Role Of Social Technologies Research Articles

Agroecological innovations, social technologies and family farming

This paper is a systematic review of articles that address the relationship between Social Technology, Agroecological Innovations and Family Farming considering their convergence in food production. A search was carried out in the academic databases of Web of Science (WOS), Scopus (Elseiver), Agris, Google Scholar and CAPES journal database. By starting an analysis matrix that included the type of study, the conceptual framework, the methodology and the object of study, 16 articles were selected. In the study, a series of coincidences were identified about the type of study, the methodology, the object of study, and the concepts used. An approach that focuses on the role of agroecological innovations outside the specific experiences with a focus on understanding the own agroecological innovation system where the role of social technologies is fundamental as long as it is considered as elements that strengthen the agroecological transition processes and not as palliatives or as technologies with low intensity in knowledge.

The Role of Social Technologies in Enhancing Organizational Ingenuity: A Survey Study in Asiacell Communications

The study aimed to identify the role played by social technologies in enhancing and supporting organizational ingenuity, and in order to achieve this goal, the study model was built based on what has been reviewed from previous studies. Perceived benefit, perceived benefit, social interaction, social efficiency, perceived encouragement, social influence and facilitation of conditions), while the dimensions of organizational ingenuity were (exploration ingenuity and exploitative prowess). The study showed that there is a significant effect of social technologies on all organizational ingenuity, both exploratory and exploitative in the company in question. proceeds to the company.

International entrepreneurship by family firms post Covid

The Covid pandemic has brought about major changes in the global business environment in which family firms operate. As a result, researchers studying these firms have a golden opportunity to leverage these changes as they study fundamental questions related to the changing roles of institutions, the social role of technology, the contribution and changing nature of ownership, and the social role of the firm. These changes also are likely to alter family firms’ culture and identity. Examining these issues will enrich our theory building while providing more evidence-based guidance on how to attain and sustain resilience as family firms pursue international entrepreneurship.

Managing categories: The role of social technology in kindergarten teachers’ work to promote early intervention and integration

Early intervention and integration are highly valued ideals in kindergartens in Norway. Building on two research projects informed by institutional ethnography, the authors address how kindergarten teachers ‘do’ early intervention and integration in their everyday work. They argue that this work largely revolves around managing categories, whether making categories fit people or making people fit categories. In this work, the kindergarten teachers rely on social technology that is influenced by a ‘psy-discourse’. Despite good intentions, the social technology and the professionals’ use of it ends up constructing the categories they are intended to help or ‘heal’.

The role of social technologies in community care - A realist evaluation of a Danish web-based citizen-to-citizen platform adopted in community care to promote belonging and mental health.

As social technologies increase in popularity, there is a growing interest in incorporating them into mental health interventions. Research shows that the use of social technologies may support belonging and mental health. Findings, however, are contradictory and highlight the need to clarify the processes and mechanisms by which this technology may have positive effects. This study conducted a realist evaluation of a web-based citizen-to-citizen platform adopted within community care in a Danish Municipality. It focused on how, for whom and under what circumstances the web-based platform worked to promote belonging and mental health. The evaluation was structured in subsequent phases of development, testing, and refinement of programme theories. A purposeful sampling frame was developed based on the programme theories, and 27 interviews were conducted. With variations, the platform was found to support its users in meeting their social needs by (a) expanding their access to social networks; (b) allowing them to overcome barriers related to reaching out to new people in real life and (c) providing them with an improved starting point for identification of a relational match. Whether this resulted in improved belongingness and mental health was strongly affected by individual and relational circumstances. Findings suggest that web-based platforms that aim to enable citizens to locate friends and activity partners can serve as helpful tools in interventions striving to promote mental health in the community, as they may support people to fulfil a need for belongingness. However, the impact of such tools is highly dependent on the individual's abilities to use the initiatives to form relationships of sufficient quality to accommodate these needs. People with previous relational difficulties, and who have struggled to achieve feelings of belonging and citizens with limited digital literacy, may need support to realise the social opportunities provided by these technologies.

Help Comes from Understanding: The Positive Effect of Communication Visibility on Employee Helping Behavior.

