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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-01-2020
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12652
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-04-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JASP.12378
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1998
Abstract: This paper reviews the varying and contrasting ways in which stereotypes, as representations of groups, and stereotyping as an activity, have been constructed and understood within contemporary social psychology. These distinct theoretical approaches include the dominant social cognitive tradition, which views stereotypes as cognitive schemas that simplify reality, and self-categorization theory, which views stereotypes as psychologically valid representations which reflect the actualities of intergroup relations. We articulate how more social and collective accounts based on social representations theory, ideology and discursive psychology can enrich our understanding of stereotypes and stereotyping. Stereotypes are not the product of in idual cognitive activity alone, but are also social and collective products which function ideologically by justifying and legitimizing existing social and power relations within a society. We also discuss recent contributions to the enduring enigma within social psychology regarding the relationship between stereotypes and social reality, and identify the inherent ideological problems which plague positivist attempts to explicate this relationship. Finally, we discuss the need for an integrative social psychological theory of stereotyping which links the cognitive and psychological analyses of stereotyping to more social, structural and discursive analyses.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-04-2013
Abstract: To date, there is no ‘gold standard’ on how to best measure public climate change beliefs. We report a study ( N = 897) testing four measures of climate change causation beliefs, drawn from four sources: the CSIRO, Griffith University, the Gallup poll, and the Newspoll. We found that question wording influences the outcome of beliefs reported. Questions that did not allow respondents to choose the option of believing in an equal mix of natural and anthropogenic climate change obtained different results to those that included the option. Age and belief groups were found to be important predictors of how consistent people were in reporting their beliefs. Response consistency gave some support to past findings suggesting climate change beliefs reflect something deeper in the in idual belief system. Each belief question was assessed against five criterion variables commonly used in climate change literature. Implications for future studies are discussed.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-08-2015
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2756
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-11-2013
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1743
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 14-10-2020
Abstract: (1) Background: My Health Record (MHR) is a relatively new nationwide Australian digital health record system accessible by patients and a range of healthcare professionals. Pharmacists will be key contributors and users of the MHR system, yet little is known about the perceived barriers and benefits of use. (2) Objective: To explore pharmacists’ perspectives related to potential benefits and barriers associated with use of MHR. (3) Methods: An online survey was developed and face-validated. The survey was advertised to Australian pharmacists on pharmacy professional bodies’ websites. This was a cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the distribution of the data. Chi-square, Kendall’s tau coefficient (tau-c) and Kruskal–Wallis tests were used to examine the relationships where appropriate. (4) Results: A total of 63 pharmacists completed the survey. The majority of respondents worked in a metropolitan area (74%), and the most common workplace setting was community pharmacy (65%). Perceived benefits identified by responders include that the use of MHR would help with continuity of care (90%), and that it would improve the safety (71%) and quality (75%) of care they provided. Importantly, more than half of pharmacists surveyed agreed that MHR could reduce medication errors during dispensing (57%) and could improve professional relationships with patients (57%) and general practitioners (59%). Potential barriers identified by pharmacists included patients’ concerns about privacy (81%), pharmacists’ own concern about privacy (46%), lack of training, access to and confidence in using the system. Sixty six percent of respondents had concerns about the accuracy of information contained within MHR, particularly among hospital and general practice pharmacists (p = 0.016) and almost half (44%) had concerns about the security of information in the system, mainly pharmacists working at general practice and providing medication review services (p = 0.007). Overall satisfaction with MHR varied, with 48% satisfied, 33% neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and 19% dissatisfied, with a higher satisfaction rate among younger pharmacists (p = 0.032). (5) Conclusions: Pharmacists considered that the MHR offered key potential benefits, notably improving the safety and quality of care provided. To optimize the use of MHR, there is a need to improve privacy and data security measures, and to ensure adequate provision of user support and education surrounding the ability to integrate use of MHR with existing workflows and software.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-12-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-05-2014
Publisher: Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID)
Date: 05-05-2015
Abstract: Climate change is a political as well as an environmental issue. Climate change beliefs are commonly associated with voting behaviour, but are they associated with swings in voting behaviour? The latter are arguably more important for election outcomes. This paper investigates the predictive power of these beliefs on voting swings at the 2010 Australian federal election after controlling for a range of other related factors (demographic characteristics of voters, different worldviews about nature and the role of government, and the perceived opportunity cost of addressing climate change). Drawing on data from two nationally representative surveys of voters and data from the Australian Electoral Commission, this paper investigates relationships between climate change beliefs and voting swings at both the in idual and electorate levels. At an in idual level, a hypothetical 10% change in climate change beliefs was associated with a 2.6% swing from a conservative Coalition and a 2.0% swing toward Labor and 1.7% toward the Greens party, both left on the political spectrum. At the electorate level, this equates to a shift of 21 seats between the two main political parties (the Coalition and Labor) in Australia’s 150 seat parliament, after allocating Green preferences. Given many seats are marginal, even modest shifts in climate change beliefs can be associated with changes in electoral outcomes. Thus, climate change is expected to remain a politically contested issue in countries like Australia where political parties seek to distinguish themselves, in part, by their responses to climate change.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-03-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-1980
