Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture' the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values that individuals and communities ascribe to it. To highlight the specific changes produced by social media, the book is structured around three major themes: Social Practice. New ways of understanding and experiencing heritage are emerging as a result of novel social practices of collection, representation, and communication enabled and promoted by social media. Public Formation. In the presence of widely available social technologies, peer-to-peer activities such as information and media sharing are rapidly gaining momentum, as they increasingly promote and legitimate a participatory culture in which individuals aggregate on the basis of common interests and affinities. Sense of Place. As computing becomes more pervasive and digital networks extend our surroundings, social media and technologies support new ways to engage with the people, interpretations and values that pertain to a specific territorial setting. Heritage and Social Media provides readers with a critical framework to understand how the participatory culture fostered by social media changes the way in which we experience and think of heritage. By introducing readers to how social media are theorized and used, particularly outside the institutional domain, the volume reveals through groundbreaking case studies the emerging heritage practices unique to social media. In doing so, the book unveils the new issues that are emerging from these practices and the new space for debate and critical argumentation that is required to illuminate what can be done in this burgeoning sector of heritage.
The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg remains largely unexplored as far as social science is concerned. An excellent study in electoral sociology by Jules Gérard-Libois gives interesting insights and points out rather convincingly that Luxembourg is endowed with a political system that has a marked degree of specificity, be it from the point of view of the electoral system, electoral habits or the social structure in general. It shows in particular that owing to the rather peculiar electoral system (ordinal proportional representation system allowing panachage), a large party diversity and a dynamic regionalism is fostered.Consequently, the systematic study of small political entities such as Luxembourg enables a considerable and genuine refinement of political analysis.
In: Mir nauki: sociologija, filologija, kul'turologija : naučnyj žurnal otkrytogo dostupa = World of science : sociology, philology, cultural studies, Band 12, Heft 4
The article identifies and comments on the principles of communication adopted in professional Internet communities. The study was carried out on the material of Facebook social network groups created to discuss the problems of higher education and teaching the Russian language. The theoretical foundations of the research are works devoted to Internet communication and professional communication; the most significant are theses on communicative norms, the meaning of their observance and the causes of violations. The relevance of the author's approach is determined by the inclusion of research in the communicative paradigm. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the communicative codes of professional Internet communities. To achieve this goal, the authors, using the methods of discursive, semantic and contextual analysis, investigated the descriptions and rules of the selected professional groups, finding: (1) lexico-grammatical and stylistic features of texts; (2) communicative norms and taboos, explicated in texts; (3) correlation of these norms with universal communicative principles of cooperation and politeness and their individual maxims. The novelty of the approach is provided by the chosen object: scientific and pedagogical Internet communities have not previously received a comprehensive description. The results achieved during the study allowed us to formulate significant conclusions: (1) at the new stage of research in the field of Internet communication, a differentiating approach is needed to detect the specifics of various platforms; (2) research on professional communication should be supplemented by observations of the open communicative space that is being formed in social networks; (3) Internet communities demonstrate the processes of communicative normogenesis, self-organization and self-regulation of the communicative space; (4) the language design of communicative codes is not regulated and gives authors (community administrators) freedom of action; 5) codes of professional Internet communities go back to the principles of cooperation and politeness, while most of the maxims are not explicated and constitute a normative communicative background, others (for example, maxims of relevance, tact and sympathy) are specifically stipulated.
Popular culture is saturated with claims about a science of human life. Demographics are said to predict how we will vote; chemicals in our brains, who we'll date; game-like scenarios, how we'll spend our money; and genes, what we will think. This text explores this flood of scientism as it has spread in the last fifty years into almost all facets of daily existence. Readers will discover how popular pseudoscience has radically changed the world we live in, including spheres as different as dating, economics, politics, and artificial intelligence.