Extant research focuses on the antecedents of employee helping behavior, but the role of social technologies in enhancing employee helping behavior remains understudied. The purpose of our research is to investigate the relationship between communication visibility and employee helping behavior. Drawing on both communication visibility theory and social cognitive theory, we propose that the association between communication visibility and helping behavior is mediated by employee psychological state assessed by a cognitive state variable: trust in coworkers. Further, we also propose that proactive personality moderates the positive effect of trust in coworkers on employee helping behavior. We examined our hypothesized relationships using 149 employees collected in a field experiment in China. As hypothesized, we find that trust in coworkers mediates the relationship between communication visibility and helping behavior. Moreover, proactive personality strengthens the effectiveness of communication visibility. We discuss the implications of our findings for future research and practice.

Enterprise social media affordances as enablers of knowledge transfer and creative performance: An empirical study

Extant research largely views employee creativity to be driven by individual characteristics, contextual factors, and interactions between them. However, the role of social technologies in enhancing employees’ creativity remains understudied. To address this gap, this study constructs and empirically examines a research model to explore the effect of enterprise social media (ESM) affordances on employee creative performance from the perspective of knowledge transfer. An analysis of survey data gathered from 365 Chinese employees using Dingtalk indicates that association, visibility, persistence, and editability affordances of ESM exert positive influences on knowledge acquisition and knowledge provision, which further facilitates creative performance. Findings show that the links between ESM affordances and creative performance are mainly mediated by knowledge provision. This study enriches the extant research on social technologies and user innovation, and provides guidance for enterprise practice.

Friends or Frenemies? The Role of Social Technology in the Lives of Older People.

By having a healthy and happy social life, social needs are fulfilled. When social needs are not fulfilled, loneliness and social isolation can occur, which have negative consequences for one’s physical and mental health. Social technology, technology that enables social interaction, can be a resource to fulfil the social needs of older people. In this study, we aimed to learn what role social technology plays in the social life of older people. We held 15 interviews with people aged over 70 who regularly use some form of social technology. Our results indicate that social technology plays different roles in the lives of older people. It strengthens the existing social relationships and social structures. It also brings depth and fun to the social contacts of older people and in this way, enriches their social lives. Social technology also gives a sense of safety and peace of mind to the older people themselves but also to their network members. However, there are barriers in the use of social technology. The older people struggled with using social technology and feel that social technology sometimes stands in the way of real human contact. In supporting and facilitating people’s relationship with others, a community and society, technology helps fulfil older people’s need for connectedness, meaningfulness and independence. However, the relationship with independence is ambiguous. Their life experience gives older people a thoughtful way of looking at social technology and the role it plays in their lives.

“It’s all about incentive”: Social technology as a potential facilitator for self-determined physical activity participation for young people with physical disabilities

ABSTRACTPurpose: To investigate the perceived role of social technologies in promoting physical activity participation for young people with physical disabilities and to identify design considerations that should be addressed when creating social technologies to promote physical activity. Method: Interactive design workshops for young people with physical disabilities aged 12–18 (n = 8) were held. Data were analyzed using interpretive thematic analysis. Results: Young people perceived significant benefit for social technologies to promote physical activity as they have the potential to overcome many barriers to physical activity participation. Design features recommended by the participants included (1) options for diverse interests and preferences, (2) provision of informational support, (3) support through equitable technology design, (4) incentive through competition and play, and (5) opportunities to develop community. Conclusions: Social technology has potential to provide tailored, equitable opportunities for social engagement and physical activity participation for young people with physical disabilities through needs- and preference-specific design.

Technologies of the Electoral Process: A Field Study of the Possibility of Informative Communication

The article focuses on the role of social technology in the Russian electoral process. On this basis, the author provides answers to more general issues concerning such questions as whether it is possible in the Russian context to combine social stability and informative political communication; whether a conflict-free processing of objective information can be achieved; whether political communication can extricate itself from self-referential isolation around the issue of social unity and address the real challenges facing society; and whether the authorities will be able to transition from motivative-integrative social technologies to object-information technologies.

The role of social technologies in formation of innovative potential of human capital

The role of social technologies in formation of innovative potential of human capital

Social Media in Politics: The Ultimate Voter Engagement Tool or Simply an Echo Chamber?

