Social Communication - Science topic

Dear Agnieszka,

Of course there is censorship of every kind and everywhere today in the social sciences: from self-censorship due to multiple kinds of fears (including smearing of colleagues in ways that are defamatory and without any chance to reply which is a growing problem even in scholarly journals) and taboos, to financial and political influence that defines "current debates", to redefinitions of and limitations of fields that change what questions and what conclusions and what methodologies are allowed, to disciplinary barriers, to hierarchies of corporate journals that determine what is reviewed and by whom and what space is allotted and who can be cited, and every other kind of conflicts of interest and hierarchy, even in book reviews that now have to be promotional for colleagues rather than honest and constructive criticism and debates. And most journals today have eliminated letters to the editor and debates, while discussion platforms are also pre-screened Ralph Nader used to say that in legal scholarship, you can't present a new idea because you "can't footnote it" and today you can't get a minority idea through a "majority" peer review in most fields, where the standard is now subjective agreement. To be heard with credibility, you need to have your own journal and press but that is also subject to controls.

I suggest that you focus on solutions:

(1) de-politicizing peer review, is one, so that following a methodology protects even unpopular conclusions. Here is one of two articles that I have offered to set the model, in response to politicization in one of my fields. (This one was censored and then finally published and the other one on book review standards can still not be published.)

“Returning Discipline to the Discipline: A Model Procedure for Reviews in Anthropology, Other Social Sciences, and Related Disciplines,” Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, 2018, Volume 8, Issue 1, Article 10, pages 301 - 326. Available at: http://trace.tennessee.edu/catalyst/vol8/iss1/10

(2) You can also try to set up a new e-journal that allows for alternative work and is open to work that has been censored. If anyone reading this would like to do that and has a platform, contact me so that I can join you.

If you just want to read about the general problem today, take a look at this piece and the special issue of Catalyst that I edited to open debate on this issue.

“Foreword: The Death of Social Sciences in an Era of Multi-Cultural Corporatism (Neo-Liberalism): With Efforts at Resuscitation”, Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum, 2018, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Article 2, pages 1 – 52.

Available at: http://trace.tennessee.edu/catalyst/vol8/iss1/2

Here's a short article on the general problem globally.

“Are Social Scientists Next to be Imprisoned and Tortured?: A Call to Unite and Oppose the Criminalization of Social Science, Contexts (American Sociological Association), 2019. Available at: https://contexts.org/blog/are-social-scientists-next-to-be-imprisoned-and-tortured-a-call-to-unite-and-oppose-the-criminalization-of-social-science/

You can also look at a piece I put up on ResearchGate in response to political pressures in Anthropology that are a result of the current war in Ukraine. The censorship today is exactly the opposite line from 30 years ago when the line then was that Russia was a "democracy". The fact that censorship can move so quickly and easily from one position to its opposite shows how politicized social science has become.

Best,

David Lempert, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A., E.D. (Hon.)

Many groups may be excluded through legal systems, land, and labor markets and discriminatory or stigmatizing attitudes, beliefs, or perceptions. A disadvantage is often based on social identity, which may be across dimensions of gender, age, location, occupation, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship status, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity, among other factors. This kind of social exclusion deprives individuals of dignity, security, and the opportunity to lead a better life. Unless the root causes of structural exclusion and discrimination are addressed, it will be challenging to support sustainable, inclusive growth and rapid poverty reduction. Social workers and governmental support are significant for transgender marginalized people in Bangladesh. Therefore, social workers could involve this community in their process as much as possible and put more effort to convince the government to approve the legal support, gender right, and social inclusion. Social workers' roles have grown to include crisis management and roles of empowerment and advocacy. They can empower communities by encouraging individuals to take an active role in shaping social services, providing education programs, and enabling economic independence long-term.

Hello

Why do you do research in Scopus or Web of Science? Google academics?

Also, the library of your university?

Best regards

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In general, the Social Skills Training Model -SST- is followed, but adapting them to the circumstances of EACH CHILD WITH ASD; Thus, below we present a Guide offered by the COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Center (RED CENIT) of Valencia, Spain:

Social Skills (HHSS) are considered a set of capacities or skills that allow us to develop a repertoire of actions and behaviors that make people develop in the social sphere. But these are very complex because they are formed by a wide range of ideas, thoughts, beliefs and values ​​that are the result of learning and experiences. This will cause a great influence on the behaviors and attitudes that the person has in their relationship and interaction with others, since they are capacities that we all have to understand in the context that we unwind and adapt to that moment in which we are situated.

And, what about social skills in children with ASD?

