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Civil societies and social movements: …, 2007

This paper presents a Data-Network Science study on a dataset of publications archived in The Sem... more This paper presents a Data-Network Science study on a dataset of publications archived in The Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus (S2ORC) database and categorized under the area of “Disease Control through Social Network Surveillance,” an area abbreviated from now on as “DCSNS.” In particular, our dataset consists of 10866 documents (which are articles and reviews), retrieved through a Boolean search, published in the period from 1983, the first year of cataloguing such publications in S2ORC, to 2020. Retrieving also the corpus of abstracts of these documents (publications) and applying the standard LDA Topic Modeling technique, we found an optimal number of six topics producing the maximum topic coherence score among the corresponding topic models with varying numbers of topics. In that matter, the network of our study becomes a directed citation graph of publications in the area of DCSNS, with nodes/publications labeled by the Topics (into which Topic Modeling categorizes words ...

Our aim here is to plead for the significance of cultural considerations of overlapping inter-att... more Our aim here is to plead for the significance of cultural considerations of overlapping inter-attitudinal patterns right next to well established structural considerations of interorganizational networks based on overlapping membership patterns. In particular, we examine how the analytical sociological methodological incorporation of cultural attributes or attitudes might enhance our understanding of structural community categorizations in interorganizational networks. For this purpose, we analyze data of the International Peace Protest Survey (IPPS) on the world-wide peace protests of February, 15, 2003, in order to manifest the added value offered by the consideration of the culture-structure duality in participation studies.

Our aim here is to plead for the significance of cultural considerations of overlapping inter—att... more Our aim here is to plead for the significance of cultural considerations of overlapping inter—attitudinal patterns right next to well established structural considerations of interorganizational networks based on overlapping membership patterns. In particular, we examine how the analytic methodological incorporation of cultural attributes or attitudes might enhance our understanding of structural community categorizations in interorganizational networks. For this purpose, we analyze data of the International Peace Protest Survey (IPPS) on the world—wide peace protests of February, 15, 2003, in or- der to manifest the added value offered by the consideration of the culture- structure duality in participation studies.

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie, 2003

The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of the various streams of constructivism i... more The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of the various streams of constructivism in studies of education, society, science and technology. It is intended to present a number of answers to the question (what really is constructivism?) in the context of various disciplines from the humanities and the sciences (both natural and social). In particular the discussion will focus on four varieties of constructivism: philosophical, cybernetic, educational, and sociological constructivism. Résumé: Cet article a pour objectif de passer brièvement en revue les différents courants de constructivisme dans les études sur l'éducation, la société, la science et la technologie. Il a également pour intention d'offrir un certain nombre de réponses à la question « Qu'estce réellement que le constructivisme ? » dans le contexte de diverses disciplines appartenant aux lettres et sciences humaines, ainsi qu'aux sciences (naturelles et sociales). La discussion se centrera tout particulièrement sur quatre variantes du constructivisme: philosophique, cybernétique, éducatif et sociologique. 10. Brey (1997) reviews such theoretical changes in the areas of social consequences, excluded social groups, macrolevel analyses, and normative and political issues.

We are studying here a model of social influence in which actors are dwelling upon asocial networ... more We are studying here a model of social influence in which actors are dwelling upon asocial network and are influencing/influenced by each other through the recurrent and reproduced pattern of their relationships. Furthermore, we assume that influence outcomes represent preference orderings (among a number of alternatives) and, thus, they are located on a certainrelational structure (a graph of orderings). Because of the structural arrangement of influenceoutcomes, actors’ orderings may occupy antipodal positions. In this setting, after following asocial influence process of random dyadic interactions among actors, the system is stabilized(absorbed) by two possible configurations of actors’ influence outcomes: either a unanimousarrangement of orderings or a polarization across dipoles of antipodal orderings. We conductcomputer simulations in order to study how this process of polarized social influence depends oncertain parameters of the system (such as the size and connectivity of t...

Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 2007

In this paper we establish asymptotic (biasymptotic) equivalence between spaces of solutions of a... more In this paper we establish asymptotic (biasymptotic) equivalence between spaces of solutions of a given linear homogeneous system and a perturbed system. The perturbations are of either linear or weakly linear characters. Existence of a homeomorphism between subspaces of almost periodic and asymptotically (biasymptotically) almost periodic solutions is also obtained.

