Generating Social Practices

Generating Social Practices

AIDS. Social Representations. Social Practices

Since the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), most research efforts and publications have focused on the medical aspects of AIDS. Unfortunately, much of the earlier work on the social effect of HIV infection has been overshadowed by sophisticated technology. This book, a collection of papers from the November 1988 United Kingdom Conference on the Social Aspects of AIDS, is...

Generating Artificial Social Networks

The study of complex social networks is an inherently interdisciplinary research area with applications across many fields, including psychology. Social network models describe, illustrate and explain how people are connected to each other and can, for example, be used to study information spread and interconnectedness of people with different kinds of traits. One approach to social network mod...

Social Practices Around iTunes

Music sharing technologies appear to exist tenuously between the possibilities supported by technical innovation (e.g., peer-to-peer discovery protocols) and the constraints of political, legal, and ethical considerations. These political, legal, and ethical considerations – digital rights management laws, in particular – have catalyzed much of the recent changes in music sharing technologies a...

Generating Capital from Social Media

Starting from the notion of the organization as a capital-conversion system, the full article provides organizations with a structured approach for developing a social media strategy that can generate capital out of the apparent chaotic and unmanageable flood of unstructured individual opinions that arrive via social media. The approach links organizational strategy to capital-generation goals ...