They often fail in social competence; It is difficult for them to be able to use the different visual cues, being these fundamental in the social contexts in which they operate, especially in school: The common characteristic in people with ASD is their difficulty in understanding social relationships and situations, and therefore Therefore, the failure to develop social skills. Social skills in children with ASD are difficult to develop because they have difficulties understanding appropriate social behavior and understanding the implicit rules of social behavior, since their social learning is often rigid and not fully understood.

But, this does not mean that they do not want to have friends, socialize, play or bond with their peers, but that biological barriers do not allow it. Sometimes they do not understand social patterns or do not know how to respond to displays of both affection and anger, given their difficulty in understanding the actions of other people. And that is where we must intervene to be able to help them, from a young age, to achieve all their objectives in different areas, to promote their communication with society and that they can get to interact with their environment.

"One of the main features of the human being is to be an" object with a mind ", who is able to understand the mind and attribute it to others" (Rivière 1991). For this reason, it is necessary to handle what we call theory of mind, that is, to give the other one's own thoughts and feelings, different from one's own. People within the TEA have difficulties in this area, so it is necessary to work on this aspect first so that they are more competent in the area of ​​social skills; But it is also important for the development of these skills to make good use of executive functions (to be able to attend to the signs of the environment and of the people with whom one interacts, to plan actions, to be able to solve possible problems that may arise and to be flexible to find more than one solution evaluating the consequences of each one).

What are the essential components of social skills?

They are essentially acquired through learning (through observation, imitation, rehearsal). They contain verbal and non-verbal behaviors. They involve effective and appropriate initiatives and responses.

They increase social reinforcement, they are reciprocal by nature and involve an effective and appropriate correspondence and their practice is influenced by the characteristics of the environment

What can we do to help people with ASD understand their social environment and be successful in the social world we live in ?:

It will be necessary to direct his social and emotional learning by teaching him the essential skills to develop social and emotional competence. This includes social skills training in the areas of problem solving, conversation skills, identifying and managing feelings and emotions, and stress management.

Thus, we offer, in "-II-" 10 ideas or tips for improving social skills in children with ASD

Digital pathology has entered a new era with the availability of whole slide scanners that create the high-resolution images of full biopsy slides. Consequently, the uncertainty regarding the correspondence between the image areas and the diagnostic labels assigned by pathologists at the slide level, and the need for identifying regions that belong to multiple classes with different clinical significances have emerged as two new challenges. However, generalizability of the state-of-the-art algorithms, whose accuracies were reported on carefully selected regions of interest (ROIs) for the binary benign versus cancer classification, to these multi-class learning and localization problems is currently unknown.

I wonder if this is the researcher? You could follow Shelly and ask?

Shelly Shah

There is nothing on the RG page regarding past publications.

Thank you Prakash for sharing the information.

There are a number of features that must be possessed.

- Intelligence:

- The existence of internal motivation to learn

- Ability to make decisions

- Ability to transfer skills

- Ability to participate in teamwork

- Ability to display his knowledge in different ways

- Provide the appropriate environment

Dear Rajeev E.M

As dear Belcaid Anass mentioned, it is a classification problem which means you must have a dataset of Suicide related to Social Media but not simple dataset consist of nominal and polynomial data. There are some textual dataset for Twitter users:

1- https://www.google.com/search?q=Suicide+Related+Communication+on+Social+Media+dataset&oq=Suicide+Related+Communication+on+Social+Media+dataset&aqs=chrome..69i57.3708j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

2-Article Multi-class machine classification of suicide-related commun...

These dataset has label usually, in other words it is specified in dataset that each record belongs to a Suicide case or not (binomial label).

In this case, first of all you should extract some numerical features from the texts which indicate the probability of suicide. There are many feature extraction methods like topic modeling which calculate the textual similarity between Twittes and some words in a topic (Depression, Suicide, ... ). Even though some pre-processing can be used before feature extraction like removing stop words (unnecessary terms in a sentence like conjunction words). After feature extraction, you will have a dataset of numerical features with binomial labels (Suicide or note). Now you can use machine learning techniques like SVM, Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, Linear Regression, ... .

If your programming skills is good, I suggest to use Python programming language and scikit toolbox as Belcaid Anass mentioned. But if your programming skills is weak, I suggest to use RapidMiner. It is a visual tool for creating your process model.

If you have any other question, please let me know.

I can be your adviser too, if you need. I have many papers in another same field.

Sincerely

Good question. Following.

Yes it can.

Kenneth, There are two evidence based design principles proven by the behavioral health researcher Dr. Roger Ulrich (who I briefly collaborated with at Bethesda Naval Military Medical Center - now Walter Reed) was that views of nature and the inclusion of sunlight improved healing efficacy verses no views of nature and no natural sunlight (not specifying the landscape or hemisphere). Olmsted about 110 years before had a theory that an individual immersed in nature (not articulating what kind of ecosystem) and experienced views of nature - alleviated symptoms of depression...of course the Greeks understood this in their architecture 2000 years before....cheers.

