Communities In Social Networks Research Articles

EMP: in search of optimal mode of delivery

Introduction. The use of digital technologies in tertiary education is one of the most pronounced modern trends. The digital component of education in the university context is rapidly developing and tends to replace traditional campus-based forms. However, the variety of aspects of this problem addressed in publications indicates that ready-made decisions on how much and in what form to introduce the online component in the practices of each specific university does not exist. The decision has to be made based on the analysis of a number of real and projected factors. The aim of the article is to identify the optimal mode of delivery for teaching English for medical purposes, taking into account the digital resources available, and to propose a new vector for increasing the efficiency of their use. Materials and Methods. The material for the paper was digital resources used in teaching English: LMS-hosted courses of Russian medical universities, Massive Open Online Courses, virtual worlds, online communities in social networks, mobile applications and relevant publications on the issues considered. The paper uses the descriptive method coupled with systematization method based on the SECTIONS model. Results. The relevance of introduction of digital tools, services, and online delivery models highly relies on, firstly, the specificity of the subject – its primary focus on the development of productive speech skills, the features of conventional communication in medicine and the associated need for learning from authentic materials; secondly, on the specifics of electronic resources intended for learning a foreign language – their suitability for developing communication skills, supporting conventional communication, access to authentic language input, opportunities of learning from mistakes, monitoring the development of productive speech skills, and monitoring students’ work with resources; thirdly, from the willingness and ability of educators to create or select the necessary educational content and combine it with classroom experience, and the readiness of the students to capitalize on it. Conclusion. We suggest a number of steps for EMP course aimed at more effective use of online learning content, such as unification, balancing face-to-face work and self-study, restructuring face-toface class and providing continual guidance for students and faculty.

Signs of a Manager’s Leadership in a Quality Educational Institution: Cases of the City and District Centre of Lithuania

One of the problems in Lithuania is the shortage of heads of educational institutions; many schools are looking for teachers, and there is a constant shortage of teaching staff. In addition, the issue of quality education is often debated. The article analyses the concept of a quality educational institution: the attributes and personal qualities of a manager-leader. The research was conducted in two schools in Lithuania (a large city and a district centre), which are characterised as high-quality educational institutions. These schools in Lithuania are highly rated in terms of pupil achievement, external audit data, and statements made by school communities in public space and social networks. The aim of the study is to investigate the attributes of a leader of a quality educational institution and its leader. The study used a qualitative methodology: semi-structured interviews with school leaders, teachers, and parents of students belonging to the school council. Qualitative research was chosen because it would be difficult to reveal the meaning of the problem using a quantitative method, as each respondent has his or her own individual opinion, which depends on his or her experiences. The data were analysed according to coding categories. According to the study, it can be stated that for a leader of a quality educational institution, it is very important to follow such principles as respect for others, knowledge of others, democratic values, belief in colleagues and their abilities, and lifelong learning should be part of the daily life of the educational community.

Fake Accounts Identification in Mobile Communication Networks Based on Machine Learning

Fake accounts on online social networks are increasing today with an increase in the number of active social network users. Social media websites allow users to share thoughts, facts, views and re-sharing these into various networks. Social media platforms provide users with enormous valuable information but with this great amount of information in social media, many issues like fake profile, online hacking have also grown. The fake profiles in online social sites create fake news and share unwanted material which contains spam links that affect natural users. The massive issue in social media communication networks is spam and it is necessary to identify fake profiles to stop spam. In this paper, a supervised machine learning algorithm called support vector machine (SVM) is used to identify fake accounts on social media effectively. In order to automatically identify fake online profiles, Random Forest classifier is used with SVM. With this concept, it can be applied online easily to identify millions of accounts that cannot be examined manually. The result of this model is compared with other identification techniques and the results show that the proposed algorithm performs better with high precision and recall. This method efficiently safeguards social media networks from online threats and attacks.

