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Media, Sociality, and Aging Process A Study of Aging Process through New Media in Select Areas of Kolkata

  • Dhar, Debarati
    • Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.204-227
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    • 2018
  • This paper seeks to interrogate the very assumption of "sociality" in social media at a conceptual level and substantiate it with the help of information collected on aged people's use of conventional media $vis-{\grave{a}}-vis$ so called "social media" from the field work. Although global literature has written the obituary of mass media and promoted the "sociality" of social media, one needs to critically engage with such statement. Such statements have been an outcome of the established status of the "post broadcast" model of media where conventional media is in existence for some time and accessible to everyone in society. Further, this paper seeks to explore the interplay of new media in the life of the aged population in select areas of Kolkata city in the state of West Bengal, India. There are few studies on the ageing population's use of new media in the Indian context. While many of the studies reveal the new media literacy among the youth, this is unimportant as both the new media and the youth are relatively young as a field of research in media studies in India. What is missed in the earlier studies is, how new media plays an important function in the life of the aged population. How do older adults engage with the skilling and deskilling process of media literacy in their everyday life? And finally, do new media provide an extension to their on-going social relations? With the help of substantive details, the present study addresses the aforementioned queries.

Communication with Video Games as a Process of Semiosis

  • Maletska, Mariia;Ostashchuk, Ivan;Khrypko, Svitlana;Salo, Hanna;Petryshyn, Halyna;Lobanchuk, Olena
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.37-42
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    • 2022
  • Communication as a process of interpreting signs has always existed in people's life. In post-information society, the communication between a person and a technological system through the specific sign-attaching process becomes widespread. Moreover, it somehow replaces usual communication between people. One of the means of communication in the digital space are video games. They not only play an important role in communication processes, but also are a special case of sign-creating and interpreting. The purpose of the article is to examine video games as a space of sign-based communication between a person and a game as a specific digital system. With the help of general scientific and hermeneutic methodology, the analysis of video games as a post-information society phenomenon which people communicate to has been conducted. The process of semiosis as attaching special meanings to signs has been traced in both manipulating in-game objects and characters and understanding rules of an in-game world.

A Structural Analysis of School-Aged Children's Peer Relationship and Its Related Variables (학령기 아동의 또래관계 관련변인들 간의 관계 구조분석)

  • Choi, Ja-Eun;Moon, Dae-Gun;Moon, Soo-Back
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.99-111
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships among the related variables of peer relationship. 547 schoolage children's social support, self-esteem, empathy and peer relationship. Subjects of this study were 547 elementary school students residing in Daegu-Si completed questionnaires assessing peer relationship, social support, self-esteem, empathy. The sample variance-covariance matrix was analyzed using AMOS 20.0, and the maximum likelihood minimization function. The goodness of fit was evaluated using the SRMR, RMSEA and its 90% confidence interval, CFI, and TLI. The results were as follow. First, children's social support was found to hadn't direct effect on peer relationship. Second, children's self-esteem, empathy have a direct effect on peer relationship. Third, children's social support have a direct effect on self-esteem, empathy. and children's self-esteem have a direct effect on empathy.

The Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Counseling Program for Social Problem-Solving and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy in Incoming University Freshman (대학신입생의 사회적 문제해결력과 진로결정효능감 향상을 위한 인지행동집단상담 프로그램의 개발 및 효과)

  • Kim, Jung-Min;Park, Jun-Hee;Na, Yoon-Jung
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2009
  • This study aimed to develop cognitive-behavioral group counseling program for social problem-solving and career decision-making self-efficacy in incoming university freshman and to examine its efficacy through pre- and post-test. The program included cognitive restructuring, problem-solving and social skill training. The program consisted of 12 weekly sessions, approximately 1.5~2 hours in duration. Pre- and post-tests were administered to both a treatment group(n=48) and a control group(n=48). The collected data were statistically analyzed through ANCOVA. The main results of the study were as follows : The students in the treatment group showed a significant increase in both social problem-solving and career decision-making self-efficacy in comparison with those in the control group.

A Study on the Variables Affecting Parenting Efficacy of North Korean Refugee Mothers : With a Focus on Marital Satisfaction, Social Support, and Acculturation (북한이탈 어머니들의 양육효능감에 영향을 미치는 변인들에 관한 연구 : 결혼만족도와 사회적 지지 그리고 문화적응을 중심으로)

  • Park, Su Kyung;Ahn, Sun Hee
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.103-122
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the variables affecting parenting efficacy of North Korean refugee mothers. The selected variables were marital satisfaction, social support, and acculturation. The participants consisted of 105 mothers who had defected from North Korea with preschool children living in Seoul, Gwangmyeong-si, and Gyeongsangnam-do provinces. The data thus collected were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-tests, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The results indicated that the marital satisfaction and social support had meaningfully positive effects on the parenting efficacy of North Korean refugee mothers. However, marginalization was found to be a predictor of competence-anxiety in parenting. The selected variables derived from the environmental systems in maternal parenting were significant factors in the parenting efficacy of North Korean refugee mothers and furthermore, their sociocultural environments were also important in parenting. These findings clearly showed that marital satisfaction and social support were the most significant variables of parenting efficacy of North Korean refugee mothers. The results of this study appear to have a great deal of utility as preliminary data to improve the parenting efficacy of North Korean refugee mothers.

