Modeling Dynamical Influence in Human Interaction: Using data to make better inferences about influence within social systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Pan ◽  
Wen Dong ◽  
M. Cebrian ◽  
Taemie Kim ◽  
J. H. Fowler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Using Data

Co-Adaptation: Adaptive Behavior of Systems

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Edward Hust
Keyword(s):  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
General Notion ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Game Situation ◽  
Interpersonal Adjustment ◽  
Sociometric Ratings

This study revitalized thinking about human interaction as “co-adaptation” or processes of interpersonal adjustment derived from the developing organization of one's social systems. Using this model, certain social behaviors could be predicted from the interplay of structural forces of status in a given system. Peer groupings of children in special education were constructed of either average or widely divergent statuses, based upon sociometric ratings among classmates. These experimental groups were independently engaged in a game situation in which competition and cooperation were alternative coping strategies. Behavioral expressions of co-adaptation, gauged along dimensions of productivity and cohesiveness, were quantified from videotapes of each group's participation. The contrasted groups behaved differently across trials, mostly in keeping with differential predictions for structural dynamics and inferred “atmospheres.” The relevance of the construct of co-adaptation to a variety of social systems and to the general notion of adaptive behavior was discussed.

scholarly journals EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE DISCOURSE OF CEBONG VS KAMPRET (‘TADPOLE VS MICROBATS’) ON TWITTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ahmad Fadly
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Social ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Using Data

As an interactive social media, Twitter gives significat role in creating social systems. Evaluative language was intensively used on the social media. The Cebong vs Kampret issue coloured on Twitter and polarized people. By using data Tweet and Reply from Twitter during 2019 this researcher investigates evaluative language. This research results that Twitter community were very emotionally force and defense on the Cebong vs Kampret issue, depicted from many evaluative languages classified into subsystem attitude. Subsystem graduation was also intensively used in accordance to that issue. It means that Twitter community emphasized on semantic scale in evaluating things and person.

scholarly journals Ethical Applications of Big Data-Driven AI on Social Systems: Literature Analysis and Example Deployment Use Case

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Paulo Garcia ◽  
Francine Darroch ◽  
Leah West ◽  
Lauren BrooksCleator
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Computing ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Ongoing Research

The use of technological solutions to address the production of goods and offering of services is ubiquitous. Health and social issues, however, have only slowly been permeated by technological solutions. Whilst several advances have been made in health in recent years, the adoption of technology to combat social problems has lagged behind. In this paper, we explore Big Data-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to social systems; i.e., social computing, the concept of artificial intelligence as an enabler of novel social solutions. Through a critical analysis of the literature, we elaborate on the social and human interaction aspects of technology that must be in place to achieve such enabling and address the limitations of the current state of the art in this regard. We review cultural, political, and other societal impacts of social computing, impact on vulnerable groups, and ethically-aligned design of social computing systems. We show that this is not merely an engineering problem, but rather the intersection of engineering with health sciences, social sciences, psychology, policy, and law. We then illustrate the concept of ethically-designed social computing with a use case of our ongoing research, where social computing is used to support safety and security in home-sharing settings, in an attempt to simultaneously combat youth homelessness and address loneliness in seniors, identifying the risks and potential rewards of such a social computing application.

scholarly journals Dynamic calibration of agent-based models using data assimilation

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 150703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Ward ◽  
Andrew J. Evans ◽  
Nicolas S. Malleson
Keyword(s):  
Data Assimilation ◽  
Ensemble Kalman Filter ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Dynamical Behaviour ◽  
Agent Based Models ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
Complex Social Systems ◽  
Using Data

A widespread approach to investigating the dynamical behaviour of complex social systems is via agent-based models (ABMs). In this paper, we describe how such models can be dynamically calibrated using the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF), a standard method of data assimilation. Our goal is twofold. First, we want to present the EnKF in a simple setting for the benefit of ABM practitioners who are unfamiliar with it. Second, we want to illustrate to data assimilation experts the value of using such methods in the context of ABMs of complex social systems and the new challenges these types of model present. We work towards these goals within the context of a simple question of practical value: how many people are there in Leeds (or any other major city) right now? We build a hierarchy of exemplar models that we use to demonstrate how to apply the EnKF and calibrate these using open data of footfall counts in Leeds.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Policies on Self-Reliance Incentives for Roma in Central and Eastern Europe