Uncertainty Management Strategies in Communication About Urinary Tract Infections.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common bacterial infection, and yet the etiology, treatment, and prevention of UTIs are often clouded by uncertainty. UTIs can cause severe pain and may lead to serious infection, but communication about UTIs can help individuals manage this condition and avoid recurring UTIs. Grounded in uncertainty management theory (UMT), this study explored how individuals with female anatomy manage uncertainty surrounding UTIs. Iterative analysis was employed using UMT to analyze 21 qualitative interviews. Participants used uncertainty management strategies of talking to health care providers, eliciting social support, and using the internet to gather information. Results indicated that talking to heath care providers was a dominant strategy intended to reduce uncertainty about the diagnosis and treatment of their symptoms. However, these interactions inadvertently increased uncertainty as well, as providers did not provide information about the causes and prevention of UTIs. Some participants also engaged in deception to reduce uncertainty about how their providers would respond to their pain and their illness. Finally, participants employed metaphors to interpret and neutralize uncertainty related to their experiences. Implications for these findings include guidelines and support for patient and provider communication, communication in social networks, as well as deeper nuances and development for UMT.

A study of the correlation between publication delays and measurement indicators of journal articles in the social network environment-based on online data in PLOS.

The development of network technique and open access has made numerous research results freely obtained online, thereby facilitating the growth of the emerging evaluation methods of Altmetrics. However, it is unknown whether the time interval from reception to publication has an impact on the evaluation indicators of articles in the social network environment. We construct a range of time-series indexes that represent the features of the evaluation indicators and then explore the correlation of acceptance delay, technical delay, and overall delay with the relevant indicators of citations, usage, sharing and discussions, and collections that are obtained from the open access journal platform PLOS. Moreover, this research also explores the differences in the correlations of the delays for the literature in six subject areas with the corresponding indicators and the discrepancies of the correlations of delays and indexes in various metric quartiles. The results of the Mann-Whitney U test reveal that the length of delays affects the performance of the literature on some indicators. This study indicates that reducing the acceptance time and final publication time of articles can improve the efficiency of knowledge diffusion through the formal academic citation channel, but in the context of social networking communication, an appropriate interval at a particular stage in the publishing process can enhance the heat of sharing, discussion, and collection of articles to a small extent, hence boosting the influence and attention received by the literature on the internet.

Health consequences and control of the use of information and communication technologies by children and adolescents: literature review

The review reflects publications in the field of medicine, psychology and sociology, covering: the negative impact of the uncontrolled use of information and communication technologies on the health of the child and adolescent population in the broad sense of the term health, covering not only physical, but also psychological, and social well-being. The results of medical observations and psychological research indicate that digital technologies have become a significant factor affecting the health of children and adolescents, the development of their cognitive functions, emotional and social development. Mass surveys have revealed an increase in the duration of daily use of digital devices and the Internet by the younger generation, a significant part of the surveyed adolescents are now classified as abusers of computer games and the Internet, there is also a category of users with signs of forming or developing dependence on computer games and the Internet. Considering that communication in social networks takes a significant share of the younger generations time, influencing the user, the review reflects studies of the peculiarities of communication between adolescents and young people in social networks. Taking into account that the use of electronic learning tools creates a burden on students, studies are highlighted that raise the issue of comparing the effectiveness of using digital learning tools relative to traditional forms of learning. It is well known that parental control of the use of communication technologies by children is a condition for preserving their health. Surveys show insufficient competence of parents in this matter. There is a need for sociological research of parents ideas about the specifics of the risks of using digital technologies for the health of children and adolescents of different ages, educating the population about these risks, especially the risks to the health of children of early and preschool age.

