Web Diaries Research Articles

Evaluation of Practice Schools and Teachers within the scope of Teaching Practice Lesson through Web Diaries by Pre-service Teachers

This study aimed to evaluate practice schools and teachers through web diaries and teaching practice scale by pre-service teachers who attended pre-service teacher training certificate program which was put into practice in 2021-2022. The research was carried out with the exploratory sequential design, one of the mixed research designs. The study's qualitative data were collected from 30 pre-service teachers through structured web diaries. The quantitative data were obtained from 200 pre-service teachers using the "Opinion Scale on School Experience and Teaching Practice Course". As a result of the research, the pre-service teachers welcome the weight of the new pre-service teacher training certificate program put into practice. The pre-service teachers stated that they could easily interact with their teachers in practice schools and the lecturers from whom they took theory courses, and they could benefit from their experiences. This gives an idea about the effectiveness and sustainability of the new pre-service teacher training certificate program.

Nonimprovement in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Relation to Activity Patterns, Uplifts and Hassles, and Autonomic Dysfunction.

To test a model of nonimprovement in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) using self-report activity patterns (e.g., "push-crash"), uplifts and hassles, and a biological measure of cardiac autonomic function. Activity pattern impacts on symptoms and objective measures of autonomic and physical activity were also examined. This prospective study in CFS collected all data remotely, including 6 months of weekly web diaries that recorded symptom ratings, activity patterns, and hassles and uplifts. In addition, 6 months of weekly heart monitoring and 3 months of daily waking actigraphy data were collected. Improvement or nonimprovement status was assessed using semistructured interviews at the 6-month follow-up. A total of 148 individuals (87.2% female) were enrolled, and 12.2% were lost to follow-up. Participants reporting nonimprovement ( n = 92), as compared with improvement ( n = 38), showed greater autonomic dysfunction (lower heart rate variability, group difference = 5.93 [SE = 2.73] milliseconds; p = .032) and lower mean intensity of behavioral uplifts (group difference = 0.14 [SE = 0.16]; p = .043), but no significant differences in any activity pattern, including push-crash, limiting activity, and healthy pacing. This study provided evidence for linking patient-reported nonimprovement to a biological variable indexing autonomic dysfunction and a behavioral measure indicating a deficit in psychological uplifts. These findings suggest a possible marker of illness trajectory that could potentially advance the biomedical underpinnings of CFS.Trial Registration:ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02948556.

Solicitation of Knowledge Graph Enhanced Neural Network Objects Detection by Sentiment Analysis

In the machine learning technique, the knowledge graph is advancing swiftly; however, the basic models are not able to grasp all the affluence of the script that comes from the different personal web graphics, social media, ads, and diaries, etc., ignoring the semantic of the basic text identification. The knowledge graph provides a real way to extract structured knowledge from the texts and desire images of neural network, to expedite their semantics examination. In this study, we propose a new hybrid analytic approach for sentiment evaluation based on knowledge graphs, to identify the polarity of sentiment with positive and negative attitudes in short documents, particularly in 4 chirps. We used the tweets graphs, then the similarity of graph highlighted metrics and algorithm classification pertain sentimentality pre-dictions. This technique facilitates the explicability and clarifies the results in the knowledge graph. Also, we compare our differentiate the embeddings n-gram based on sentiment analysis and the result is indicated that our study can outperform classical n-gram models, with an F1-score of 89% and recall up to 90%.

Data Quality in Web and App Diaries: A Person-Level Comparison

The time-use diary is a complex and burdensome data collection instrument. This can negatively affect data quality, leading to less detailed and/or inaccurate activity reporting as the surveyed time period unfolds. However, it can also be argued that data quality may actually improve over time as respondents become more familiar with the diary instrument format and more interested in the diary task. These competing hypotheses have only been partially tested on data from paper and telephone-administered diaries, which are traditionally used for large-scale data collection. Less is known about self-administered modes that make use of new technologies, despite their increasing popularity among researchers. This research note rectifies this omission by comparing diary quality in self-administered web and app diaries, drawing on data from the Millennium Cohort Study. We construct a person-level data quality typology, using information on missing data, episode changes, and reporting of key daily activity domains. Results show significant mode differences on person-level data quality, after controlling for characteristics known to influence diary mode selection and data quality. App diarists were more likely to return two diaries of inconsistent quality. Both respondent fatigue and improvement of completion over time appear more common among app diarists.

Проблемы изучения диалогической коммуникации и специфика интернет-диалогов (на материале блога)

The article analyzes the specifics of dialogical communication on the Internet. There are differences between traditional handwritten and web diaries. The features of Internet users’ interaction in blogs hosted on the Yandex.Zen platform are analyzed. Posts and comments as components of the blog are considered in thematic, structural, semantic, and pragmatic aspects. The correlation of a post with the initiating replica-stimulus, and a comment with the responses (replicas - reactions) of a natural (primary) dialogue is proved. Commentary is defined as a flash genre focused on expressing feedback between the addressee and the addressee, on expressing the categories of dialogicality and intertextuality. This genre is characterized by axiology, a high degree of emotional and expressive saturation and colloquialism.

