Book review: Kravchenko S. A. “Sociology of Digitalisation: university textbook” by N. N. Meshcheryakova, L. A. Vasilenko

“…Kravchenko calls this new reality the socio-digital-natural reality, in which, primarily in social networks, both human actors and non-human (digital) actors, sociotechnical and techno-social hybrids operate. …”
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Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications by Chad C. Tossell, Philip Kortum, Clayton W. Shepard, Ahmad Rahmati, Lin Zhong

“…Topically, this methodology can be applied to domains interested in understanding mediated communications such as mobile content and systems design, teamwork, and social networks.…”
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Farmers’ adoption of green prevention and control technology in China: does information awareness matter? by Ruifeng Liu, Jian Wang, Mengling Tian, Yefan Nian, Wei Ren, Hengyun Ma, Fei Liang

“…Mechanism analysis shows that farmers’ information awareness affects the adoption of GPCT mainly through social networks. Farmers’ environmental values significantly reinforce the positive influence of information awareness on GPCT adoption. …”
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With just one tap. Network study of tweets dissemination during the war in Ukraine by Marcin Wozniak

“…In this paper, we study social networks that emerged on X during selected war events. …”
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Enhancing Privacy While Preserving Context in Text Transformations by Large Language Models by Tymon Lesław Żarski, Artur Janicki

“…Data security is a critical concern for Internet users, primarily as more people rely on social networks and online tools daily. Despite the convenience, many users are unaware of the risks posed to their sensitive and personal data. …”
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THE IMPACT OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES ON ENHANCING HEDONISTIC CONSUMER ATTITUDES by Radosław Mącik, Monika Nalewajek

“…Virtual communities, particularly social networking sites (in paper mainly Facebook.com and Pinterest.com were considered), and blogs (for this case particularly fashion and other life-style ones), are natural places for young consumers to view, communicate, share and create own content. …”
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The Home and the World: Analysing Socio-Spatial Dynamics and Identity-Formation in Indian Picturebooks by Aditi Bhardwaj, Devjani Ray

“…Place identity constitutes a crucial component of children’s sense of self as they learn to locate themselves and others around them in relational social networks. Picturebooks – owing to their multimodality – can be employed to decode the meanings that the spaces inhabited by children are imbued with, and how they, in turn, shape children’s spatial experiences of the world. …”
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Effectiveness Evaluation of Random Forest, Naive Bayes, and Support Vector Machine Models for KDDCUP99 Anomaly Detection Based on K-means Clustering by Zhang Majun

“…The paper concludes by highlighting the value of ensemble approaches, in particular Random Forest, for tackling anomaly detection and network security issues, particularly hi light of the expanding significance of social networks and the internet.…”
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Unsupervised User Similarity Mining in GSM Sensor Networks by Shafqat Ali Shad, Enhong Chen

“…Mobility data has attracted the researchers for the past few years because of its rich context and spatiotemporal nature, where this information can be used for potential applications like early warning system, route prediction, traffic management, advertisement, social networking, and community finding. All the mentioned applications are based on mobility profile building and user trend analysis, where mobility profile building is done through significant places extraction, user’s actual movement prediction, and context awareness. …”
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Alternatives for scientific dissemination in universities by Mabel Rodríguez Moya, Yuleydi Alcaide Guardado, César David Fuentes Rodríguez

“…Keywords combinations of “scientific dissemination, university, “academic social networks” were applied. Based on the obtained information, a bibliographic review of 163 documents was carried out; Those that did not adequately address the topics of interest were excluded, and 27 were selected. …”
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Distress and Positive Experiences Among Adolescents in Northern Chile in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study by Katherin Castillo-Morales, Ricardo Espinoza-Tapia, Diego Portilla-Saavedra, Rodrigo Moya-Vergara

“…Meanwhile, the positive experiences category highlighted experiences related to interpersonal relationships through social networks, hobbies, activism, and pets. This research provides guiding results for policymakers and mental health authorities to incorporate this information when creating initiatives for working with the adolescent population. …”
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Assessing Institutional Performance Using Machine Learning Algorithms by zainabalwan anwer, Ahmad Abdalrada, Ihtiram Raza Khan

“…In Iraq, Facebook is regarded as one of the most widely used social networking sites. The underutilization of this tool for evaluating institutional performance persists. …”
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The Correlation between Social Deixis and Social Class in a Speech by Nobel Prize Winners: A Sociopragmatic Study by Annur Karima Zulyanputri, Lia Maulia Indrayani, Ypsi Soeria Soemantri

“…Through the finding of the research, the relational type of social deixis can determine the speakers’ social class dimensions and they are wealth, occupation, education, and social networking.   …”
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TECHNOLOGY-BASED NON-CLINICAL COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE LONELINESS IN THE ELDERLY: A LITERATURE REVIEW by Wahyu Agustin Eka Lestari

“…Other interventions are needed such as technological interventions (eg, digital applications (apps), online social networks and social robots) to enhance emotional support and social interaction. …”
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Introduction: Urban-Rural Differences in Historical Demography by Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping

“…Instead, migrants often remained embedded in and influenced by trans-regional social networks.…”
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Introduction: Urban-Rural Differences in Historical Demography by Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping

“…Instead, migrants often remained embedded in and influenced by trans-regional social networks.…”
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KurdSM: Transformer-Based Model for Kurdish Abstractive Text Summarization with an Annotated Corpus by pedram yamini, fatemeh daneshfar, Abuzar Ghorbani

“…With the exponential growth of unstructured data on the Web and social networks, extracting relevant information from multiple sources; has become increasingly challenging, necessitating the need for automated summarization systems. …”
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The sociological measurement of individual adaptive potential in media ecosystem by O. A. Grimov

“…According to the results of the author’s sociological research with the usage of cluster analysis (online survey of social networks and messengers’ users, N = 900), four clusters of media users were found, differing in the level of development and structure of adaptive potential. …”
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