You can have a look at Milo https://robots4autism.com/milo/

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental disorder that affects the brain's normal development of social and communication skills. Common features of ASD include impaired social interactions, impaired verbal and nonverbal communication, problems processing information from the senses, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior.also

People with autism—the core form of ASD—tend to appear indifferent and remote and are unable to form emotional bonds with others. In addition, they will often have unusual responses to sensory experiences, such as the noise of a leaky faucet becoming extremely disruptive whereas most people will eventually show forms of habituation or adaptation to the persistent noise.

People who make big achievements on social, fiancial, political or educational levels may move to an upper class. However, those who encounter failures on various levels may come down to a lower class. But the movement to either classes is very slow and limited.

what is TSA and asperger syndrom?

Hi Mary,

This is amazing!! Thank you so much!! I have been looking for this as well!

Many, many thanks!

Teresa

Hi. I hope some of this can help you.

Lalaeva. R. I. (1989). Disorders of written speech. In L. S. Volkova (eds.), Logopedia, (pp.

345-382) Moscow: Prosveschenie.

Luria, A. R. (1950). Essays on the psychophysiology of writing. Moscow: Izd-Vo. APN.

Nazarova, L. K. (1952). On the role of speech kinesthestesia in writing. Soviet Pedagogy,

Vol. 6, pp. 37-51.

Dear Emily,

If you mean that myths can affect people's lives, I have no problem with that. I also agree that is probably what has inflated the popularity of the polyvagal speculations. Wampold, in his work, makes a very convincing case that improvements in psychological wellbeing don't rely very much at all upon the method (or, perhaps, ritual would be a better word) chosen: improvement has more to do with having some ritual one believes in, a practitioner of it who seems competent to the client, a joint plan and goals, and maybe most importantly an atmosphere of trust and compassion.

However, my problem is that the ritual becomes conflated with science in this case, and the scientific aspect is used to sell the approach, when all the scientific evidence speaks against the speculations. There are, I hope you will agree, multiple myths that could be invoked to explain the various conditions to which you allude. Why not construct an explanation (myth) more consistent with what we know? That would provide, in my opinion, a much healthier approach for the therapy (i.e. ritual), as well as the societal acceptance of it, in the long run. Right now, what might happen to a client who has gone through a therapy with a polyvagal explanation (and who believes in "science" as the new religion) when they eventually read that in the New York Times that the polyvagal ideas have been thoroughly debunked? What happens to the credibility among scientists of a potentially helpful therapy (ritual) when the underlying scientific premises are thoroughly falsified, as seems to be happening. I don't think that is good for anyone. And I strongly believe one could adjust the vagal myth, employing autonomic explanations that have been around for at least a century before the polyvagal speculations were suggested. That is all I am trying to get at.

I think that physical activity should be an inevitable and irreplaceable part of everyday routine in maintaining good health, both physically and psychologically, in all age groups. But unfortunately, in Serbia, I believe that this attitude is widespread in urban areas among young people, but not among elderly people, only in those who are engaged in recreational sports. While in rural areas, physical activity is considered optional for young people, and even unnecessary and inappropriate for elderly people, which is highly harmful attitude. 

I think that raising awareness, education, organizing public trainings and similar activities should be at a higher level in rural areas, because there are large differences in understanding that physical activity is necessary, among the elderly population in urban and rural areas.

The AAT results can be analyzed for severity (overall and per language capability : listening comprehension, reading, spontaneous lang etc.) via an analysis program that can be obtained (AAT) or via the list of scores (discriminant analysis based) that can be found in the AAT manual.

That's great. I work in this sector - both in practice and in theory. Will update in things relate. You also keep posted. Cheers. Tarek. 

Have you considered media exposure; since the following language outlets could essentially be interpreted as a type of media. A detailed description is on page 154, while page 158 contains the measures.

It would be best to begin with activity and network theories in genera,l to which activity network theory moves in a more focused context. Carl Butts article in Science Vol 325, No. 5939, pp 414-416 (2009) looks at foundations of network analysis and Tom Brughmans article in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Col 20 (2013); Yrjo Engestrom ( one of the leaders in developing activity theory) has written extensively on the subject --see Ergonomics 43, No 7 (2000) and Journal of Education and Work Vol 14, No 1 (2001) for a good bibliography of his work extending back into the 1980s.

I know a researcher in this field. I'll send you her e-mail address in a private message.

Symbolism is the root of communication as demonstrated not only by the use of non verbal communication in our discourse but in the structure of words themselves.  Onomatopoeia is an example, where the phonetics of a word symbolises the sound it describes.  