Cult of the Climate Change Polar Bear: Knut is Dead, Long Live Knut

Harvey et al (2017) evaluate public commentary on internet web diaries (blogs) about polar bear science as a proxy to measure climate change ‘denial,’ a term used to delegitimize dissenting views on Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) and climate change. Greenpeace has long employed the polar bear in its advocacy advertising for climate change action. The animal achieved cult status in 2005 when a polar bear cub nicknamed Knut, was rejected by its mother at the Berlin zoo. He was adopted and raised by a German zookeeper, to the delight of the public world-wide. Knut’s appearance on the world stage coincided with the release of the climate change movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” billed as “By far the most terrifying film you will ever see.” Knut’s rise to fame overshadowed the work of a National Academies Press report that questioned the validity of the radiative forcing/greenhouse gas theory of human-caused global warming. Knut died in public on March 19, 2011, drowning in the waters of his enclosure. This paper deconstructs Harvey et al (2017) and the framing of climate change in relation to polar bears and Knut, addressing influences in financial markets and the value of the internet public forum.

人はなぜウェブ日記を書き続けるのか : コンピュータ・ネットワークにおける自己表現( ネットワーキングの社会心理学)

人はなぜウェブ日記を書き続けるのか : コンピュータ・ネットワークにおける自己表現( ネットワーキングの社会心理学)

Digital absolution

Based on online observation of communication in a web-based weight loss forum, this article identifies the relevance of confession and absolution as characteristics of online interactions. Our close study of forum messages, arranged as web diaries open to comments from participants, shows that self-blaming posts elicited absolutional replies. With a primary interest in those personal posts which had a confessional character, we identified three aspects of absolution in replies: collective, prospective and supportive. Of special sociological interest is how online interaction in the forum challenges the concept of ‘civil inattention’ (Goffman, 1971) as a basic social norm for interaction in public spaces. Rather, absolutional attention defines the interactional order within the forum, in which diary authors receive feedback on their accounts of challenges, problems and failures. Studying online communication in detail may contribute to an important theoretical refinement of interactionist sociology, which currently strongly rests on studies from pre-Internet times.

Efficacy of two delivery modes of behavioral self-management in severe chronic fatigue syndrome

ABSTRACT Purpose: To assess the efficacy of fatigue self-management for severe chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Methods: This randomized trial enrolled 137 patients with severe CFS. Participants were randomized to one of three conditions: fatigue self-management with web diaries and actigraphs (FSM:ACT); fatigue self-management with less expensive paper diaries and pedometers (FSM:CTR); or an usual care control condition (UC). The primary outcome assessed fatigue severity at 3-month follow-up. Analysis was by intention-to-treat. Results: At 3-month follow-up, the FSM:CTR condition showed significantly greater reduction in fatigue severity compared to UC (p = .03; d = .58). No significant improvement was found at 12-month follow-up for the FSM:ACT or the FSM:CTR condition as compared to UC (p > .10). The combined active treatment conditions revealed significantly reduced fatigue at 3-month follow-up (p = .03), but not at 12-month follow-up (p = .24) compared to UC. Clinically significant improvements were found for 24–28% of the intervention groups as compared to 9% of the UC group. Attrition at 12-month follow-up was low (< 8%). Conclusion: Home-based self-management for severe CFS appeared to be less effective in comparison to findings reported for higher functioning groups. Home-based management may be enhanced by remotely delivered interventional feedback.

Cultural analysis of dieting consumers' construction of bodies and identities

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze how meanings of body and identity are constructed when dieting. The paper utilizes cultural approach and focuses on the ways meanings of body and identity are constructed in social interaction.Design/methodology/approachA netnographic research design connected to qualitative diary research was applied in the study. Three web diaries including notes from a period longer than one year were analysed inductively. That is, the research questions were approached data driven.FindingsThree themes showing the cultural meanings of dieting body were identified: “towards a better body”, “the ashamed body” and “back into control”. Moreover, two themes address the negotiating with the contradictory meanings of identity. They were labeled as “from invisible to visible” and “the humanlike scales”. The identified themes were further analysed in relation to previous findings presented by Thompson and Hirschman in their analysis of consumers' experiences of their embodied selves.Originality/valueLittle attention has been paid to dieting in previous cultural consumption studies even though meanings body and identity and their intertwining have been addressed. As the present findings are based on the naturally occurring data, they offer new ways to understand the meanings related to dieting. Maintaining the body project seems to be the project of becoming something (better) and therefore it asks the consumer to negotiate continuously with her body and identity. Consequently, the paper brings forth social and marketing implications that are developed on the grounds of findings.

