Structural and Behavioural Model for Social Computing Applications

Social Computing a new paradigm is causing transformational changes to societal and business processes resulting in new businesses models known as sharing economy, peer economy or collaborative consumption. The diffusion rates of these applications have surpassed any historical technological advancement and have reached millions and billions of users during a short period of time. To understand this phenomenon we analysed eight such popular applications using inductive and content analysis techniques which have helped us derive a structural and a behavioural model for Social Computing. Using these two models we were able to get a deeper understanding of how an application designed to assist a particular communication pattern give rise to a set of emergent characteristics within the user such as trust, empowerment, belongingness that motivate user to act to fulfil a need assisting the growth of these applications. This understanding can guide the design of new successful Social Computing applications

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology andeconomics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability ofpersonality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworksfor interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest promisingavenues for future research.education, training and the labour market;

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest promising avenues for future research.personality traits, lifecycle effects, psychology, economics

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest promising avenues for future research.lifecycle effects, personality traits

Factors That Influence Learning Satisfaction Delivered by Video Streaming Technology

In 2005, over 100,000 e-Learning courses were offered in over half of all U.S. postsecondary education institutions with nearly 90% of all community colleges and four year institutions offering online education. Streaming video is commonplace across the internet offering seamless video and sound anywhere connectivity is available effectively making any location a learning environment. The problem investigated in this study was to determine factors that affect the learning satisfaction of students that video streamed courses. This study is important to enable improvements in curriculum, delivery of content, designs of alternative study venues, and guide college administrators in making decisions on classroom and instructor utilization. Information was gathered by analyzing quantitative data obtained from surveys issued to 1593 students from a coastal Virginia university engaged in e-Learning via video streaming technology with nearly 21% responding. Statistical analyses were used to determine relationships between independent variables, e.g., video stream quality, motivation, physical environment, climate, communication, interactions, location, and video streaming experience and learning satisfaction (dependent variable). The analyses were used to report characteristics and basic features, e.g., ages, sex, degree sought, to furnish details of the population studied. The results of this study indicated that the physical environment had a moderate correlation as well as significance on student satisfaction. The multiple correlation coefficient from the stepwise linear regression analysis between the predictor (student environment) and outcome (student satisfaction) indicated that student environment accounted for most of the variation in student satisfaction. Social climate had the greatest influence on student satisfaction with communication with instructor and classmate interaction following second and respectively third. With regard to motivational factors professional development was rated first with course availability, prerequisite requirements, and availability of a degree being the top four reasons for taking a video streamed class. Availability of a course exerted the greatest influence in the variation of student satisfaction. A stepwise linear regression revealed significant influence between the physical environment, video streaming experience, social environment, and video streaming class quality to overall student satisfaction with video streaming experience having the greatest influence on student satisfaction. Education institutions should consider the home as the location of choice of video streaming students; consider more accommodating schedules for the non-traditional student; and consider work load, class size, and training for instructors of video streaming classes

Media do not exist : performativity and mediating conjunctures

Collection : Theory on demand ; 31Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati offers a radically new approach to the phenomenon of mediation, proposing a new understanding that challenges the very notion of medium. It begins with a historical overview of recent developments in Western thought on mediation, especially since the mid 80s and the emergence of the disciplines of media archaeology and intermediality. While these developments are inseparable from the advent of digital technology, they have a long history. The authors trace the roots of this thought back to the dawn of philosophy. Humans interact with their environment – which includes other humans – not through media, but rather through a series of continually evolving mediations, which Larrue and Vitali-Rosati call ‘mediating conjunctures’. This observation leads them to the paradoxical argument that ‘media do not exist’. Existing theories of mediation processes remain largely influenced by a traditional understanding of media as relatively stable entities. Media Do Not Exist demonstrates the limits of this conception. The dynamics relating to mediation are the product not of a single medium, but rather of a series of mediating conjunctures. They are created by ceaselessly shifting events and interactions, blending the human and the non-human, energy, and matter

De-Individuation of the Modern Subject in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The Case of Self-Driving Cars and Algorithms for Decision Making.

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Personality Psychology and Economics

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is reviewed about the "situational specificity" of personality traits and preferences. An extreme version of the situationist view claims that there are no stable personality traits or preference parameters that persons carry across different situations. Those who hold this view claim that personality psychology has little relevance for economics. The biological and evolutionary origins of personality traits are explored. Personality measurement systems and relationships among the measures used by psychologists are examined. The predictive power of personality measures is compared with the predictive power of measures of cognition captured by IQ and achievement tests. For many outcomes, personality measures are just as predictive as cognitive measures, even after controlling for family background and cognition. Moreover, standard measures of cognition are heavily influenced by personality traits and incentives. Measured personality traits are positively correlated over the life cycle. However, they are not fixed and can be altered by experience and investment. Intervention studies, along with studies in biology and neuroscience, establish a causal basis for the observed effect of personality traits on economic and social outcomes. Personality traits are more malleable over the life cycle compared to cognition, which becomes highly rank stable around age 10. Interventions that change personality are promising avenues for addressing poverty and disadvantage.personality, behavioral economics, cognitive traits, wages, economic success, human development, person-situation debate