Leopold is quite correct that Hochdeutsch is much less symbolic than the regional dialects of German, the same can be said for English.  The reason appears to be that in constructing an 'official' received form of a language depletes it of its more expressive (vulgar) forms.  The dialects, while becoming a perceived 'primitive' and less refined version of the language nevertheless retain its character.

Poetry is one of the most symbolic uses of communication and often uses dialect or slang in its construction.  Should poetry be 'translated' into the 'high' forms of language it would be sterile and its symbolism would fade.   

Dear Dan,

you have been busy in quite some different contexts and countries, as I see :-)

And I think you developed useful tools to improve communication - also the 4 distance model, that I checked on your web site with interest, (http://www.danieletrevisani.com/emotions/Daniele_Trevisani_4_Distances_Model.htm)

Communication training in German health care providers would need improvement, such as with the tools you provide. At least, employees in primary care private practices are sometimes trained with aid of the 4 ears model - but I doubt if this is also the case for medical doctors.

Now I will continue to write a paper issuing practical consequences from our biopsychosocial model that we developed - hope I succeed...

Thank you for the offer to contact you in case I need more information about your potential and distances model, I will keep it in mind,

beste regards, 

Thomas

PS: I add a paper just publlsihed by colleagues in Netherland (that I do not know), it may relate to your communication topics?

I agree with M.E. Stothers. Social interaction and social communication are not the main troubles in ASD postsecondary education. It is not possible to generalize about it. It depends on the person, their interests and their need about social interaction. However, in addition to that over-researching, my clinical practice and research has shown me that many ASD students suffer of an overestimation of knowledge and specific topics. In that sense, they have troubles with the establishment of relations between topics, considering that different perspectives cannot be related, integrating information of different sources, or applying that knowledge to either real life or professional practice. Their conclusions are not always coherent and are full of irrelevant information. This is even more clear and complex if their interests are focused on social sciences.

Done, inclusion is the way forward gives a new dimension to dance

Communicative Competence is the ability to communicate your intended message in socio-cultural context. The choice of grammatical structure is clearly related to the circumstances and is chosen for its appropriacy in those circumstances. Learners need to know how to express a variety of functions and which choices are appropriate in different circumstances

This might be interesting to read (social functioning and neuro-imaging in youth):

As well as this study (measuring bullying and social functioning in children with autism):

I think it is most common to use peer nominations or peer ratings to measure a child's social position in the peer group (at least in non-clinical samples), but I do not know whether this is an option in your study.

Some of the information you are looking for is in my article "The Past, Present, and Future of EU Enlargement". For example, the EU - in cooperation with the candidate country governments - opened "Info Points" in many larger and smaller towns across the CEECs to provide easy access to information about European integration. The Commission also funded training for legal professionals and other interested private sector professionals across the CEECs, much of it in the context of PHARE. I don't have details about support for NGOs but, as one example, the EU did support the creation of European Communities Studies Associations (local ECSA groups) among academics and funded the creation of Jean Monnet Chairs for professors in law, political science, economics, and European history in the CEECs, as well as European Union Documentation Centers either at university or national libraries. I hope this will help...

The growth of bacteria, and a particular smell to skin of an individual is more related to sebaceous secretion from the sebaceous glands. These are different from sweat glands. The composition of sebaceous secretion depends upon several factors, of which the food variety of the person plays a very important role. In fact, it is a defense barrier for the immunity to skin infections as, secretions flush out the bacteria from the pores of the skin and secondly it can inhibit mostly by bacteriostatic action of its components. However, if the bacteria is virulent enough, then it might grow on some these components of sebaceous glands (like the Corynebacterium spp). Afetr altering some of these secretary components of the glands, the bacteria might be removing the masks of the smell causing compounds leading to the particular smell.

Secondly it is important to note that  the components of sebaceous secretions are regulated also by hormones and other factors like activity etc. 

How about GIMP and imageMagick ?

How about considering all the Hofstede's cultural dimensions such as Power distance index, Individualism vs. collectivism, Uncertainty avoidance index, Masculinity vs. femininity, Indulgence versus restraint. Not all of them would apply but most of them can be taken as a starting point.

Hi Brenda,

This is a very interesting and important question.. i look forward to find out how you eventually decide to run this activity and hope that you will share it in this forum as well..

A potential activity addressing the learning outcomes you mentioned can be a simulated situation requiring efficient team dynamics and interpersonal skills.. there can be many examples taken from real-life scenarios..

One situation i have heard used for training can be a patient requiring emergent surgery who needs to be moved to operating room, and at the same time, communication with attending as well as the patient and patient's relatives.. in addition, efficient communication with nursing staff, operating room, intensive care, blood bank, lab and radiology is required..

If a group of resident is allowed to watch and 'peer assess' the exercise run by a team of residents assigned different roles, i think many of the areas you have highlighted can be touched upon...

Hope this helps, regards, raza