Role Of Social Dynamics Research Articles

Social media and privacy concerns: exploring university student’s privacy concerns in TikTok platform in Vietnam

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the extent of personal privacy concerns expressed by university students in Vietnam while using TikTok, the influence of peer interactions and social norms on privacy attitudes and behaviors and the strategies used by university students in Vietnam to mitigate privacy risks on TikTok.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews was used to gather data on the following: the degree to which Vietnamese university students express concerns about their personal privacy while using TikTok; how peer interactions and social norms influence privacy attitudes and behaviors; and the strategies these students use to mitigate privacy risks on the platform.FindingsFindings indicate that although university students exhibit a relatively low level of concern regarding their personal privacy on TikTok, peer influences and societal norms significantly shape their attitudes and behaviors on the platform. Moreover, students use several strategies to mitigate privacy risks, such as selective content sharing and refraining from engaging with unknown links.Practical implicationsThese insights provide valuable implications for the development of targeted interventions and educational initiatives aimed at fostering a more privacy-conscious TikTok user community among university students in Vietnam.Originality/valueThis research fills a critical gap in the existing literature by focusing on the influence of social norms and peer influences on privacy attitudes and behaviors on social media platforms. While prior studies have explored various factors impacting privacy concerns on social media, the role of social dynamics has been understudied. Moreover, the research specifically addresses the lack of investigation into privacy concerns on TikTok, a platform rapidly gaining popularity among younger demographics.

Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy

Entrepreneurial energy, the level of energetic activation that a founder feels for building their venture, is an important indicator of a founder’s well-being. Changes in entrepreneurial energy have wide-ranging consequences for both founders and their ventures, yet much remains to be learned about how and why such fluctuations might occur, as well as the role of social dynamics in influencing fluctuations in entrepreneurial energy. To investigate these questions, we draw on longitudinal data from 38 founders, developing a dynamic model of entrepreneurial energy. Our study contributes to research on entrepreneurial energy and well-being, as well as energetic activation more generally.

Socioecological factors influencing intraspecific variation in ranging dynamics of western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Ndoki Forest.

Ranging dynamics are physical and behavioral representations of how different socioecological factors affect an organism's spatial decisions and space use strategies. Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) are a model species to investigate the drivers of spatial dynamics based on both the natural variation in socioecological factors within the species and compared with their mountain gorilla counterparts. In this study, we evaluate the influences of resource seasonality and social dynamics on variation in home range size, utilization, and intergroup overlap among multiple gorilla groups over an 8-year study period in the northern Republic of Congo. This study shows that western lowland gorillas can have small home ranges comparable to mountain gorillas, rather than universally larger home ranges as previously supposed, and that home ranges are stable through time. The largest source of variation in space use was the degree of intergroup home range overlap. The study groups did not demonstrate intraspecific variation in range size nor changes in intergroup overlap with respect to seasonality of fruit resources, but all groups demonstrated expansion of monthly range and core area with group size, matching predictions of intragroup feeding competition. These findings highlight the potential impact of intergroup relationships on space use and prompt further research on the role of social dynamics in ranging strategies. In this study, we reveal a greater degree of variability and flexibility in gorilla ranging behavior than previously realized which is relevant to improving comparative studies and informing conservation strategies on behalf of these endangered primates.

The Joint Log-Lift Task: A Social Foraging Paradigm.

Behavioural cooperation is under intense research. Yet, popular experimental paradigms often employ artificial tasks, require training, or do not permit partner choice, possibly limiting their biological relevance. We developed the joint log-lift task, a social foraging paradigm in which animals have to jointly lift a log to each obtain a food reward. The task relies on an obligate strategy, meaning that the only way to benefit is to work jointly. We hypothesised that (1) animals learn to spontaneously solve the task, and that (2) kin and (3) more sociable individuals would engage more often together in the task and achieve greater success than non-kin and less sociable individuals, respectively. We presented the task to 8 groups of juvenile domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) in their home pen for 30 min daily. Over the course of 9 days, the pigs showed evidence of learning by progressively switching from individual to joint behaviours, leading to 68% (62 out of 91 pigs) spontaneously solving the task. Success was influenced by sociability, but not kinship. There were large differences in success among dyads, hinting at the possible role of social dynamics and inter-individual differences in the ability and/or motivation to solve the task. The joint log-lift task allows researchers to investigate spontaneous cooperative tendencies of individuals, dyads and groups in the home environment through ad libitum engagement with the apparatus. This ecologically relevant paradigm opens the way to investigate social foraging experimentally at large scale, by giving animals free choice about when and with whom to work jointly.

