Social Interaction Management Research Articles

Involving religious organizations in improving TB medication adherence

BackgroundHealth is a state of health, both physically, mentally, spiritually, and socially that allows everyone to live a productive life socially and economically. Pulmonary tuberculosis is a global health problem that could impact on productivity and quality of life. The number of TB cases in Indonesia According to WHO, there are an estimated 1,020,000 new TB cases per year (399 per 100,000 population) with 100,000 deaths per year (41 per 100,000 population). Pulmonary tuberculosis is a global health problem that can impact productivity and quality of life. The persistence of family support in improving the compliance of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in taking medication is the key to the success of tuberculosis treatment. AimsThis study aims to determine the involvement of religious organizations in supporting tuberculosis patients to improve treatment adherence. MethodsThis research is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. Data were collected using in-depth interviews and then analyzed by content analysis. The informants in this study consisted of 8 participants. ResultThe results of this study found three themes, namely Understanding TB treatment, Socialinteraction management, and Socialsupport. ConclusionsIt was concluded that the support of religious organizations during the patient’s treatment can increase the patient’s compliance to take medicine regularly and make regular controls/visits. It is also recommended that families encourage patients to continue to participate in religious activities while still complying with health procedures.

The Duty to Transform: Properly Refining the Body and (Re)defining Oneself in Thailand

ABSTRACT Current analyses of Asian cosmetic surgery and other beautification practices assess their use for economic gain (e.g., increasing chances of gaining employment when photos are required with applications) or improving one’s luck (e.g., removing features that are likely to make one’s life more difficult). However, my research in Thailand details broader concerns about being riap-roi (neat, orderly, completed and properly groomed). That is, rather than being merely “cosmetic”, these transformations address broad moral concerns about face, expressing appropriate social status, and the management of social interactions. Additionally, these body practices are also increasingly keyed to Korean and Japanese beauty ideals. The desire to look “white Asian” seeks to mould the self and the Thai nation in the context of a newly regionalised and racialised developed East Asia.

MANAGING SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE MEDIA SPACE

The article presents an attempt to operationalize the concept of «managing social interaction in the media space», which is relevant today, but does not yet have a generally accepted interpretation in the scientific world. The specifics of social interaction are primarily represented by the communication component, but are not limited to this factor alone. The procedural nature of social interaction makes it possible to talk about the possibility of managing it, and, therefore, a meaningful approach to regulating communication models in the modern media space. To determine the goals and objectives of the social interaction management system in the media space, it is advisable to use a tiered approach, where the state in the process of managing social interaction in the media space acts as a determining entity, this is a mega-level; at the macro level, this role is performed by the professional community of the mass media; at the micro level, the determining entity is the management of a single editorial office. The individual acts as a defining subject at the micro and macro levels. In this regard, the purpose and objectives of the management system of social interaction processes in the media space can be presented to the relevant determining level. Tasks of the management system of social interaction processes in the media space at the mega-level: development of terminology; introduction of overdue proposals to the Law of the Russian Federation «On Mass Media», official regulation of both innovative processes in the field of media, and relevant changes in secondary and higher professional education for the training of specialists of convergent type editorial offices. It should be borne in mind such a specific characteristic of social interaction as professional convergence, which is an actual trend of the modern media space. The merging of journalism, advertising and PR into a single activity leads to the emergence of many new forms of interaction with the audience, in which the communication aspect comes first. The consumer, having the ability to instantly respond to any information message, becomes a significant actor in the communication process. «Citizen (people’s) journalists», caring people who own communication technologies, expressing their point of view in the public space, contribute to the emergence of a new type of communication activity: attracting famous people as opinion leaders, which actualizes the activity of the audience. The analysis of various points of view made it possible to formulate the term «Management of social interaction in the media space» and identify the key features of the functional of this activity and conclude that further research of this phenomenon is necessary due to the multi-vector nature of its manifestation and the need for a significant update of the foundations of the existing managerial nature.

Востребованные управленческие компетенции: сравнительный анализ эксклавного региона и столицы,

In a post-industrial society, social processes are dynamic, complex, and diverse. Social interaction management is turning into a competency in its own right. This competency is shaped by many factors, which are affected by the institutional setup as well as the individual features and localisation of the subject and object of management. Investigating and developing the managerial competencies that are necessary for the successful operation of society is a major trend in contemporary science. Studies in the area require an interdisciplinary approach. The aim of this research is to identify the managerial competencies that are crucial for the adequate and stable functioning of regional administration systems. An analysis of the components of managerial competencies and their factors is carried out to identify their status in the centre of an exclave region (Kaliningrad) and in Moscow. The study draws on the authors’ frame-based methodology (Rospatent No. 2012660535), which makes it possible to obtain objective empirical information on competency factors and their types. Sought-after competencies and their indicative structures were identified for each region. The findings are not only of theoretical importance but are well adapted for practical purposes, particularly, for advanced training of managers and teaching related university disciplines.

