Browsing by Subject "social networks"

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    Cognitively Stimulating Environments and Cognitive Reserve: The Case of Personal Social Networks
    (Elsevier, 2022-04) Peng, Siyun; Roth, Adam R.; Apostolova, Liana G.; Saykin, Andrew J.; Perry, Brea L.; Neurology, School of Medicine
    Cognitively stimulating environments are thought to be protective of cognitive decline and onset of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) through the development of cognitive reserve (CR). CR refers to cognitive adaptability that buffers the impact of brain pathology on cognitive function. Despite the critical need to identify cognitively stimulating environments to build CR, there is no consensus regarding which environmental determinants are most effective. Rather, most studies use education as proxies for CR and little is known about the association between older adults’ personal social networks and CR. Using neuroimaging data from 135 older adults participating in the Social Networks in Alzheimer Disease (SNAD) study, this article adopted a residual method for measuring CR and found that large network size, high network diversity, and loosely connected networks were positively associated with greater CR. These results suggest that expansive social networks in later life may constitute cognitively stimulating environments which can be leveraged to build CR and reduce the burden of ADRD.
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    A Decade of Facebook: Can We Still Be Friends?
    (2013-12) Lamb, Annette; Johnson, Larry
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    Infrastructures for Empowering Networks To Promote Equitable and Inclusive Change
    (2024) Price, Jeremy
    Dr. Price discuss his work on creating equitable, inclusive, and supportive learning environments through community-engaged research. He and his team have partnered with families, educators, and institutions on projects like a statewide initiative for culturally responsive remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, and efforts in the Near East Side of Indianapolis to develop place-centered, culturally sustaining STEM learning environments. Join this conversation to learn how Dr. Price has transformed theoretical frameworks from the social studies of science and technology into practical strategies and concrete infrastructures for effective community collaboration.
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    Key Words in Instruction: Social Technology and Social Networks
    (2007-01) Lamb, Annette; Johnson, Larry
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    Letters from a Young Painter Abroad: James Russel in Rome, 1740-63
    (Walpole Society, 2012) Kelly, Jason M.
    James Russel was an English artist and antiquary who lived in Rome between 1740 and 1763. At one time he was among the foremost ciceroni in Italy. His patrons included Richard Mead and Edward Holdsworth. Andrew Lumisden, the Secretary to the Young Pretender, wrote that Russel was his 'ingenious friend'. Despite his centrality to the British Grand Tour community of the mid eighteenth century, scholars have virtually ignored him. Instead, they favor his fellow artists, such as Robert Adam and William Chambers, and other antiquaries, such as Thomas Jenkins, James Byres, and Gavin Hamilton. Nevertheless, Russel's career gives insight into the British community in Italy at the dawn of the golden age of the Grand Tour. His struggles as an artist reveal the conditions in which the young tyros laboured. His rise to prominence broadens what we know about both the British and Italian artistic communities in eighteenth-century Rome. And, his network of patrons reveals some of the familial and political connections that were necessary for social success in eighteenth-century Britain. In fact, the experience of James Russel reveals the importance of seeing Grand Tourist and expatriate communities as extensions of domestic social networks. Like eighteenth-century sailors who went to sea, these travelers lived in a world apart that was nevertheless intimately connected to life at home.
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    Regime fatigue : a cognitive-psychological model for identifying a socialized negativity effect in U.S. Senatorial and Gubernatorial elections from 1960-2008
    (2014-07-11) Giles, Clark Andrew; Weiden, David L.; Ferguson, Margaret Robertson; Dusso, Aaron
    This research project proposes to try to isolate and measure the influence of “regime fatigue” on gubernatorial elections and senatorial elections in the United States where there is no incumbent running. The research begins with a review of the negativity effect and its potential influence on schema-based impression forming by voters. Applicable literature on the topics of social clustering and homophily is then highlighted as it provides the vehicle through which the negativity effect disseminates across collections of socially-clustered individuals and ultimately contributes to changing tides of public opinion despite the fact that the political party identification can remain relatively fixed in the aggregate.
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    Social Network Decay as Potential Recovery from Homelessness: A Mixed Methods Study in Housing First Programming
    (MDPI, 2017-09) Golembiewski, Elizabeth; Watson, Dennis P.; Robison, Lisa; Coberg, John W.; Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health
    The positive relationship between social support and mental health has been well documented, but individuals experiencing chronic homelessness face serious disruptions to their social networks. Housing First (HF) programming has been shown to improve health and stability of formerly chronically homeless individuals. However, researchers are only just starting to understand the impact HF has on residents’ individual social integration. The purpose of the current study was to describe and understand changes in social networks of residents living in a HF program. Researchers employed a longitudinal, convergent parallel mixed method design, collecting quantitative social network data through structured interviews (n = 13) and qualitative data through semi-structured interviews (n = 20). Quantitative results demonstrated a reduction in network size over the course of one year. However, increases in both network density and frequency of contact with network members increased. Qualitative interviews demonstrated a strengthening in the quality of relationships with family and housing providers and a shedding of burdensome and abusive relationships. These results suggest network decay is a possible indicator of participants’ recovery process as they discontinued negative relationships and strengthened positive ones.
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    Social Networks and Charitable Giving: Trusting, Doing, Asking, and Alter Primacy
    (Sage, 2018-04) Herzog, Patricia Snell; Yang, Song; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    This study examines social networks and financial giving to charitable or religious causes. Conventional social capital measures of general social trust and size of social network are studied as predictors of charitable giving. To these traditional measures, we add an examination of particular network aspects of giving: ego giving in relation to network alters who give, solicitations to give by network ties, and ego soliciting alters to give. In addition, the study disaggregates alter effects by alter position. Findings indicate that, net of social trust, social network factors significantly predict likelihood of being a giver. In particular, findings are that egos are especially likely to be donors when their primary alter donates. Three configurations of ego–alter giving and solicitations are significant predictors of ego giving, indicating that ego–alter doing matters more than asking. Theoretical contributions for relational and prosocial studies are discussed, as are practical implications for fundraising professionals.
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    Want To Be My Friend? What You Need to Know About Social Technologies
    (2006-10) Lamb, Annette; Johnson, Larry