Let us first start with a brief discussion of the very fundamental definitions of the theory of f... more Let us first start with a brief discussion of the very fundamental definitions of the theory of formal languages (standard references are the books of Lewis & Papadimitriou, 1998, and Hopcroft et al., 2001). An alphabet Σ is a (finite or countably infinite) set of symbols. A string over this alphabet is any finite sequence of symbols. Typically, a string w over Σ will be written as w= α1α2··· αk, for some α1, α2,..., αk∈ Σ. The string without any symbols is called empty string and it is denoted by ε. We denote by {w} the set of symbols contained in the ...

In many questionnaire data, we might have each respondent declaring affiliation within one or mor... more In many questionnaire data, we might have each respondent declaring affiliation within one or more among N organizations. Often instead of organizations we have affiliations within types of organizations. Here, without any loss of generality, we will be talking of organizations even if we were referring to types of organizations and we are going to use the abbreviations 'org'and 'orgs' for organization and organizations, respectively.

Given the increased penetration of information technologies in private, domestic, public and work... more Given the increased penetration of information technologies in private, domestic, public and working spaces and environments, the diffusion of these technologies becomes a very important issue to study. In general, theories of technological innovations analyse the mechanisms of socio-economic processes underlying diffusion (Rogers, 1983; Flichy, 1995; Valente, 1995). According to the pioneering work of Everett Rogers (1983), the eventual adoption of a technological innovation depends on the following five factors:(i) the relative ...

Cyberspace tends to occupy a growing part of the social realities of a lot of people today. But t... more Cyberspace tends to occupy a growing part of the social realities of a lot of people today. But the anticipations of many that this symbolic world would become a more righteous realm, in which physical markers such as gender, age, body type, race would eventually lose salience as a basis for the evaluative categorization of self/other, are rather questionable as to whether they correspond to what really is happening. This belief or hope was (and for some still is) based on the logic that because bodily features are not obviously discernible in ...

It is a commonplace in social movement theory to assert the importance of frame alignment (Snow e... more It is a commonplace in social movement theory to assert the importance of frame alignment (Snow et al., 1986), counter frames (Gamson, 1988), cognitive processes (Eyerman & Jamison, 1991), meaning work or master frames (Snow & Benford, 1992), through which mobilizers try to legitimize and extend their counter-hegemony in society (see, for instance, della Porta et al., 2006, for an analysis of the meaning work and the master frames of contemporary transnational activism).

Abstract. Our aim here is to plead for the significance of cultural considerations of overlapping... more Abstract. Our aim here is to plead for the significance of cultural considerations of overlapping inter–attitudinal patterns right next to well established structural considerations of interorganizational networks based on overlapping membership patterns. In particular, we examine how the analytic methodological incorporation of cultural attributes or attitudes might enhance our understanding of structural community categorizations in interorganizational networks. For this purpose, we analyze data of the International Peace ...

In this exploratory paper we use social network analysis to reveal a number of structural aspects... more In this exploratory paper we use social network analysis to reveal a number of structural aspects of the actor networks that have developed during two recent European policy conflicts about intellectual property rights. Using statistical indicators we can identify distinctive relational patterns for different actor types. Using exponential random graph models we demonstrate how the two actor networks differed in their overall structure of interaction.

Many sociologists today subscribe to the idea that the kind of ontology, which is pertinent to so... more Many sociologists today subscribe to the idea that the kind of ontology, which is pertinent to social phenomena, is relational ontology. In his avid 'manifesto for relational sociology,'Mustafa Emirbayer (1997) describes relational ontology as the social ontology, which conceives the social world primarily constituted rather by relations than by substances. Although philosophically the idea can be traced back to the ancient times (Heraclitus), the relational perspective was posited among some of the founders of ...

spatial type, but rather performs itself in a recursive and topologicallyheterogeneous manner&quo... more spatial type, but rather performs itself in a recursive and topologicallyheterogeneous manner"(p. 641). From this point of view, it is interesting to exploresuch spatialities-as networks, fluids and chaos-not as the material carriers or thetypified niches of social action but as the situated socially topologies, which enableand frame social performances. A particular consequence of this way to see networks, fluids and chaos might beuseful in order to settle down the open accounts these notions carry over from thesciences where they ...