Ekonomika ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Milcher ◽  
Katarína Zigová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Transfers ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we review the social systems in five European countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. We focus here on regulations towards households with insufficient income. Based on this, we analyse the impact of social transfers on self-reliance incentives of the Roma minority in particular, using data from the UNDP/ILO survey conducted in 2001 in the five countries.

scholarly journals The complexity of non-sense making: a proposal of complex medical sociology of mental disorders.

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Manuel Torres Cubeiro
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Medical Sociology ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Autonomous Community ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Mental Disorder Diagnosis

The article describes social complexity of the biographical accounts of those connected with a mental disorder diagnosis in Galicia, a Northwest Spanish Autonomous Community. 147 biographies associated with Mental Disorders diagnosis (MD) have been collected and gathered in three groups differently linked to these conditions. Our first group has lived with a diagnosis of MD for at least 10 years (65 interviews and data from 300 people). Our second cluster of people shares their lives with those with a MD diagnosis mainly with a family relative bound (19 interviews and data from 300 families). Our third group, gathers Galician mental health medical professionals from three mental health units and other mental health facilities which medically and administratively manage people with a MD diagnosis and their relatives (63 biographies). Using data from these biographies, we have constructed three interconnected biographical profiles early published (Torres Cubeiro 2009b) using a social systems theory approach based in Niklas Luhmann sociology.

Communicating & Relating

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Arundale
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language And Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Talk ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Research

Communicating & Relating offers an account of how relating with one another emerges in communicating in everyday interacting. Prior work has indicated that human relationships arise in human communicating, and some studies have made arguments for why that is the case. Communicating & Relating moves beyond this work to offer an account of how both relating and face emerge in everyday talk and conduct: what comprises human communicating, what defines human social systems, how the social and the individual are linked in human life, and what comprises human relating and face. Part 1 develops the Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating to address the question “How do participants constitute turns, actions, and meanings in everyday interacting?” Part 2 argues that the processes of constituting what is known cross-culturally as “face” are the processes of constituting relating, and develops Face Constituting Theory to address the question “How do participants constitute relating in everyday interacting?” The answers to both questions are grounded in evidence from everyday talk and conduct. Communicating & Relating is an invitation to engage its alternative account in research on communicating, relating, and face in language and social interaction. Like other volumes in the Foundations of Human Interaction series, Communicating & Relating offers new perspectives and new research on communicative interaction and on human relationships as key elements of human sociality.

Global Networks and Local Societies: Cities in the Information Age

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Castells
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
The One

Cities are a major source of intellectual creativity and political engagement. We have not finished, and we will never finish, understanding the transformation of cities and the impact of this transformation on society and culture at large. The focus for this chapter is what I would call the great twenty-first century urban paradox—an urban world without cities. Let me try to explain first, and then go into the details of the analysis. I would say that cities have been throughout history sources of cultural creativity, technological innovation, material progress and political democratization. By bringing together people of multicultural origins and by establishing communication channels and systems of cooperation, cities have induced synergy from diversity, dynamic stability from competition, order from chaos. However, with the coming of the information age cities as specific social systems seem to be challenged by the related processes of globalization and informationalization. New communication technologies appear to supersede the functional need for spatial proximity as the basis for economic efficiency and personal interaction. The emergence of a global economy and of global communication systems subdue the local to the global, blurring social meaning and hampering political control traditionally exercised from and by localities. Flows seem to overwhelm places as human interaction increasingly relies on electronic communication networks. Therefore, cities as specific forms of social organization and cultural expression, materially rooted in spatially concentrated human settlements, could be made obsolete in the new technological environment. Yet, the paradox is that with the coming of the techno-economic system, urbanization— simply understood as spatial concentration—is in fact accelerated. We are reaching a predominantly urban world, which before 2005 will include for the first time in history at least 50 per cent of the planet’s population in cities. Core activities and a growing proportion of people are and will be concentrated in multimillion metropolitan regions. This pattern of social–spatial evolution could lead to what I call urbanization without cities. As, on the one hand, people concentrate in spatial settlements, at the same time suburban sprawl defuses people and activities in a very wide metropolitan span.

