scholarly journals Social Network, Interpersonal Communication System and Loneliness- the Living Situation of Networked Individuals in Mainland China

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Living Situation

Gender Differences in Intentional Social Action: We-Intention to Engage in Social Network-Facilitated Team Collaboration

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Xl Shen ◽  
Matthew Ko Lee ◽  
Christy Mk Cheung ◽  
Huaping Chen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Team Collaboration ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Anticipated Emotions

The growth and popularity of Web 2.0 applications help people to build and maintain their social networks online and further encourage social network-facilitated team collaboration. In this study, we conceptualized the use of Instant messaging in social network-facilitated team collaboration as an Intentional social action and further Investigated the effect of gender differences In the development of we-intention (I. e. collective intention) to engage In such collaboration. A research model was developed and empirically tested with 482 university students In Mainland China. The results demonstrated that the effects of attitude, positive anticipated emotions, and group norms on we-intention were more Important for men, whereas the effects of social Identity and negative anticipated emotions were more significant for women to collectively participate In social network-facilitated team collaboration. We believe the Implications of this study would shed considerable light on both research and practice.

scholarly journals Multidimensional Data Analysis of Location Based Social Network

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 797
Author(s):  
Shaik Mastan Vali ◽  
P. Sujatha
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Multidimensional Data ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Location Based Social Network ◽  
Informal Communities ◽  
Central Belief

Long range interpersonal communication benefits gather data on clients' social contacts, make an expansive interrelated informal organization, and open to clients how they are connected to others in the system. The basic of an OSN contains of customized client profiles, which for the most part encase interests (e.g. bought in intrigue gatherings), perceiving data (e.g. name and photograph), and individual contacts (e.g. rundown of connected clients, alleged "companions"). The ability to accumulate and inspect such information conveys particular chances to perceive the central belief systems of interpersonal organizations, their creation, movement and attributes. These sorts of informal communities are classified to be specific scholarly, general and area based interpersonal organizations. In this paper, we concentrated on the area based interpersonal organizations. Here, we investigations the diverse kinds of information that utilizations in area based interpersonal organizations and furthermore examine the effect of online datasets on neighborhood based interpersonal organization.   

Converging evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-290
Author(s):  
Russell Richie ◽  
Matthew L. Hall ◽  
Pyeong Whan Cho ◽  
Marie Coppola
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Experimental Demonstration ◽  
Computational Simulations ◽  
Referring Expressions ◽  
Social Network Structure ◽  
Human Participants

Abstract New languages emerge through interactions among people, yet the role of social network structure in language emergence is not clear, despite research from experimental semiotics, observational fieldwork, and computational modeling. To better understand the effects of social network structure on the formation of conventional referring expressions, we use a silent gesture paradigm that combines the methodological control of experimental semiotics and computational simulations with the naturalistic affordances of the human body, physical environment, and interpersonal communication. We elicited gestural referring expressions from hearing participants randomly assigned to either a richly- or sparsely-connected communicative network. Results demonstrate greater conventionalization among participants in the richly-connected condition, although this effect disappears after accounting for between-condition differences in overall number of communicative interactions. These results provide the first experimental demonstration that communicative network structure causally impacts the conventionalization of referring expressions in human participants, using a communicative modality in which human language naturally arises.

scholarly journals The antecedents and consequences of employees’ followership behavior in social network organizational context: a longitudinal study

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Xu ◽  
Tonghua Yang ◽  
Ruliang Guo ◽  
Wenyuan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Training Set ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

AbstractThe social network is a social structure made up of individuals who are tied by social links. With the rapid development of information technology, online social networking services and microblogging service received a lot of attention. Social networks provide a comprehensive communication platform of interaction, knowledge sharing, information dissemination to people, etc. They also bring a significant impact on people’s working style and interpersonal communication. Drawing from trait theory, regulatory focus theory, followership theory, political skills, self-construal theory, and performance theory, this study systematically investigates the antecedents that induce the difference in followership behavior and the different consequences of behavior on job performance. We introduce a novel hybrid similarity measure, and the best matching based supervised learning process is conducted for training the time series. The events before the current timestamp can be adopted as a training set, and an early predictor will be generated by learning the rules from the training set. The newly coming events will be used for verifying the predictor, or assessing and tuning it. This paper clarifies the antecedents’ mechanism for differences in followership behavior and the consequence mechanism that followership behavior differently impacts job performance.