The notion of relation is as old as philosophy itself. It appears in philosophy in a great deal o... more The notion of relation is as old as philosophy itself. It appears in philosophy in a great deal of ways: As a logical problem or a controversy. As an interpretative, representational, functional, formative or constitutive idea. As an idea of how things are or thought to exist, appear and express themselves. Or how they are actually articulated or disposed, intrinsically or extrinsically, intramentally or extramentally, substantively or figuratively, in realist or conceptual schemes and so on. But beyond the ubiquity and immanence of ...

Abstract. The aim of this article is to develop a graph–theoretic methodology for the study of mu... more Abstract. The aim of this article is to develop a graph–theoretic methodology for the study of multiplexity in multigraphs, which may also be coupled with hypergraphs. In fact, multigraphs here are assumed to be generated by attributes taking multiple values on the edges of a given graph. Moreover, even the vertices of this graph might also possess some attributes and, in this sense, the graph might be seen as a bybrid of a multigraph and a hypergraph (over the same set of vertices). Furthermore, if each simple graph included in the ...

Civil societies and social movements: …, 2007

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie, 2003

Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 2007

In this essay, we intend to reflect philosophically on two salient features, which are often rais... more In this essay, we intend to reflect philosophically on two salient features, which are often raised in the theorizing of dynamic social networks. The first is the idea that the dispersed pattern of interdependences among actors diffuses along the network and reshapes the distribution of prestige and power of individual actors. Consequently, what a network constitutes is an entity which is completely different from the mere aggregation of the enlisted actors. Some well known examples of this feature are social capital, the network effect (or externality), network flexibility, resilience, vulnerability, failure etc. The second feature of our motivation is the high degree of adaptability and innovativeness that social networks might exhibit in the adoption and diffusion of novel ideas, behaviors, practices etc. However, this feature has to be seen also in the negative sense as a risk which might lead to segregation or cleavability or possibly to an emergence of discrepant components or clusters of actors. This second feature in both aspects is quite important in organizational studies, theories of collective action, behavioral studies, social psychology etc. What we are going to discuss here concerns certain philosophical approaches which might elucidate the speculative origins of these two network features. Focusing on the great German idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, we are going to examine how his speculative-dialectic method has paved the way to the ideas of immanent power (or " self-determinacy ") and " plastic " malleability, which translate in the philosophical jargon the network features of our interest. However, a negative spillover effect of the speculative understanding of networks turns out to be the uncontrollable proliferation of mediating relations which escalate dramatically the number of emerging worldly networks. We claim that an effective resolution to the paradox of the exorbitant scale might be given by the very notion of plasticity envisioned as the absolute Idea of metamorphosis.

Τα τελευταία χρόνια, τα δίκτυα έγιναν πολύ της µόδας. Σ’ οποιαδήποτε όμως περίπτωση, η ιδέα τ... more Τα τελευταία χρόνια, τα δίκτυα έγιναν πολύ της µόδας. Σ’ οποιαδήποτε όμως περίπτωση, η ιδέα του δικτύου στηρίζεται πάνω στην έννοια των σχέσεων μεταξύ διαφόρων παραγόντων και καταστάσεων, που είναι φορείς δράσης για έναν επιχειρούμενο μετασχηματισμό κάποιου τομέα του κόσμου. Γι’ αυτό, τα τελευταία χρόνια, παρατηρείται μια αναβίωση του ενδιαφέροντος για τα σχεσιακά κοινωνικά φαινόμενα και τη λογική των κοινωνικών σχέσεων. Περίπου τέτοια –τουλάχιστον ως προς το γενικότερο πλαίσιό της– είναι κι η στροφή, που επεχείρησε να κάνει ο μεγάλος Γάλλος φιλόσοφος Alain Badiou, όπως έχει ήδη επισημανθεί από τον Peter Hallward πριν λίγα χρόνια στο βιβλίο του για τον Badiou.