Customer responses to service failures on social media

PurposeAs customers increasingly adopt social media as the primary channel to reach out to companies, voicing is becoming a public act. Adopting a social psychological perspective, this study aims to focus on the social dynamics that drive consumer voice on social media.Design/methodology/approachThe research uses three studies. First, a list of metaperceptions about voicing behavior is compiled using the critical incident technique, and then the hypothesized effects are tested with two scenario-based experiments.FindingsMetaperceptions mediate the relationship between social anxiety and the intention to voice on social media. Self-construal moderates the effect of metaperceptions, such that in the presence of a negative metaperception, the reluctance to post a direct complaint is attenuated under independent self-construal. Independent self-construal attenuates the positive effect of positive metaperception. An experimental comparison between social media and consumer review sites reveals that metaperceptions are only prevalent in social media and when the complainer construes him or herself as interdependent.Originality/valueSince lodging a direct complaint to a service provider has been mainly conceived as a private behavior, the role of social dynamics in the context of voicing remains under-researched. Aiming to fill this gap, the present research empirically examines how the presence of a perceived audience affects voicing behavior.

Space-time compression and hyperlocalisation: the new flâneurs

The experience of sensations such as time acceleration and space elimination has become common in modern life, which is increasingly organised in tune with the “real time” imposed by digital media. Throughout this article and starting with the concept of “time compression” presented by David Harvey (1999), the authors contrast technological determinism with other perspectives that suggest there is a dialogue-based relationship between technology and society. The text discusses notions such as deterritorialisation and detemporalisation that make it possible to understand the emergence of a fragmented and timeless data space, which corresponds to a “new geography”, in which it is no longer possible to establish a clear boundary between the physical and the digital world. The text is theoretically underpinned by the concept of the cyberflâneur, exploring the similarities with the 19th century flâneur described by Baudelaire (1996). Analysis of a set of artistic and experimental interventions addressing issues such as hyperlocalisation or ubiquity and pervasiveness enables us to use the character of the cyberflâneur in a twofold sense – as a sign of technical acceleration and also as a symbol of resistance to such acceleration. The authors conclude that the exponential evolution and increasing “naturalisation” of technology obligates us to consider its determining role in social dynamics, namely by transforming our relationship with the dimensions of space and time.

Membangun Generasi Cerdas Berhukum

Law has a strong relationship with humans and affects human life at all times. In this context the law is presented for human beings to fulfill the various interests in the social relations between humans, so that human intervention becomes the dominant factor in determining the erect or the collapse of the law. This is where the necessary intelligence of punishment is, how a nation interpret its own law and make itself an integral part of the legal system it embraces and in this context also a smart generation of law needs to be built. The role of building the intelligent generation of punishment can be done by students as a youth element that has strategic values supported by elements in the learning process and its role in social dynamics of society. The challenge for students is to educate their own penalties before educating the public in general.

Collaborative learning of clinical skills in health professions education: the why, how, when and for whom.

This study is designed to provide an overview of why, how, when and for whom collaborative learning of clinical skills may work in health professions education. Collaborative learning of clinical skills may influence learning positively according to the non-medical literature. Training efficiency may therefore be improved if the outcomes of collaborative learning of clinical skills are superior or equivalent to those attained through individual learning. According to a social interaction perspective, collaborative learning of clinical skills mediates its effects through social interaction, motivation, accountability and positive interdependence between learners. Motor skills learning theory suggests that positive effects rely on observational learning and action imitation, and negative effects may include decreased hands-on experience. Finally, a cognitive perspective suggests that learning is dependent on cognitive co-construction, shared knowledge and reduced cognitive load. The literature on the collaborative learning of clinical skills in health science education is reviewed to support or contradict the hypotheses provided by the theories outlined above. Collaborative learning of clinical skills leads to improvements in self-efficacy, confidence and performance when task processing is observable or communicable. However, the effects of collaborative learning of clinical skills may decrease over time as benefits in terms of shared cognition, scaffolding and cognitive co-construction are outweighed by reductions in hands-on experience and time on task. Collaborative learning of clinical skills has demonstrated promising results in the simulated setting. However, further research into how collaborative learning of clinical skills may work in clinical settings, as well as into the role of social dynamics between learners, is required.