Digital Ethnic Enclaves: Mate Preferences and Platform Choices Among Chinese Immigrant Online Daters in Vancouver

In light of the growing racialized immigrant population in Canada and advances in dating technologies, this study examines Chinese immigrants' partner preferences and mate selection processes through the lens of online dating. We draw on in-depth interviews with 31 Chinese immigrants who have used online dating services in Metro Vancouver to search for different-sex partners. Chinese immigrant online daters show strong preferences for dating Chinese. They emphasize permanent residency status and similarity in age at arrival when evaluating potential partners. Given their preferences, Chinese immigrants strategically choose the dating platforms they primarily use. Men exhibit higher selectivity in their preferences and choices of platforms. Notably, platforms catering to Chinese users create "digital ethnic enclaves" where Chinese immigrant daters congregate. The findings illuminate the intersection of race, gender, immigrant status, and age at arrival in shaping divergent experiences of mate selection and immigrant assimilation in the digital era.

Can Resilience Buffer the Effects of Loneliness on Mental Distress Among Working-Age Adults in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Latent Moderated Structural Modeling Analysis.

The profound health consequences of loneliness are well-established. However, less is known about the protective factors which may alleviate the effects of loneliness on mental health especially among working-age adults amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on the social ecology of resilience and examine whether resilience factors can buffer the effects of loneliness on mental distress. Data came from the National Well-being Survey-a national study of a demographically representative sample of U.S. working-age adults (N = 4014). We used (a) structural equation models with latent variables to examine the main effects of loneliness, psychological resilience, and perceived social support on mental distress, and (b) latent moderated structural equations to estimate the latent interaction effects. Results revealed that (a) loneliness was positively associated with mental distress and psychological resilience was negatively related to mental distress, and (b) psychological resilience and perceived social support moderated the strength of the relationship between loneliness and mental distress. Our study highlights the importance of psychological resilience and perceived social support as two protective factors in the relationship between loneliness and mental distress. Given that loneliness significantly predicts worse mental and physical health and higher mortality, identifying protective factors that might disrupt these connections is vital. As such, public health efforts to strengthen and expand familial and community social support networks and foster psychological resilience are urgently needed to support mental health among working-age adults during additional waves of the pandemic or future similar stressors.

Efficient combinations of dual incentives on social networks to achieve viral spread

The high penetration of online communication in social networks provides a perfect context for launching a viral marketing campaign. Viral marketing strategies with adoption and promotion incentives are applied by companies for acquiring customers and occupying the market rapidly. In this paper, motivational thresholds and the SAN diffusion model are introduced to describe the massage diffusion process. Diffusion thresholds of dual incentives under homogeneous and heterogeneous networks are both deduced. We compare different effects of adoption and promotion incentives on marketing performances including the final penetration and the diffusion speed with numerical simulation. Simulation results show not only a greater influence of promotion incentives than adoption but also the necessity of adoption incentives for higher penetration. Besides, simulation results also show different diffusion characteristics between homogeneous and heterogenous networks, which provide management implications for selecting target customers with different network structures.

Mpox vaccination willingness, determinants, and communication needs in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, in the context of limited vaccine availability in the Netherlands (Dutch Mpox-survey).

In the 2022 multicountry mpox (formerly named monkeypox) outbreak, several countries offered primary preventive vaccination (PPV) to people at higher risk for infection. We study vaccine acceptance and its determinants, to target and tailor public health (communication-) strategies in the context of limited vaccine supply in the Netherlands. Online survey in a convenience sample of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, including transgender persons (22/07-05/09/2022, the Netherlands). We assessed determinants for being (un)willing to accept vaccination. We used multivariable multinominal regression and logistic regression analyses, calculating adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95 percent confidence-intervals. An open question asked for campaigning and procedural recommendations. Of respondents, 81.5% (n = 1,512/1,856) were willing to accept vaccination; this was 85.2% (799/938) in vaccination-eligible people and 77.7% (713/918) in those non-eligible. Determinants for non-acceptance included: urbanization (rural: aOR:2.2;1.2-3.7; low-urban: aOR:2.4;1.4-3.9; vs. high-urban), not knowing mpox-vaccinated persons (aOR:2.4;1.6-3.4), and lack of connection to gay/queer-community (aOR:2.0;1.5-2.7). Beliefs associated with acceptance were: perception of higher risk/severity of mpox, higher protection motivation, positive outcome expectations post vaccination, and perceived positive social norms regarding vaccination. Respondents recommended better accessible communication, delivered regularly and stigma-free, with facts on mpox, vaccination and procedures, and other preventive options. Also, they recommended, "vaccine provision also at non-clinic settings, discrete/anonymous options, self-registration" to be vaccinated and other inclusive vaccine-offers (e.g., also accessible to people not in existing patient-registries). In the public health response to the mpox outbreak, key is a broad and equitable access to information, and to low-threshold vaccination options for those at highest risk. Communication should be uniform and transparent and tailored to beliefs, and include other preventive options. Mpox vaccine willingness was high. Public health efforts may be strengthened in less urbanized areas and reach out to those who lack relevant (community) social network influences.