scholarly journals Surfing the complex interaction between new technology and norms: A resistance or resilience issue? Insights by the Viable System Approach (VSA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Sergio Barile ◽  
Cristina Simone ◽  
Antonio La Sala ◽  
Marcelo Enrique Conti
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
System Approach ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Dyadic Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Viable System

The paper investigates the complex interaction between technological innovation and norms: a crucial dynamic to facing the severe challenges of the Anthropocene.On the one hand, the sedimentation of norms acts as the genetic memory of a society. Allowing a reduction in the uncertainty of human condition and ensuring greater predictability of human interaction, the set of norms tend to activate a system of constraints that normalize and legitimate technological innovations.On the other hand, technological innovation is one of the most unpredictable and non-linear sources of change. It demands legitimization for what in the past were excluded or prohibited a priori (e.g. behaviors, ethics): this may trigger a “decoupling” process from the extant set of norms. Nevertheless, what decoupling should be legitimized? A wicked problem arises, and forking paths emerge in the socio-economic landscape.Leading the tension between new technology (source of unpredictability) and the taken-for-granted norms (source of predictability) is crucial if the aim is to linking effectiveness and efficiency to viable sustainability. While the (still dominant) cartesian approach considers norms and new technology as separate elements of the social system, system thinking enlightens the interaction between them. This helps to unveil hidden options/feedbacks in the decoupling-recoupling process between technological innovation and the evolution of norms enriching the information variety of the decision-makers (policy makers, citizens, urban planners, etc.).The dynamics that govern this dyad, however, are not linear: norms, in fact, do not have the same reactivity to absorb (recouple) the change triggered by new technologies (decoupling from the extant set of norms).Although the relevance of the issue, it has been often neglected, or at least not taken in the right consideration. Therefore, aiming to investigate this dyadic relationship, the paper focuses on the ambiguous role technology plays in enabling resilience: sometimes it acts as a resilience amplifier; sometimes it is a resilience inhibitor (and even a steel cage); sometimes it provokes an undesirable deviation from the taken-for-granted codified rules.In particular, aiming to contribute in filling this gap, and rooting in the Viable System Approach (VSA), the paper investigates why and how in some cases the interaction between technological innovation and norms leads to resistance towards change or acts as a resilience amplifier in other cases.The paper is structured as follows: after an Introduction underlying the need to understanding the increasing tension between new technology and norms, Section 2 deals with the contribution of the VSA in understanding the social systems; then, rooting in the VSA and moving from the concept of information variety, Section 3 frames the complex interplay between new technology and taken-for-granted norms as one of the most dramatic “resistance-resilience” issue of the Anthropocene era; Section 4 proposes a more comprehensive framework discussing the range “resilience-resistance-vulnerability” and presents final reflections.

scholarly journals From Patterns to Freefall: Exposing the Vulnerability of Human Predicament in the Times of the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 5889-5896
Author(s):  
Dr. Swapna Gopinath
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Predicament ◽  
The World ◽  
The Times ◽  
New Social Order

COVID-19 demands a paradigm shift in modes of human interaction and challenges hegemonic social structures to adapt and evolve themselves to the altered reality of human existence. Across the world, these shifts have been triggered by the new social order threatening to erase existing social systems. My paper attempts to look at the lives of the precariats, caught up within neoliberal structures, assuming these structures to be hegemonic normative systems, and the manner in which they refuse to change, thereby putting the precariats into a more exploitative crisis situation, dehumanizing them, demonizing them, thereby risking their erasure from the socio-political and legal systems that rule the world. I have used the context of India to substantiate my argument. My paper is divided into the following sections: a reading into the concept of precarity and contextualizing it in the neoliberal framework, analysing the pandemic against precarity using examples from Indian society.

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