Exploring social capital of emerging farmers from Eksteenskuil, South Africa

The objective of this paper was to quantify the levels of social capital of emerging raisin producers from Eksteenskuil, and to explore the relationship between the socio-economic characteristics of the farmers and their social capital levels. The respondents prove to have high levels of social capital. Interestingly, they tend to trust and get along with each other more than they actively participate in organised group activities in the community. Their social capital thus can be said to be more cognitive than structural. Higher levels of social capital were also found to be associated with higher age, experience and education levels of the respondents. Ultimately it was concluded that the complexity of social capital makes it difficult to implement initiatives that will contribute to developing the social capital levels of these farmers. Efforts to stimulate collective action and farmer-to-farmer skills transfer should take cognisance of the role of social dynamics in the behaviour of emerging farmers.

Considering the role of social dynamics and positional behavior in gestural communication research

While the hominin fossil record cannot inform us on either the presence or extent of social and cognitive abilities that may have paved the way for the emergence of language, studying non-vocal communication among our closest living relatives, the African apes, may provide valuable information about how language originated. Although much has been learned from gestural signaling in non-human primates, we have not yet established how and why gestural repertoires vary across species, what factors influence this variation, and how knowledge of these differences can contribute to an understanding of gestural signaling's contribution to language evolution. In this paper, we review arguments surrounding the theory that language evolved from gestural signaling and suggest some important factors to consider when conducting comparative studies of gestural communication among African apes. Specifically, we propose that social dynamics and positional behavior are critical components that shape the frequency and nature of gestural signaling across species and we argue that an understanding of these factors could shed light on how gestural communication may have been the basis of human language. We outline predictions for the influence of these factors on the frequencies and types of gestures used across the African apes and highlight the importance of including these factors in future gestural communication research with primates.

Examining the preferences of broods of mallard ducklings, Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos

In their natural habitat, ducklings are members of a brood. In imprinting experiments, ducklings are usually tested individually. However, testing ducklings individually does not allow researchers to test for the potential role of social dynamics in the formation of attachments. We describe a procedure for testing ducklings as a brood and report four experiments in which we tested this method. In the first experiment, we exposed experimental broods consisting of 10 mallard ducklings to a stimulus brood of three ducklings or three empty quadrants. The experimental broods preferred the stimulus brood more than the empty quadrants. In the second experiment, we exposed experimental broods to stimulus broods of three and nine ducklings and two empty quadrants. The stimulus brood of nine was preferred more than the other quadrants. The third and fourth experiments examined preferences for even larger stimulus broods and the effect of using a larger testing platform on the preferences shown. These experiments suggest an effective method for testing the preferences and developmental dynamics of broods of ducklings.

CORRUGATED CERAMICS AND MIGRATION IN THE PUEBLO III TO PUEBLO IV TRANSITION, SILVER CREEK, ARIZONA

This article explores the application of technological style analysis for detecting migrant populations in the Silver Creek area during the Pueblo III to Pueblo IV transition (A. D. 1250-1300). Following Bourdieu’s (1977) conceptualization of habitus, and its extension into the realm of technological style by Sackett (1982) and others (Clark 2001; Hegmon 1998; Lechtman 1977; Stark 1998), I explore the utility of technological style as a way of understanding why people create similar objects in different ways, and the implications of technological style in conceptualizing differences in identity. Four attributes of corrugated ceramics from Bailey Ruin (AZ P:11:1 [ASM]) that reflect manufacturing processes were measured and statistically compared to determine if any differences in manufacturing techniques could be detected, and if these differences could be meaningfully attributed to an influx of migrants with distinct enculturative backgrounds. Results demonstrated that differences in attributes existed between spatially discrete areas of Bailey Ruin. I argue that these differences provide an additional line of evidence suggesting migration played an important role in social dynamics during the occupation of this site.

The Social Dynamics of Aggressive and Disruptive Behavior in School: Implications for Behavior Consultation

The role of social dynamics in the establishment and maintenance of aggressive and disruptive behavior is reviewed and discussed in light of consultation. Three key areas are outlined: the contributions of social structures to interpersonal conflict, the relation between peer associations and problem behavior, and the relation between social positions and problem behavior. This article suggests that direct intervention efforts (e.g., social skills training, behavior management strategies, peer support strategies, grouping practices) can be augmented by information about ongoing social dynamics in the classroom and school. Specific ways that behavior consultants can use social dynamic information to support the direct intervention efforts of teachers and administrators are discussed.