The proliferation of user-generated content on social networks and websites has heightened the significance of sentiment analysis, also known as opinion mining, as a critical tool for comprehending people's attitudes toward various topics. Aspect-level sentiment analysis, which considers specific aspects or features of texts, provides a more comprehensive view of sentiment analysis. The aspect-level approach encompasses both explicit and implicit aspects, where explicit aspects are readily mentioned in texts while implicit aspects are implied or inferred from contextual clues. Despite the significance of implicit aspects in the overall review, previous research has predominantly focused on explicit aspect extraction. Limited attention has been given to the extraction of implicit aspects, despite their potential impact on capturing the complete sentiment picture of texts. Therefore, this study aims to find an aspect extraction solution capable of identifying and extracting both explicit and implicit aspects from texts. This study compares various machine and deep learning models on the SemEval-2014 and SemEval-2016 restaurant datasets. The experimental analysis demonstrates that the proposed Aspect-BiLSTM model emerged as the best-performing model, achieving high accuracy in classifying both explicit and implicit aspects, with 92.9% accuracy for the 2014 and 90.7% accuracy for the 2016 datasets. Notably, the proposed solution was able to capture multiple aspects of texts, making it more robust and versatile. This study highlights the efficacy of the Aspect-BiLSTM model for aspect extraction, which will give valuable insights into the advancement of aspect-level sentiment analysis. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2024-08-01-05 Full Text: PDF
In the context of US urban social problems, links among globalization, immigration, & urban social relations are explored. At the heart of this linkage is an economic restructuring across societies & in the city that has potent social consequences for immigrant populations. Such people, induced to migrate by changing economic circumstances, find growing ghettoization, isolation, & cultural antipathies in their new settings. In the new globality, immigrant populations are commonly fingered as the invasive Other, ominously threatening time-tested social norms & economic principles. Adapted from the source document.
The situation of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a new and exacerbated number of old social problems, including social inequality, the growth of social aggression, and the upscaling of agonal communication in Runet. One of the new conflict-generating points is the attitude towards vaccination, which divided people into pro-vaxxers and anti-vaxxers. In order to develop the strategies for community response to socially dangerous activities of anti-vaxxers, it is necessary to rely on scientific data obtained as a result of analysis of vaccination opponents' argumentation system and discourse description. The paper reveals the main arguments of anti-vaxxers and presents the linguistic-and-legal problems that arise in Internet communication while discussing the topic of vaccinations against COVID-19. For the explication of aggressive rhetoric, a content analysis of the largest group of anti-vaxxers "The COVID-Resistance Movement" on the VKontakte social network was carried out. In addition to highlighting and describing the most common arguments of anti-vaccinationists, examples of complex (moral and metaphysical) aggressive arguments were given (after the concept of H. Kusse). Aggressive verbal behaviour in some cases leads to a direct violation of the law – both new articles of the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation related to the COVID-19 pandemic (for example, on misinformation), and traditional articles related to agonal communication (for example, extremism and racism).
Purpose: a comprehensive philosophical study of social policy as a legal phenomenon, the study of its political and social components.Methodology: The research for the philosophical specifics axiologically legal features of social policy used scientific methods of analysis, synthesis - for the study of fundamental concepts; historical method - to summarize the «justice» of the concept as a component of social policy.Findings: considered especially philosophical concept of «social policy», shows the social and legal foundations of this phenomenon; listed components of social policy.Originality: social policy first considered as a derivative of social justice; defined levels and features of social policy in the Ukrainian society.Practical value: articles materials can be used in the study of these disciplines - philosophy, sociology, political science, law, and others. ; Цель: комплексное философское исследование социальной политики как правового явления, изучение его политико-социальных составляющих.Методика: для исследования философской специфики аксиологически-правовых особенностей социальной политики использовались общенаучные методы: анализ, синтез – для изучения фундаментальных понятий; исторический метод – для обобщения понятия «справедливость» как составляющей социальной политики.Результати: рассмотрены философские особенности понятия «социальная политика», показаны социально-правовые основы данного феномена; указаны составляющие социальной политики.Научная новизна: впервые рассмотрена социальная политика как производная социальной справедливости; определены уровни и особенности социальной политики в украинском обществе.Практическая значимость: материалы статьи могут быть использованы при изучении таких дисциплин – философия, социология, политология, правоведение и др. ; Мета: комплексне філософське дослідження соціальної політики як правового явища, вивчення його політико-соціальних складових. Методика: для дослідження філософської специфіки аксіологічно-правових особливостей соціальної політики використовувались загально-наукові методи: аналіз, синтез – для вивчення фундаментальних понять; історичний метод – для узагальнення поняття «справедливість» як складової соціальної політики. Результати: розглянуто філософські особливості поняття «соціальна політика», показано соціально-правові засади даного феномена; зазначено складові соціальної політики.Наукова новизна: вперше розглянуто соціальну політику як похідну соціальної справедливості; визначено рівні та особливості соціальної політики в українському суспільстві.Практична значущість: матеріали статті можуть бути використаними при вивченні таких дисциплін – філософія, соціологія, політологія, правознавство та ін.
