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Hannah Waight; Solomon Messing; Anton Shirikov; Margaret E. Roberts; Jonathan Nagler; Jason Greenfield; Megan A. Brown; Kevin Aslett; Joshua A. Tucker – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how interest groups shape media discourse, to the spread of policy across institutions, to the diffusion of organizational structures and institution themselves. To study how ideas and narratives diffuse across…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Information Processing, Information Dissemination, News Media
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Ligita, Titan; Harvey, Nichole; Wicking, Kristin; Francis, Karen; Nurjannah, Intansari – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to explicate one of the major findings of a research study seeking to understand how Indonesian people with diabetes learn about their disease. The one key finding discussed in this paper is how families influence the learning and self-management processes adopted by Indonesian people with diabetes.…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Self Management, Family Role, Foreign Countries
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Haymes, Tom – Current Issues in Education, 2021
The standards of educational information exchange are still firmly rooted in a Newtonian paradigm that emphasizes strict rules of information exchange. With the explosion of information since World War II, and especially its accessibility through the mechanism of the internet, this paradigm has become a barrier to effective exchanges of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Information Dissemination, Information Systems, Access to Information
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Abdallah M. M. Badr; Badr Saleh Al-Abdi; Maged Rfeqallah; Rozilah Kasim; Faisal A. M. Ali – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
Purpose: This study evaluates the mediating roles of entertainment, perceived usefulness, and social media use on social information (content) and students' academic performance. Methodology: Primary data was collected from 445 students at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia using the snowball sampling strategy was employed. For data analysis,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Social Media, Access to Information
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Filstad, Cathrine; Simeonova, Boyka; Visser, Max – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the crossing of knowledge and power boundaries within a bureaucratic organization by using enterprise social media (ESM). (Carlile's 2002) boundary crossing framework is used to guide this research. Design/methodology/approach: This is a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Administrative Organization, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
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Pinto, Maria; Fernández-Pascual, Rosaura; Marco, Francisco Javier García – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Preference for autonomous versus directed learning for the acquisition of information competencies (ICs) was analyzed among undergraduate social science students according to gender, degree program, belief in importance, and self-efficacy. Data were gathered using the IL-HUMASS (Information Literacy Humanities Social Sciences) online survey from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Social Sciences, Undergraduate Students