scholarly journals The Role of Emoticons in the Comprehension of Emotional and Non-emotional Messages in Dyslexic Youth – A Preliminary Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Leśniak ◽  
Szczepan J. Grzybowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
Pertinent Question ◽  
Verbal Content ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Short Messages

The study explored how well-dyslexic youth deals with written messages in an environment simulating popular social network communication system. The messaging systems, present more and more in pandemic and post-pandemic online world, are rich in nonverbal aspects of communicating, namely, the emoticons. The pertinent question was whether the presence of emoticons in written messages of emotional and non-emotional content changes the comprehension of the messages. Thirty-two pupils aged 11–15 took part in the study, 16 had a school-approved diagnosis of dyslexia and were included in the experimental group. Sixteen controls had no diagnosed disabilities. Both groups viewed short messages of four types (each including seven communicates): verbal-informative (without emoticons and emotional verbal content), verbal-emotive (without emoticons, with emotional verbal content), emoticon-informative (including emoticon-like small pictures, but without emotional content either verbal or nonverbal), and emoticon-emotive (with standard emoticons and including verbal-emotional content). The participants had to answer short questions after quick presentation of each message that tested their comprehension of the content. RTs and accuracy of the answers were analyzed. Students without dyslexia had shorter response times to the questions regarding all types of messages than the dyslexic participants. The answers of the experimental group to the questions about the emoticon-informative messages were less correct. The study pointed tentatively to the beneficial role of emoticons (especially the nonstandard, i.e., of non-emotional kind) in reading short messages with understanding.

scholarly journals Preparing students for the global workforce: Chinese and non-Chinese working professionals on key employability skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
Conversational Competence

In this study, 79 Chinese and non-Chinese working professionals responded to an employability-skills survey. They were asked to identify key language and intercultural proficiencies that would allow non-Chinese professionals to work more effectively with Chinese colleagues and clients. All participants work or worked in multilingual and multicultural settings from a limited set of business sectors and job positions in mainland China. Quantitative data suggest that the participants consider intercultural competence to be the most valuable skill in global work settings. Intercultural competence includes the ability to collaborate with colleagues and clients of different nationalities, the ability to adapt to Chinese problem-solving norms when conflicts arise, and the flexibility to apply Chinese cultural practices inside and outside the workplace. Notably, a significant mean difference exists between the Chinese and non-Chinese participants concerning adaptability to Chinese norms around conflict. Regarding language proficiency, the participants identified conversational competence as the most important skill for interpersonal communication at work and beyond, placing less emphasis on the ability to read formal documents and correspondence in Chinese. This analysis attempts to suggest pedagogical guidance for Chinese and other business language educators seeking to develop sustainable business language curricula that meet the demand for a globally competent workforce.

scholarly journals KEPEMIMPINAN KEPALA SEKOLAH ( Studi Kasus di SMP Kolese Kanisius Jakarta )

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Yohanes Andhi Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Upward Communication ◽  
Intrinsic Reward ◽  
Strategic Policy ◽  
Main Support

The objective of this research was to understand and to get picture of organizational communication, decision making and reward that used by School Principal at Canisius College Junior High School Jakarta. The data were collected through participant observation using interview, observation, document study and recording. The data analysis and interpretation indicates that (1) the interpersonal communication system is a main communication system, social networking and electronic communication become the main support in developing the communication. The communication  that occurs such as oral, written and  nonverbal communication which is applied in Downward communication nor Upward communication, (2) Decision was taken as a programmed and nonprogrammed decisions. The programmed decisions is the main task of a school leader and the nonprogrammed decisions is  the strategic policy that taken to achieving the goal of the school which refers to the schools vision and mission, (3) The awarding highly prioritized both the intrinsic reward and extrinsic reward so that the teachers, staff and students feel very appreciated. It will always provide the best work for the school.

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