name when soliciting help request increases the likelihood of receiving assistance. Yet, with the most popular activity on the internet now being social media, it would be beneficial to know if diffusion of responsibility and personalization also occurs in this part of the online world. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachTo investigate the validity of diffusion of responsibility as well as personalization in a social media context, 176 participants sent out one private Facebook message soliciting help in the form of an online survey to one, three, six, or nine of their Facebook friends. They greeted their friend(s) by name or just said “Hi” or “Hi all.”FindingsResponses to the survey provided strong support for personalizing the greeting, but did not support the theory of diffusion of responsibility.Practical implicationsThis study has many practical implications. For one, with social media being used not only by individuals but by businesses and industries, it is important to know the most effective way in eliciting help and responses from individuals. It is also beneficial for researchers as well who are increasingly using social media as a recruitment tool to find participants. This study suggests that personalizing salutations is an effective way of eliciting more responses and raises important research questions about the validity of diffusion of responsibility in online environments.Originality/valueThis study also has originality and value in that it provides a start for understanding helping behavior in a social media environment as well as applying relevant social psychological theories to online behavior. It highlights the similarities as well as differences between offline and online human behavior as well as highlights the importance of personalization in online requests.

Bystander cricothyroidotomy with household devices – A fresh cadaveric feasibility study

IntroductionIn various motion pictures, medical TV shows and internet chatrooms, non-medical devices were presented as tools for life-saving cricothyroidotomies. However, there is uncertainty about whether it is possible for a bystander to perform a cricothyroidotomy and maintain gas exchange using improvised household items. This study examines the ability of bystanders to carry out an emergency cricothyroidotomy in fresh human cadavers using only a pocket knife and a ballpoint pen. Materials and methodsTwo commonly available pens and five different pocket knives were used. Ten participants with no or only basic anatomical knowledge had to choose one of the pens and one of the knives and were asked to perform a cricothyroidotomy as quickly as possible after a short introduction. Primary successful outcome was a correct placement of the pen barrel and was determined by the thoracic lifting in a mouth-to-pen resuscitation. ResultsEight (80%) participants performed a successful approach to the upper airway with a thoracic lifting at the end. Five participants performed a cricothyroidotomy and three performed an unintentional tracheotomy. Injuries to muscles and cartilage were common, but no major vascular damage was seen in the post-procedural autopsy. However, mean time in the successful group was 243s. ConclusionIn this cadaveric model, bystanders with variable medical knowledge were able to establish an emergency cricothyroidotomy in 80% of the cases only using a pocketknife and a ballpoint pen. No major complications (particularly injuries of arterial blood vessels or the oesophagus) occurred. Although a pocket knife and ballpoint pen cricothyroidotomy seem a very extreme procedure for a bystander, the results of our study suggest that it is a feasible option in an extreme scenario. For a better outcome, the anatomical landmarks of the neck and the incision techniques should be taught in emergency courses.

Adolescent Susceptibility to Peer Influence in Sexual Situations

PurposeOne consistent predictor of adolescents' engagement in sexual risk behavior is their belief that peers are engaging in similar behavior; however, not all youth are equally susceptible to these peer influence effects. Understanding individual differences in susceptibility to peer influence is critical to identifying adolescents at risk for negative health outcomes. The purpose of this project was to identify predictors of susceptibility to peer influence using a novel performance-based measure of sexual risk taking. MethodsParticipants were 300 early adolescents (Mage = 12.6 years; 53% female; 44% Caucasian) who completed (1) a pretest assessment of demographics, sexual attitudes, and hypothetical scenarios measuring the likelihood of engaging in sexual risk behavior and (2) a subsequent experimental procedure that simulated an Internet chat room in which youth believed that they were communicating with peers regarding these same hypothetical scenarios. In reality, these “peers” were computer-programmed e-confederates. Changes in responses to the sexual scenarios in the private pretest versus during the public chat room provided a performance-based measure of peer influence susceptibility. ResultsIn total, 78% of youth provided more risky responses in the chat room than those in pretest. The most robust predictor of this change was gender, with boys significantly more susceptible to peer influence than girls. Significant interactions also were noted, with greater susceptibility among boys with later pubertal development and African-American boys. ConclusionsResults confirm that not all youth are equally susceptible to peer influence. Consistent with sexual script theory, boys evidence greater susceptibility to social pressure regarding sexual behavior than girls.

