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Framing: toward clarification of a fractured paradigm’’,
- Journal of Communication
, 1993
"... In response to the proposition that communication lacks disciplinary status because of deficient core knowledge, I propose that we turn an ostensible weakness into a strength. We should identify our mission as bringing together insights and theories that would otherwise remain scattered in other di ..."
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its omnipresence across the social sciences and humanities, nowhere is there a general statement of framing theory that shows exactly how frames become embedded within and make themselves manifest in a text, or how framing influences thinking. Analysis of this concept suggests how the discipline
The concept of power
- Behavioral Science
, 1957
"... What is “power”? Most people have an intuitive notion of what it means. But scientists have not yet formulated a statement of the concept of power that is rigorous enough to be of use in the sys-tematic study of this important social phenomenon. Power is here defined in terms of a relation between p ..."
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be easy to show, too, how the word and its synonyms are evcrywhere embedded in the languagc of civilized peoples, often in subtly different ways: power, influence, con-
Embeddedness in the making of financial capital: How social relations and networks benefit firms seeking financing
- American Sociological Review
, 1999
"... I investigate how social embeddedness affects an organization’s acquisition and cost of financial capital in middle-market banking—a lucrative but un-derstudied financial sector. Using existing theory and original fieldwork, I develop a framework to explain how embeddedness can influence which firms ..."
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I investigate how social embeddedness affects an organization’s acquisition and cost of financial capital in middle-market banking—a lucrative but un-derstudied financial sector. Using existing theory and original fieldwork, I develop a framework to explain how embeddedness can influence which
From factors to actors: Computational sociology and agent-based modeling
- Annual Review of Sociology
, 2002
"... s Abstract Sociologists often model social processes as interactions among variables. We review an alternative approach that models social life as interactions among adaptive agents who influence one another in response to the influence they receive. These agent-based models (ABMs) show how simple ..."
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s Abstract Sociologists often model social processes as interactions among variables. We review an alternative approach that models social life as interactions among adaptive agents who influence one another in response to the influence they receive. These agent-based models (ABMs) show how simple
On Social Networks and Collaborative Recommendation
"... Social network systems, like last.fm, play a significant role in Web 2.0, containing large amounts of multimedia-enriched data that are enhanced both by explicit user-provided annotations and implicit aggregated feedback describing the personal preferences of each user. It is also a common tendency ..."
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into account both the social annotation and friendships inherent in the social graph established among users, items and tags, we created a collaborative recommendation system that effectively adapts to the personal information needs of each user. We adopt the generic framework of Random Walk with Restarts
Patterns of influence in a recommendation network,”
- Proc. 10th Pacific-Asia Conf. on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD),
, 2006
"... Abstract. Information cascades are phenomena whereby individuals adopt a new action or idea due to influence by others. As such a process spreads through an underlying social network, it can result in widespread adoption overall. We consider information cascades in the context of recommendations, a ..."
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Abstract. Information cascades are phenomena whereby individuals adopt a new action or idea due to influence by others. As such a process spreads through an underlying social network, it can result in widespread adoption overall. We consider information cascades in the context of recommendations
Influential Nodes in a Diffusion Model for Social Networks
- IN ICALP
, 2005
"... We study the problem of maximizing the expected spread of an innovation or behavior within a social network, in the presence of "word-of-mouth" referral. Our work builds on the observation that individuals' decisions to purchase a product or adopt an innovation are strongly influe ..."
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influenced by recommendations from their friends and acquaintances. Understanding
The Internet and social life
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (2007) 1143–1168 ª 2007 International Communication Association1165
, 2004
"... ABSTRACT—Much of social life is experienced through mental processes that are not intended and about which one is fairly oblivious. These processes are automatically triggered by features of the immediate social environment, such as the group memberships of other people, the quali-ties of their beha ..."
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-ties of their behavior, and features of social situations (e.g., norms, one’s relative power). Recent research has shown these nonconscious influences to extend beyond the per-ception and interpretation of the social world to the actual guidance, over extended time periods, of one’s important goal pursuits and social
Social anxiety and self presentation: A conceptualization and model
- PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
, 1982
"... This article presents a self-presentation approach to the study of social anxiety that proposes that social anxiety arises when people are motivated to make a preferred impression on real or imagined audiences but doubt they will do so, and thus perceive or imagine unsatisfactory evaluative reaction ..."
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reactions from subjectively important audiences. We presume that specific situational and dispositional antecedents of social anxiety operate by influencing people's motivation to impress others and their expectations of satisfactorily doing so. In contrast to drive models of anxiety but consistent
Social Analyses of Computing: Theoretical Perspectives in Recent
- Empirical Research. Computing Surveys
, 1980
"... Recent empirical studies of computing use in organizations and in public life are examined. The roles of computer technologies in the workplace, in decision making, in altering power relationships, and in influencing personal privacy are examined. In addition, studies that examine the social account ..."
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Recent empirical studies of computing use in organizations and in public life are examined. The roles of computer technologies in the workplace, in decision making, in altering power relationships, and in influencing personal privacy are examined. In addition, studies that examine the social
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