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Interest-driven Activities
Interest-driven activities are the ways that people pursue their personal interests, hobbies, and passions. In recent years, educators and researchers, practitioners have taken up this term to refer to activities online. Participants create and share content to fuel these communities, in contrast to merely consuming content. Interest-driven activities are distinct from purely political networks as well as purely social, friendship-driven activities, such as using social networks. Rates of interest-driven activities About one-third of youth surveyed in 2011 engage in interest-driven activities on a weekly basis. These activities include posting comments, reviews and critiques, create one's own media to share online, and giving help or suggestions to others. Link to civic engagement Youth engaged in interest-driven activities online are simultaneously gaining "knowledge, skills, and networks, or what we call digital social capital, which increases their levels of political activity." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Networks
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics. Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations". Jacob Moreno is credited with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Participatory Politics
Stephen Rosskamm Shalom is a professor of political science at William Paterson University where he has taught since 1977. He is a writer on social and political issues and is a contributor to Znet and '' Democratic Left''. He is on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and the journal '' New Politics''. Shalom earned his Bachelor's degree from M.I.T., and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University. Publications He is the author of numerous publications on the Philippines and other political topics including ''Which Side Are You On?: An Introduction to Politics'' (Longman, 2002), ''Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention After the Cold War'' (South End Press, 1993), ''Deaths in China due to communism propaganda versus reality'' (1984); ''The United States and the Philippines: A Study of Neocolonialism'' (1981); co-editor of ''The Philippines Reader'' (South End Press, 1987), ''Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Participatory Cultures
Citizen Participation or Public Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions—and ideally exert influence—regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions. Participatory decision-making can take place along any realm of human social activity, including economic (i.e. participatory economics), political (i.e. participatory democracy or parpolity), management (i.e. participatory management), cultural (i.e. polyculturalism) or familial (i.e. feminism). For well-informed participation to occur, it is argued that some version of transparency, e.g. radical transparency, is necessary but not sufficient. It has also been argued that those most affected by a decision should have the most say while those that are least affected should have the least say in a topic. Classifying participation Sherry Arnstein discusses eight types of participation in ''A Ladder of Citizen Participation'' (1969). Often termed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