Aspects of media communication in social networks

The peer-reviewed two-volume monograph Social Networks: A Comprehensive Linguistic Analysis (2021) is devoted to the study of the existence of language in modern social networks. The first volume covers the general issues of the linguistic study of Internet communication, its linguocognitive and discursive aspects, as well as its characteristic speech genres. The second volume provides a description of linguo-personological, conflictological and linguo-didactic aspects of communication in social networks. Each volume has a predetermined structural sequence: an introduction by the scientific editor, three chapters, and an off-text bibliographiс list. Social networks in today’s world implement mainly the integrative function of language, aimed at overcoming spatio-temporal restrictions. An auxiliary machine translation option provided for major international Internet platforms also aims to remove the language barrier. The disintegrative potential of social networks, as an antinomic pandan of the integrative function, is manifested in the physical isolation and anonymization of users. The leading trends in the intralinguistic nature of media interaction should be recognized as the determination of industry terminologies as well as the hybridization of texts (turning them into hypertexts by supplying hyperlinks, supplying them metacommunicative symbols, etc.). The extralinguistic features include the massive nature of Internet bilingualism. In general, social networks continue the transhumanistic mission of language in the virtual space: to serve as a means of overcoming the negative aspects of being through the mediatization of man and society, which is expressed by such properties of Internet communication as achronism, acentricity (rhizomorphism), hybridity and alinearity.

LINGUO-STYLISTIC FEATURES OF COMMUNICATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS.

LINGUO-STYLISTIC FEATURES OF COMMUNICATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS.

A QLearning Approach for an efficient Estimation Of Initial Number of Communities in social networks

In modern society, social networks have become the main means of communication, enabling links to be created and facilitating the exchange of information between individuals. Consequently, the study of relationships and their impact on individuals, through social network analysis (SNA), has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers. In particular, communities, which play an essential role in the flow of information within a network, have been the subject of extensive study in the field of social network analysis. The difficulty with any community detection approach lies in the initialization stage, as the number of communities is unknown. This paper presents QESN, a new initialization approach for community detection based on QLearning, a reinforcement learning algorithm, which estimates the initial number of communities, thus providing an initial population of good quality, which is therefore improved using the Brain Storm Optimization metaheuristic. Through empirical studies conducted on seven social networks, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, which outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms.

Presenting a Novel Method for Identifying Communities in Social Networks Based on the Clustering Coefficient

Presenting a Novel Method for Identifying Communities in Social Networks Based on the Clustering Coefficient

"Alive Despite All the Odds": Сollective Memory of Cossacks in Social Networks

The subject of this research is mnemonic practices, i.e. ways of actualizing the past in the collective memory of modern (2010–2020) Cossacks. I chose Cossack communities in social networks for the analysis because they are part of the public sphere and differ from print or official media in their almost complete absence of censorship and freedom of discussion, even on topics excluded from the official public discourse. The main instruments of my research are content and discourse analysis in the methodology of E. Laclau and S. Mouffe. I have found that the most problematic topics for the collective memory of the revived Cossacks are the genocide of the Cossacks and collaboration during World War II. Two narratives of Cossack history – heroic and victimized - coexist in the heterogeneous Cossack community. Often, both versions of the Cossack past are instrumentalized by the same actor for the political needs of the current moment.

