Social networks and the internet both have a substantial individual effect on environmental activism in China. In this article, we speculate that social linking patterns between environmental actors, which often facilitate activism on the ground, may also exist in cyberspace in the form of an online network. The article addresses the following empirical questions. Does such an online network ex...

This paper studies character-role creation by Method actors to begin developing a sociological understanding of artistic creativity and shed light on the construction of social roles. Portrayals on film or stage reflect but also importantly shape audience’s understandings of social life. How do actors create these portrayals? The analysis of interviews with and observation of Method actors show...

This paper presents a model of nonverbal communication and interpersonal relationship between virtual actors. Nonverbal communication improves their believability. They react not only to the presence of the other actors but also to their postures. Furthermore, their interpersonal relationships are affected by the issue of social interactions. To avoid homogenous group behaviors, each actor is s...

Two studies demonstrated that individuals can fail to detect changes in their actions that are induced by implicit social influence. In both studies, observers' impressions indicated that actors matched the positivity of their remarks about themselves to the positivity of another person's self-description. However, actors' own judgments of the types of impressions they conveyed revealed that th...

A considerable amount of recent research has been conducted on the link-prediction problem, that is the problem of accurately predicting edges that will be established between actors of a social network in a future time period [LNK07, LZ10]. In cooperation with the provider of a German social network site (SNS), we aim to contribute to this line of research by analyzing the link-formation and i...

Although both betweenness and closeness centrality are claimed to be important for the effectiveness of someone’s network position, it has not been explicitly studied which networks emerge if actors follow incentives for these two positional advantages. We propose such a model and observe that network dynamics differ considerably in a scenario with either betweenness or closeness incentives com...

In Collective Behavior we come to know how individuals behave in social network environment. The main aim is to guess how there is collective behavior in social media. Many social media face this problem of prediction. Due to the non homogenous nature of connections present in the network a social-dimensions based approach is shown. There are many numbers of actors present in social media. So b...

Previous studies have demonstrated similarities in gazing behaviour of dogs and humans, but comparisons under similar conditions are rare, and little is known about dogs' visual attention to social scenes. Here, we recorded the eye gaze of dogs while they viewed images containing two humans or dogs either interacting socially or facing away: the results were compared with equivalent data measur...