The Social Dynamics of Aggressive and Disruptive Behavior in School: Implications for Behavior Consultation

The role of social dynamics in the establishment and maintenance of aggressive and disruptive behavior is reviewed and discussed in light of consultation. Three key areas are outlined: the contributions of social structures to interpersonal conflict, the relation between peer associations and problem behavior, and the relation between social positions and problem behavior. This article suggests that direct intervention efforts (e.g., social skills training, behavior management strategies, peer support strategies, grouping practices) can be augmented by information about ongoing social dynamics in the classroom and school. Specific ways that behavior consultants can use social dynamic information to support the direct intervention efforts of teachers and administrators are discussed.

Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply

Etude des deux formes de communication utilisee par les humains : le langage et la communication non verbale ; cette derniere forme etant utilisee par les primates pour communiquer. Commentaires, reponse de l'auteur.

Science and Resources: Prospects and Implications of Technological Advance Edited by Henry Jarrett (review)

Science and Resources: Prospects and Implications ofTechnological Advance. Edited by Henry Jarrett. Published for Resources for the Future, Inc. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. Pp. 250. $5.00. As man in our society achieves greater and greater control over his environment, forecasts ofscientific developments in the near future cease to be idle science fiction and become matters ofpublic planning and governmental policy. This book presents eighteen lectures given at the 1959 Resources for the Future Forum in Washington dealing with six areas "in which advances in the natural sciences are oflarge significance to resources and dieir management." Although the talks sometimes sound like amazing stories, the speakers are in fact distinguished and sober research scientists and industrial and government planners and administrators. Space prohibits naming diem all, but the lead essays on the different fields are by Nobel prizewinner George W. Beadle (Genetics); Professor Horace R. Byers (Weadier Modification); Professor John A. S. Adams (Exploring for Minerals); Earl P. Stevenson, Chairman ofthe Board ofthe Arthur D. Little Company (Chemical Technology); former AEC Commissioner Willard F. Libby (Nuclear Energy ); and CaI Tech President Lee A. DuBridge (New Knowledge from Outer Space). The lectures are clear, straightforward, and exciting. Beadle's paper (reprinted in BuIletin ofthe Atomic Scientists, November, 1959) is outstanding. One of die other authors says about it: "No audience of general readers has ever been given such a rapid and authoritative view of both the panoramic and the detailed biochemical-genetic aspects oflife." The agricultural genetics papers make the point that "today the average farmer in the United States is about forty times as efficient as his great, great, great-grandparents ofdie late eighteenth century. At the moment, agricultural efficiency is outrunning city efficiency." They emphasize the "trigger" role in social dynamics played by "agriculture's new multipliers"—that is, by genetics and nutrition studies and die related biochemical sciences. The papers on weather control emphasize the great possibilities and dangers of such control, both on a national and international scale; and the need for much more basic research and controlled experimentation, a need which is still being obstructed by private interests. On the minerals and chemical front—"molecular engineering"—the speakers assure us that new products will continue to come along and diat there will be no serious shortages of raw materials that cannot be overcome by increased exploration and ingenuity (although James Boyd of Kennecott Copper feels the squeeze, and says that mineral exploration cannot be hampered by die "nostalgia and sentiment" ofconservationists who are trying to preserve primitive wilderness areas against such destruction). Libby's talk on nuclear energy (reprinted in part in Bulletin oftheAtomic Scientists,June, IQ59) deals most interestingly with the peaceful uses of underground explosions—for earth-moving, oil recovery, and the production ofheat and isotopes. The talks on satellites and space research give a good factual summary ofdie scientific problems and the new knowledge we may get from the space program and the national and international problems connected with it. It is unfortunate that in this book, as in most scientific symposia today, the essays all sound as though they had been written by the same man; but it must be admitted that in 570 Book Reviews Perspectives in Biology and Medicine · Summer i960 this case die editing has produced a clear and easy style which can be read widi enjoyment by anyone. It should be noted that two important areas ofgreat significance for the future —solar energy and marine resources—were left out completely, as being less in need of discussion today; and the population problem receives only tangential treatment, although it is obviously ofdie first importance in a discussion ofresources and their management . It is to be hoped that Resources for the Future will sometime give these subjects a similarly authoritative and lucid public presentation. John Rader Platt Department ofPhysics University ofChicago' A Stereotaxic Atlas ofthe Dog's Brain. By Robert K. S. Lim, Chan-Nao Liu, and Robert L. MoFFrrr. Springfield, 111.: Charles C Thomas, i960. Pp. 93. Aldiough the dog is used extensively in Russia as an experimental subject, most neurophysiological studies on the central nervous system in diis country are done on rats, cats, and monkeys. One...