Feasibility of using web surveys to collect time–activity data

Time-activity data are traditionally collected by telephone interviews or through paper diaries, which are time consuming and costly. As a potential alternative that may greatly save staff time, a web survey to collect time-activity data was developed and tested in this study. We collected 24-h recall web diaries from 151 parents of young children mostly under 55 years of age (who also answered for their children) and 55 older adults (≥ 55 years of age) both on a weekday and a weekend day every 3 months during an 18-month period. The performance and reliability of the web surveys collected were evaluated, including the survey-completion rate, and the percentage of surveys with unreasonable time being reported as spent sleeping and with missing reports of being in transit between locations. We also compared the web-survey data with time-activity information we collected from the same subjects in telephone interviews and found that these data sources were fairly consistent with each other. However, we observed slightly more compliance issues for the web than the telephone survey, but most of these issues could be addressed and minimized by refining some questions or the survey interface. Our study suggests that it is critical to reduce participants' burden and improve survey interface design for optimal compliance and data quality. In conclusion, web surveys are a promising method to consider for time-activity data collection.

Relationship between Diary-Keeping and Tendencies toward Alexithymia and Rumination

Relationships between diary-keeping and tendencies toward alexithymia and rumination were studied in 118 Japanese participants. Participants completed a questionnaire that assessed diary-keeping habits (both regular and Web diaries), alexithymia, and rumination. Individuals who wrote about their daily events epically (i.e., focusing on actions and events) in a regular diary considered both identifying and describing their feelings and controlling negative rumination to be less difficult than those who wrote lyrically (i.e., focusing on emotions). Those people who sometimes kept a diary on the Internet reported it was more difficult to both identify and describe their feelings and control negative rumination than those who did not write at all.

A Daily Web Diary of the Sexual Experiences of Men who have Sex with Men: Comparisons with a Retrospective Recall Survey

The emergence of Internet technology provides a unique opportunity to collect real-time information on the sexual behaviors of persons at risk for HIV. However, relatively little is known of the utility and reliability of web diaries. To address this gap, 45 predominantly Caucasian and gay, Internet-using men who have sex with men completed a 4-week daily web diary of their sexual behaviors. Afterward, participants completed an online retrospective recall survey (RRS) of their sexual activities during the diary period and satisfaction ratings of the web diary method. Overall, web diary estimates of sexual behaviors differed from the RRS, with a tendency to over-report on the latter with the exception of insertive unprotected anal intercourse. Additionally, compliance rates were high and there was some evidence for reactivity. Participants evaluated the web diary method positively. Web diaries appear to be a promising tool for collecting information on health behaviors.

Weblogs as Personal Narratives

Weblogs as Personal Narratives

Japanese Feeling for Privacy

In this paper, we discuss the Japanese feeling of privacy. In Japan, though “Information Society” had made Japanese people aware of their privacy, Japanese like to talk about their daily life on web diaries. We presume that these tendencies towards the privacy issue were encouraged by Japanese cultural attitudes. We tested this observation (hypothesis) through content analysis of newspaper databases and web log articles using computer coding and an online survey. Through the content analysis, we found that the diffusion of information causes a sense of crisis of privacy in newspaper articles but also found people’s interest in writing about their lives. Through the online survey, we clarified existence of two axes, which are privacy and wataskushi. Opposite to discussions in information ethics, and our expectations, privacy variables are not influenced by individualistic variables or independent self-image variables. There were influenced by in-between variables and violation of reciprocity variables. The concern for watakushi was influenced by both collaborative self image, reciprocity and individualism variables. That contains contradictory attitudes. This complexity is characteristic of watakushi privacy.

Web Diaries, Cyber Selves, and Global Intimacy: Surfing Secra Terri's FootNotes

(2001). Web Diaries, Cyber Selves, and Global Intimacy: Surfing Secra Terri's FootNotes. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 17, Private Lives/Public Texts: Women's Literary Diaries and Journals, pp. 119-138.

Keeping a diary in cyberspace

This research was conducted into people who post their diaries on the Internet (hereinafter referred to as Web diaries) to reveal the psychological implications of writing a diary in cyberspace. A total of 1,529 people were extracted from full‐text search engines and collections of Web diary links and surveyed. Invitations to participate were sent to the authors of the extracted home pages by e‐mail and the survey itself was conducted with the use of a home page form. There were 377 valid responses, giving a response rate of 24.7%. The Web diaries were broken down into four types: (a) self‐conscious records of fact (memoirs); (b) records of fact conscious of a relationship with the reader (journals); (c) self‐conscious expressions of sentiment (“(narrowly defined) diaries”); (d) expressions of sentiments conscious of a relationship with the reader (“open diaries”). The four types were described bidimensionally as (a) a record of fact or an expression of sentiment, and (b) the authors' consciousness is either self‐oriented or reader‐oriented. Moreover, these dimensions are closely intertwined with utility and self‐consciousness.