Beyond Representation and Simulation: Surviving the Age of Mediation and Its Failure in Kim Young-ha’s Quiz Show

Abstract This article examines how the melancholic tradition of Korean literature takes a new turn toward epistemological disillusionment through Kim Young-ha’s (Kim Yŏngha) novel K’wijǔ syo (Quiz show, 2007). On the rapidly shifting horizons of unprecedented stability and prosperity, while exposed to the alienating effects of the newly emergent media-driven society where the meaning of community becomes fragmented and obscured behind scintillating screens clamoring with masked identities, writers of this era and thereon faced the double-bind of an ironic grief over the “loss of a shared sense of loss (beloved values)” that upheld the realist tradition, such as sovereignty, political integrity, and economic stability. Focusing on the gaps and overlaps between the representative functions of conventional media such as film, and the disconcertingly visceral incarnations of human desire and fallacy we see in the simulacra of new media platforms including cellphone texts and Internet chat rooms, this article suggests that Quiz Show responds to this challenge by highlighting the impossibility of “knowing,” whether the subject is one’s own self, institutional values, or even the very fabrics of reality. Reading the protagonists misadventures through tortuous passages of failed communication, representation, and simulation of new ideals, I discuss the story as a reflection on the identity crisis Korea’s younger generations were wading through amid the material abundance and ideological void in the 1990s. The spectral fragments of electronically mediated interaction we see throughout the novel, I claim, is an inquiry into what one may be, or even how one cannot be anyone at all, in a society where nothing can be safely identified or identified with anymore.

Associations between adult attachment style and mental health care utilization: Findings from a large-scale national survey

This study investigated the association between attachment style and the use of a range of mental health services controlling socio-demographic, physical and psychological risk factors. Using a large nationally representative sample from the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), a total of 5645 participants (18+) were included. The majority of participants reported their attachment as secure (63.5%), followed by avoidant (22.2%), unclassified (8.8%), and anxious (5.5%). The percentages using different health services studied varied widely (1.1–31.1%). People with insecure (anxious and avoidant) attachment were more likely to report accessing a hotline, having had a session of psychological counselling or therapy, getting a prescription or medicine for mental and behavioural problems. Individuals with anxious attachment only were also more likely to report the use of internet support groups or chat rooms. This is a first analysis to explore relationships between self-reported adult attachment style and a wide range of health care services. Insecurely attached individuals were more likely to use a wide range of health care services even after controlling for socio-demographic factors, psychiatric disorders and chronic health conditions. These findings suggest that adult attachment plays an important role in the use of mental health care services.

The Use of Internet Chat Rooms to Meet Sexual Partners: A Comparison of Non-Heterosexually Identified Men with Heterosexually Identified Men and Women

ABSTRACT. Objectives: Prior work suggests that many individuals use the Internet to meet romantic or sexual partners. Our intent was to explore perceptions and experiences with meeting people online. Methods: In 2008, the authors conducted U.S.-based online interviews with 65 predominantly White, self-identified heterosexual men and women and gay/bisexual men (Mean age = 30.8 years). Results: Reasons for meeting people online, desired partner characteristics, and the process of connecting for sex paralleled those observed in face-to-face contexts. People used Internet chat rooms to identify more partners and specific partner characteristics. “Background checks” of online partners, though often believed to be inaccurate, increased familiarity and trust leading to reduced condom use. Participants said online condom use negotiation was easier but usually occurred in face-to-face contexts.Conclusions: The fundamental processes of meeting partners online are similar in many ways to meeting partners face-to-face; however, the Internet facilitates rapid access to relatively large numbers of potential partners.

Predictors of unwanted exposure to online pornography and online sexual solicitation of youth.

This study examined factors associated with the unwanted exposure to online pornography and unwanted online sexual solicitation victimization and perpetration of youth in Taiwan. A total of 2315 students from 26 high schools were assessed in the 10th grade, with follow-up performed in the 11th grade. Self-administered questionnaires were collected. Multivariate analysis results indicated that higher levels of online game use, pornography media exposure, Internet risk behaviors, depression, and cyberbullying experiences predicted online sexual solicitation victimization, while higher levels of Internet chat room use, pornography media exposure, Internet risk behaviors, cyberbullying experiences, and offline sexual harassment predicted online sexual solicitation perpetration.

An emotional signature of political ideology: Evidence from two linguistic content-coding studies

Approach–avoidance frameworks for political ideology have been proposed with increasing frequency. Following such frameworks and a wider motivation–emotion literature, it was hypothesized that political ideology would be predictive of the extent to which anxiety (avoidance-related) versus anger (approach-related) words would be evident in written texts. Study 1 sampled user-generated text within conservative versus liberal Internet chat rooms. After correcting for the greater normative frequency of anger words, a crossover ideology by emotion type interaction was found. Study 2 found a parallel interaction among college students writing about a non-political topic. Political ideology thus has a discrete emotional signature, one favoring anxiety among conservatives and anger among liberals.