Social construct theory says that humans create constructs in order tomake sense of the objective world. One way humans create social constructs is by structuring what they see and experience into categories. For example, they see people with different skin colors and other physical features and cr...
Looks at information systems as social constructs of an information society in relation to information system practice with communication theory in professional communication. Model of interrelations between communication inputs, process, and impact; Intranet implementation.Irani...
Introduction to the Special Issue: Social Construct Within an Information Society. Looks at information systems as social constructs of an information society in relation to information system practice with communication theory in profess... Irani,Zahir,Pouloudi,... - 《IEEE Transactions on ...
Then, on the Scholars’ panel, we explore the Science of Compassion. What is it and how does it impact society? Can we learn to be compassionate? [ dur: 35mins. ] Iain Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Socia...
that the key factor was the official intervention in guiding public opinion. Therefore, January 29, the day when the official intervention began, was set as the boundary, and a dummy variable measuring the effect of the official intervention was set up in order to construct a more suitable ...
We applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) as the modeling framework of this study, shown in Fig. 1, involves a latent variable of e-shopping attitudes during the pandemic. The purpose of the EFA was to construct the structure of the potential underlying latent variables. EFA was performed ...
(I would add the caveat that the GOP is happy to construct its fortresses at the level of individual states – the federal structure of US governance allows them to build a national “vetocracy” while building regional power bases at state level. This further allows the electoral biases ...
In recent years, the proportion of China’s elderly population has been increasing substantially and is predicted to become a major issue for Chinese society in the future. At the end of 2019, China’s population aged 60 years and above reached 253.88 million, accounting for 18.1% of the tot...
For example, employees may be worried that knowledge sharing brings a threat to their own status and the shared knowledge cannot be rationally utilized by others because of other’s lack of ability (Fang, 2017) [19]. There are also knowledge-hiding behaviors. In social interactions, employees ...
s fight against COVID-19)’. The vloggers also made extensive intertextual references to social media cultures and incorporated Chinese netspeak originating in Chinese-speaking social media such as Weibo or WeChat. For example, ITA called her boyfriend who also appeared in the videos ‘little ...