This paper analyses the role played by social media in shaping political debate during the UK election campaign of May 2010, with a focus on local application within two constituencies in Hampshire. Barack Obama's presidential campaign was such a digital triumph that it propelled social media onto the radar of marketers within commercial organisations worldwide. Literature in the field of political marketing has recommended the development of relationship marketing strategies in politics (e.g., Henneberg and O'Shaughnessy 2009) but more research is needed to focus on the role of social technologies and to bring theory up to speed with practice (Harris and Lock 2010). Our paper concludes that the UK general election was far being from an “Internet election.” There was little evidence of the methodical and integrated approach to online and offline engagement demonstrated by the Obama campaign. Our contribution asserts that, as in the business world, social media communications can add significant value at the local level when implemented as part of a systematic and long-term online and offline relationship-building strategy but are not well suited to short-term applications intended to influence the outcome of particular campaigns.

Роль социальных технологий в повышении эффективности управления институтом малого бизнеса

Роль социальных технологий в повышении эффективности управления институтом малого бизнеса

The Social Role of Technology in Coastal Alaska

Novel technologies linked to women and men through identity-demarcated tasks and knowledge sets can potentially have differential and even long-term effects on each group. This study follows the trajectory of two significant imports into the coastal western Alaskan system, the firearm and the metal cook pot. These imports had different implications for coastal Yup’ik women and men, young and old. Over time the gun became an integral piece of a man’s tool kit and one that had the potential to boost production and thus a man’s access to status-building. However, these same tools had the potential to undermine the apprenticeship system of male authority. Likewise, the metal cook pot replaced the productive oversight and skill set of elder women’s ceramic production but created paths of independence for younger Yup’ik women. These changes in technology destabilized relative balances of gender and age based status, security, and authority and fashioned new gender and age based social and economic opportunities and limitations.

Symposium 12: Information Society Studies in Practice - a Networked Learning Case Study

NETIS (Network for Teaching Information Society) is a consortium, the aim of which is to develop a course as part of a two-year programme (2006-2008), with the support of the European Union funded Leonardo da Vinci Programme. The course prepared by NETIS is designed to provide an introduction to information society studies mainly for undergraduate students. Our aspiration is that a model course will be designed based not only on the prepared teaching materials but also on the experiences of teachers as well as students, and that it will hopefully be regarded as being of a high standard all over Europe. The course book was published first in Hungarian in 2007 and will be published in English and Greek in 2008, and prepared in printed, in Moodle and in CD versions. Obviously it is not only students who can benefit from a course book like this but also teachers, researchers, experts and all those who find this area interesting. Because the book is written in modules with each topic as an independent unit in itself as well as part of the larger whole, it is not necessary to read the course book in its entirety. The book covers the following topics: the concept, theory and history of the information society, the social role of technology, the network society and economy, the use of space and changes in social relations pertaining to space, the growing significance of innovation in the economy and in society, issues of legal regulation, the information society strategy of the European Union, electronic government and administration, the digital divide and e-equal opportunities, digital culture, the digitalisation of the cultural heritage, information literacy, electronic education, life long learning. The course book is supplemented with a separate collection of readings to provide further help to students (i.e. textbook with studies, student papers and country reports). Based on these materials courses were taught in several institutions of higher education from the autumn of 2007 in Hungary, England, Greece and Slovakia, both through traditional learning and e-learning. Based on the results from teaching and research findings of our project we can describe the experiences of students and teachers, their expectations and impressions. The aims of this research are to give methodological advice to teachers on how to teach our course book, to teach information society in general, to teach a blended learning course with the use of a Moodle system, and to teach in a network with other teachers and students. NETIS also helps to understand the adoption of such materials and curriculum in different countries. The conclusions are beneficial not only for teachers and researchers on information society but also for any teacher who plans to use e-learning systems, plans to teach a blended learning course, plans to have networked learning or organizes international collaboration in education. The NETIS team introduces the project itself, and its general experience in a separate panel at the 6th Networked Learning Conference: teaching methods regarding networked learning based on feedback from students and teachers and cultural aspects of the project. This article provides the general introduction for the project and the other papers concentrate on the results in the most important fields.