Issues of Public Awareness about the Activities of Territorial Public Self-government in Solving Issues of Urban Environment Improvement.

In a modern city, the role of interaction between local governments and the population is increasing. The author considers in detail territorial public self-government (CBT) as an important form of public participation in solving issues of local importance, in particular, landscaping. With the right organization, this institute has a huge potential for involving residents in solving issues of local importance, in particular in the field of urban improvement. The prospects for the development of this institution largely depend on the awareness and involvement of the population in this form of self-government. The low level of public awareness is considered as a factor constraining the development of territorial public self-government. The article presents the results of a survey of residents of the city of Tyumen, which demonstrate a low level of awareness of the population about the activities of CBT. These studies confirmed the need to increase the level of knowledge about the role and tools of CBT among citizens. As a solution to the problem of the existing imbalance between the high potential of CBT and the low level of awareness of the population about its work, the author suggests a number of measures, such as the creation of specialized Internet portals, communities in social networks; the use of social advertising in the media and city events to popularize the activities of CBT. The information base will create an infrastructure for realizing the potential of CBT, will make it possible to identify and implement socially significant initiatives of citizens.

Parameter Tuning of Coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimizer for Detection of Communities in Social Networks

Parameter Tuning of Coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimizer for Detection of Communities in Social Networks

Chuvash Regional Communities in Social Networks

Chuvash Regional Communities in Social Networks

SOCIALIZATION OF A CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

In the modern world the problem of children inclusion has become very acute. Possibility to communicate is in high demand among children with special needs. Speech barriers can easily be overcome by using social networks and various chat rooms for communication. With virtual communication, shyness and avoidance of communication are reduced for both normal children and children with special needs. The objective of this study is to reveal positive tendency in communication on the Internet among children with special needs. The method of the study is the questionnaire which has been elaborated and adapted for the respondents. The respondents are  teenagers with special needs aged from  to . Main results show that  respondents out of  have not changed their views on communication with their peers. Other  respondents have felt that shyness in communication has been reduced. The remaining  people have had positive interaction experience. They are willing to continue communication in social networks and have found online pen pals. Conclusion. The study has showed that social networking and messaging have a positive impact on the attitude of adolescents with special needs towards communication. Many children with special needs have speech spectrum disorders and have diffi culties in starting informal communication with peers because of shyness and increased time of this communication. However, in virtual communication, these barriers are signifi cantly reduced, the quality of social life, confi dence, overall psychological state are improved. In addition, it is important that respondents “on the other side of the screen” (normal teenagers) have been willing to make contact, showed interest (which might not have happened in everyday life) even if they never had prior communication with people with special needs. Therefore, virtual communication is effective as a way of establishing informal communication for children with special needs.

Communication in Social Networks as a Negative Factor Affecting the Performance of Schoolchildren

This article explores how social media has evolved into an online discussion category where people create content, share it, bookmark it, and chat at incredible speed. With ease of use, speed and reach, social media is rapidly changing public discourse in society and setting trends and agendas in areas ranging from environment and politics to technology and entertainment. Thanks to the invention of social media, people are now sharing ideas, feelings, personal information, photos and videos at an amazing rate. Over the past few years, the increased use of social networking sites has become an international phenomenon. What started as a hobby for some computer literate people has become a social norm and lifestyle for people all over the world. Teens and young adults use these sites as a way to connect with their peers, share information, reinvent their identity, and showcase their social lives. But in fact, this method of communication, as two sides of the coin, brings with it both positive and negative impacts. Social networks are distracting and time-consuming. Schoolchildren sit online for hours, completely ignoring their studies, which leads to a decrease in their academic performance.