Enhancing Social Interactions at Conferences

Abstract Conferator is a novel social conference system that provides the management of social interactions and context information in ubiquitous and social environments. Using RFID and social networking technology, Conferator provides the means for effective management of personal contacts and according conference information before, during and after a conference. We describe the system in detail, before we analyze and discuss results of a typical application of the Conferator system.

The Firm's Management of Social Interactions

Consumer choice is influenced in a direct and meaningful way by the actions taken by others. These “actions” range from face-to-face recommendations from a friend to the passive observation of what a stranger is wearing. We refer to the set of such contexts as “social interactions” (SI). We believe that at least some of the SI effects are partially within the firm’s control and that this represents an exciting research opportunity. We present an agenda that identifies a list of unanswered questions of potential interest to both researchers and managers. In order to appreciate the firm’s choices with respect to its management of SI, it is important to first evaluate where we are in terms of understanding the phenomena themselves. We highlight five questions in this regard: (1) What are the antecedents of word of mouth (WOM)? (2) How does the transmission of positive WOM differ from that of negative WOM? (3) How does online WOM differ from offline WOM? (4) What is the impact of WOM? (5) How can we measure WOM? Finally, we identify and discuss four principal, non-mutually exclusive, roles

Three semiotic layers of spoken communication

My background as a phonetician has been more in speech production than perception, but it is never fully possible to deal with one without continually referring to the other. The papers in this volume by Coleman (2003) and Hawkins (2003) fit closely with the related one on phonetics by Local (2003), also in this volume; so I make reference to all the three, as I discuss what I see to be the necessary embedding of the study of the perception of spoken language in the wider study of interactional communication. I take the metatheoretical view that the constructs of linguistic and phonetic theory which propose analytic categories are convenient fictions, whose convenience for the given purpose temporarily outweighs the evident distortion of the artificiality they introduce. The risk is that one progressively forgets about the distortion associated with these basic categories, and the temporary distortion becomes a habitual conceptual straitjacket. Happily, the disadvantage of this artificiality normally grows, ultimately, to the point where the convenience of the original constructs is realized as no longer profitable. Revision ensues, and a new (temporarily more satisfactory) set of fictions is proposed. Thus science moves forward, and we have probably now reached the point where it is desirable to move beyond local, punctual, short-domain evidence in speech routinely to consider longer-domain and more detailed phenomena for their relevance to both production and perception. In this commentary, I leave aside the very distributed nature of phonetic information about the identity of linguistic units such as individual phonemes, taking it for granted that Hawkins, Coleman and Local have all demonstrated this beyond challenge. I note in passing, however, that the long anticipation of some types of speech sounds demonstrated in these three excellent papers will bring into re-examination some of the conclusions on self-monitoring for speech errors. The rest of my comments concentrate on the need to set the study of the perception of spoken language in a wider context. I feel very sympathetic to Local’s (2003) position when he says that ‘‘Spoken language is a resource which is systematically deployed in the management of social interaction, its primary site ARTICLE IN PRESS

Variable domains and variable relevance: interpreting phonetic exponents

Spoken language is a resource which is systematically deployed in the management of social interaction, its primary site of occurrence. The patterns and structures in language are emergent properties of, and shaped by, the contingencies and demands of social interaction. However, despite significant advances in modeling speech perception and understanding, and an increasing acknowledgment of the relevance of phonetic detail, there continues to be an overemphasis on issues of lexical distinctiveness and lexical access with the consequence that many kinds of systematically-controlled fine phonetic detail do not find their way into contemporary models. I argue that it is now timely to think more carefully about what it means to talk about linguistic–phonological contrast and distinctiveness and the relevance of phonetic detail. I argue that: i. Lexical contrast is overvalued in speech perception and understanding; ii. It is time to examine more closely the phonetic detail of talk-in-interaction; iii. Particular phonetic details and phonetic variability are associated with particular interactional, grammatical and lexical systems and that this ‘context-embeddedness’ is both useful for and used in speech understanding.

Facial disfigurement: Problems and management of social interaction and implications for mental health

The concern of this article is with the impact of facial disfigurement on social interaction during brief encounters, the ramifications of which have the potential for psychological and social destruction. Largely ignored by those interested in the social and psychological problems and rehabilitation of the functionally impaired, such as the blind, the deaf, the amputee, the intent here is to point up the major problems associated with facial disfigurement and to explore some of the ways of dealing with them. The data on which this article is based were collected over many years and are no longer new, but this attempt to synthesize them for a particular purpose is.