This study examines the effects of political/cultural beliefs and situational perceptions on public support for government surveillance amidst COVID-19, using a representative survey conducted in ...Hong Kong. Our results indicate that situational responses (i.e. privacy trust and self-efficacy) balance against each other in mediating the effects of political/cultural beliefs (i.e. political trust, political efficacy, democratic-individualism) and situational perceptions (i.e. perceived cost and benefit of disclosure, perceived threat of COVID-19) on surveillance support. Both perceived benefit of disclosure and political trust positively affects surveillance support indirectly by promoting the contributing mediator privacy trust while suppressing the inhibiting mediator privacy self-efficacy. Perceived cost of disclosure shows no direct effect, but a positive indirect effect on surveillance support by suppressing privacy self-efficacy; perceived threat shows a positive direct effect while a negative indirect effect by suppressing privacy trust. Internal political efficacy shows a strong negative direct effect, but no indirect effect; and external political efficacy shows a negative indirect effect by promoting privacy self-efficacy. Alternative media use, as a proxy for democratic-individualism, mitigates situational perceptions' effects on surveillance support, regardless of the directions. The findings advance our understanding of the formation process of public opinion on government surveillance.
This study examines the phenomenon of cyberbullying on Facebook and how it is related to school bullying among secondary school students in Singapore, aged 13–17. We also focus on generic use of ...Facebook and risky Facebook behaviors as the predictors of cyberbullying and victimization on Facebook. 1676 secondary students, from two secondary schools, participated in a pen and paper survey. The findings show that the intensity of Facebook use and engagement in risky Facebook behaviors were related to Facebook victimization and Facebook bullying, respectively. Moderately strong positive relationships between school bullying and Facebook bullying, as well as between school victimization and Facebook victimization, were also uncovered.
Small Talk Grooming Škorić, Marko; Rajačić, Ana Bilinović; Kišjuhas, Aleksej
Anthropos,
01/2019, Letnik:
114, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article analyzes the biosocial origins of gossip by pointing to its significant social and evolutionary functions. Along with the problems of defining it, the article deals with gossip’s bad ...reputation and analyzes sociocultural functions of gossip and small talk as mechanisms of social comparison, as well as means of transferring cultural norms, values, and rules. Furthermore, it offers a detailed analysis of gossip as an evolutionary phenomenon that represents a unique form of social grooming among humans and performs the function of strengthening social ties and social cohesion. Finally, the gossip is portrayed as a means of spreading adaptive information concerning status, resources, and sex.
This study examines the phenomena of political unfriending and content removal on social media in three Western democracies—France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We seek to understand ...the role of crosscutting discussion, confrontational discussion style, and ideological extremity in triggering unfriending and content removal on social media, while shedding light on cross-country differences. The findings show that selective avoidance behaviors are much more common in the United States than either in France or the United Kingdom. They also show that crosscutting discussion and confrontational style are the predictors of selective avoidance across all the above countries, while ideological extremity plays a role in the United States only. We suggest that while social media provide opportunities for citizens to engage in discussions with people with dissimilar political views and socioeconomic backgrounds, they also allow them to easily reestablish more homophilous environments via content removal and tie dissolution.
The article discusses human groupings from the perspective of social geometry, i.e., social numbers and their significance in social life. It offers a generalized and interdisciplinary analysis of ...one as a social zero, then of social numbers two, three, and four, as well as of larger numbers. Furthermore, this article discusses the basic forms of sociality and special emphasis is put on qualitative changes that occur through quantitative changes in the social number of configurations. This is achieved through the accumulated scientific knowledge of human evolutionary history and its influence on human groupings.
Ovaj rad ima za cilj pokušati rekonceptualizirati, rezimirati i analizirati glavna naslijeđa brazilskog filozofa i edukatora Paula Freirea i prikazati njegov značaj za socijalni rad. S obzirom na to ...da se mali broj autora bavio ovom temom, rad prije svega teži pružiti koherentniji okvir već istraženih Freireovih ideja u kontekstu socijalnog rada. Naime, prikazat će se na koji način njegove ideje poput kritičke pedagogije, refleksivne prakse, kritičkog razmišljanja, dijaloga, osnaživanja, reciprociteta i mnoge druge, utječu na praksu socijalnog rada. Naime, spomenute Freireove ideje koje su relevantne za kontekst socijalnog rada grupirane su u tri područja: (1) kritički socijalni rad, osnaživanje i preispitivanje pozicije socijalnog rada u društvu, (2) ideje koje se mogu koristiti za rekonceptualizaciju odnosa socijalnog radnika i korisnika i (3) ideje koje idu u pravcu promišljanja o rastu i razvoju socijalnih radnika kao profesionalaca. Nakon analize spomenutih pojmova i područja, na kraju rada ostavljen je prostor za ocjenu relevantnosti Freireovih teorijskih okvira u cilju razvoja ključnih kompetencija profesije socijalnog rada koje su usmjerene na dijalog, progresivne društvene promjene i općenito cjelokupan socijalni razvoj, kao i za izazove u kontekstu suvremenog socijalnog rada.
Ovaj rad ima za cilj pokušati rekonceptualizirati, rezimirati i analizirati glavna naslijeđa brazilskog filozofa i edukatora Paula Freirea i prikazati njegov značaj za socijalni rad. S obzirom na to ...da se mali broj autora bavio ovom temom, rad prije svega teži pružiti koherentniji okvir već istraženih Freireovih ideja u kontekstu socijalnog rada. Naime, prikazat će se na koji način njegove ideje poput kritičke pedagogije, refleksivne prakse, kritičkog razmišljanja, dijaloga, osnaživanja, reciprociteta i mnoge druge, utječu na praksu socijalnog rada. Naime, spomenute Freireove ideje koje su relevantne za kontekst socijalnog rada grupirane su u tri područja: (1) kritički socijalni rad, osnaživanje i preispitivanje pozicije socijalnog rada u društvu, (2) ideje koje se mogu koristiti za re-konceptualizaciju odnosa socijalnog radnika i korisnika i (3) ideje koje idu u pravcu promišljanja o rastu i razvoju socijalnih radnika kao profesionalaca. Nakon analize spomenutih pojmova i područja, na kraju rada ostavljen je prostor za ocjenu relevantnosti Freireovih teorijskih okvira u cilju razvoja ključnih kompetencija profesije socijalnog rada koje su usmjerene na dijalog, progresivne društvene promjene i općenito cjelokupan socijalni razvoj, kao i za izazove u kontekstu suvremenog socijalnog rada.
One of the democratic promises of social media relies on the expectation that citizens will be exposed to more diverse sources of information and will consequently be more likely to encounter views ...that challenge their beliefs and opinions. Still, recent evidence suggests that although social media may increase exposure to difference, citizen also take active steps to reduce the dissonance they encounter by engaging in selective avoidance tactics such as political unfriending and unfollowing. We report the findings from the first comparative study of political unfriending conducted in Asia, which analyzes survey data from two Chinese societies, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We find that political interest, political discussion network size, and political discussion with distant others all predict the likelihood of engaging in selective avoidance on social media. The results also suggest that political interest is a stronger predictor of unfriending in Hong Kong, while social and psychological factors play a more important role in Taiwan.
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