Is a social enterprise academy program correlated with changes in social entrepreneurship? A case study of S social enterprise academy (사회적기업 교육과 사회적기업가 정신과의 상관관계 연구 : S 사회적기업 아카데미를 중심으로)

  • Han, Chang-Keun;Park, Eun-Young;Oh, Danny
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.33-60
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    • 2013
  • This study aims to examine the extent to which a social enterprise academy program influences social entrepreneurship. This study also examined changes in self-concept, civic consciousness, and welfare attitudes as key covariates of social entrepreneurship. This paper used a case study of a social enterprise academy program which was held for two months in S social enterprise academy in 2012. Survey questionnaire with socio-economic characteristics of participants, social entrepreneurship, self-concept, civic consciousness, and welfare attitudes was developed and implemented at the first and last weeks of the program. In total, 55 respondents participated in the two surveys. Key findings suggest that program participants have no positive changes in social entrepreneurship, self-concept, civic consciousness, and welfare attitudes. In particular, interests in new market as a measure of social entrepreneurship have decreased significantly during the study period. In addition, welfare attitudes have been changed in a negative way. This paper concludes by discussing future directions of social enterprise academy program.

Network Moderating Effects between Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Performance: Focus on Jeju areas Social Enterprise Workers (사회적기업가 정신과 조직성과간의 네트워크 조절효과: 제주지역 사회적기업 근로자를 대상으로)

  • Kang, MoonSil;Kim, YoonSook
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.15-34
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of social entrepreneurship on organizational performance and to identify network moderating effects on social entrepreneurship and organizational performance. Data collected from 189 employees working in social enterprises were analyzed by using SPSS 18.0 program. Results are as follows: First, innovativeness, proactiveness, and social value orientation which were sub-factors of social entrepreneurship had positive effects on social performance. Second, proactiveness, risk-taking, and social value orientation which were sub-factors of social entrepreneurship had positive effects on economic performance. Third, the network significantly moderated the effects on innovativeness, proactiveness, social value orientation which were sub-factors of social entrepreneurship, and social performance. Fourth, the network significantly moderated the effects on proactiveness which was a sub-factor of social entrepreneurship, and economic performance. These results exhibited that the social entrepreneurship was effective to increase the organizational performance by activating the network and proposed a useful approach for further studies as an investigation method.

Nationalizing Transnationalism: A Comparative Study of the "Comfort Women" Social Movement in China, Taiwan, and South Korea

  • Alvarez, Maria del Pilar
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.8-30
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    • 2020
  • Most literature on the "comfort women" social movement focuses on the case of Korea. These works tend to transpose the meanings generated by South Korean organizations onto the transnational network, assuming certain homogeneity of repertoires and identities among the different social actors that comprise this network. Even though there is some degree of consensus about demands, repertoires, and advocacy strategies at the international level, does this same uniformity exist at the national level? In each country, what similarities and differences are present in the laboratories of ideas, relationships, and identities of social actors in the network? Symbolically and politically, do they challenge their respective societies in the same way? This article compares this social movement in South Korea, China, and Taiwan. My main argument is that the constitutive base for this transnational network is the domestic actions of these organizations. It is in the domestic sphere that these social actors reinforce their agendas, reinvent their repertoires, transform their identities, and expand their submerged networks, allowing national movements to retain their latency and autonomy. Following Melucci's relational approach to the study of social movements, this research is based on a qualitative analysis of institutional documents, participant observation, and open-ended interviews with members of the main social actors.

The Effect of Affectionate Parenting Attitudes Perceived by Adolescents on Social Withdrawal : The Mediator Effect of Ego-resilience (청소년이 지각한 부모의 애정적 양육태도가 사회적 위축에 미치는 영향 : 자아탄력성의 매개효과)

  • Kim, Hye-Seon;Lee, Jimin
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.77-88
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    • 2016
  • This study was conducted in order to find out protective factors on adolescent's social withdrawal. The purpose of this study was to test the mediator effects of adolescent's ego-resilience in the relation between affectionate parenting attitudes and adolescent's social withdrawal. The data were collected from 586 students of high schools located in 'D' city, Korea. Adolescents completed questionnaires on 'My Memories of Upbringing(EMBU-short)', ego-resilience, and 'Korean Youth Self Report(K-YSR)' scales. The correlation and structural equation model were conducted to examine the relations between the variables by using the SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. The results are as follow: First, while the affectionate parenting attitudes did not directly affect the adolescent's social withdrawal, the ego-resilience had a direct effect on the adolescent's social withdrawal. Second, there was a significant mediator effect of the adolescent's ego-resilience between the affectionate parenting attitude and adolescent's social withdrawal. In conclusion, these results can be used as basic data to prevent social withdrawal of adolescents and increase their ego-resilience.

The Influence of Maternal-Acceptance Experiences During Childhood, Social-Supportive Level and Emotion-Coaching Reaction on Child Emotion-Regulation Strategies: Mediated-Moderation Effects (어머니의 아동기 수용 경험, 사회적 지지와 감정코칭 반응이 아동의 정서조절 방식에 미치는 영향: 매개된 조절효과 검증)

  • Oh, Ji-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.101-115
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    • 2016
  • Objective: The study examined the mediated-moderation effect of social-support levels from maternal-acceptance experiences by the parents of origin to child emotion regulation strategies through an emotion-coaching reaction. Methods: The participants in this study were children (Grades 4-6) and their mothers. They completed questionnaires on Maternal Parenting Experiences Scale, Children's Emotion Regulation Scale, Emotion-Coaching Scale, and Social Supportive Level Scale. Data were analyzed via SEM. Results: The main findings were as follows. First, a mediating model showed that the relationship between maternal-acceptance experiences by the parents of origin and child emotion-regulation strategies was mediated by emotion-coaching reactions. Second, there was a moderation effect of social-supportive levels on the relationship between maternal-acceptance experiences from parents of origin and emotion-coaching reaction. Finally, social-supportive levels mediated the moderation effect of social-support level from maternal-acceptance experiences to child emotion-regulation strategies through emotion-coaching reaction. Conclusion: These results indicate that importance of maternal social-supportive level from owns spouse or friends. I discussed the implications of the intervention of parent counseling and parent education in this research.