DOI: 10.1038/285450A0
Abstract: Deletions spanning portions of the heavy chain constant region (CH) locus in murine plasmacytomas are revealed by hybridization with cloned immunoglobulin DNA molecules. The pattern of deletions suggests that a lymphocyte clone switches expression of CH genes by successive deletions and that the probable CH gene order is 5' mu-gamma 3-gamma 1-gamma 2b-gamma 2a-alpha 3'.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-02-2015
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1992
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-05-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-07-2008
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 16-01-2019
Abstract: To qualitative researchers, social media offers a novel opportunity to harvest a massive and erse range of content, without the need for intrusive or intensive data collection procedures. However, performing a qualitative analysis across a massive social media data set is cumbersome and impractical. Instead, researchers often extract a subset of content to analyze, but a framework to facilitate this process is currently lacking. We present a four-phased framework for improving this extraction process, which blends the capacities of data science techniques to compress large data sets into smaller spaces, with the capabilities of qualitative analysis to address research questions. We demonstrate this framework by investigating the topics of Australian Twitter commentary on climate change, using quantitative (Non-Negative Matrix inter-joint Factorization Topic Alignment) and qualitative (Thematic Analysis) techniques. Our approach is useful for researchers seeking to perform qualitative analyses of social media, or researchers wanting to supplement their quantitative work with a qualitative analysis of broader social context and meaning.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-10-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-07-2016
Abstract: Political will for action on climate change requires support from the electorate and low levels of climate change skepticism. Rational models suggest that skepticism influences voting behavior however, other theories suggest the reverse direction of influence may also hold. There is a body of research on associations between climate change skepticism and political preferences, but this has been limited to cross-sectional analyses. This article uses longitudinal data and cross-lagged modeling to infer the direction of influence in a post-election context. We found that voting behavior influenced climate change skepticism after an election more than climate change skepticism influenced voting intentions. This suggests that partisan politics increases fluctuations in climate change skepticism, and there may be more or less opportune times to pursue climate change policies. Similar research is now needed in pre- and mid-election cycle contexts to determine the direction of influence over the election cycle.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2019
DOI: 10.5694/MJA2.50000
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-04-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2002
DOI: 10.1348/014466602760060264
Abstract: In many westernized countries, organ donation rates are low in comparison with the need for life-saving organ transplants, and are at odds with generally high community endorsement of organ donation. This is particularly true for Western Australia, the location of this study. This contradiction between endorsement and donation is investigated within a framework that draws from Moscovici's (1984) theory of Social Representations, Guimelli's (1998) differentiation between normative and functional dimensions of the central core, and Billig's (1988) rhetorical position on the role of argumentation in discourse. Four focus group discussions on organ donation and transplantation were conducted. Analysis of the discourse suggests that the social representation of organ donation and transplantation can be understood best as a representational field organized around two dialectically 'opposed' images-the gift of life and the mechanistic removal and replacement of body parts. The normative and functional expression of these two images as a pro-donation stance and a qualified pro-donation stance is discussed, as is the role of argumentation in the production of a social representation.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 27-06-2023
Abstract: Taking action on the big problems in society is often precipitated by feelings of anger. This has been demonstrated reliably for responses to social inequality, but less for other issues. Here, we expand on recent research documenting the positive association between anger about climate change and pro-environmental action, and the negative association with psychological distress, and focus also on the contents of eco-anger. Using a general population s le of 5,244 Australians, we find that 48.6% are at least ‘somewhat’ angry about climate change. Content analyses of the focus of this anger reveal erse reasons for people’s anger. The most common focus is others’ inaction and apathy on climate change, followed by anger directed at deniers, and at big polluters. Altogether, we identify 13 major categories of anger in our corpus of data, and show their different associations with eco-emotions, pro-environmental behaviour, and distress. Our findings suggest that emotional and behavioural engagement with climate change partly depends on why people are angry.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.743
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-05-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-1989
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.1989.68.3.715
Abstract: Pettigrew's (1958) construct of category width has been an enigma for the past three decades. His scale is highly reliable and appears to have good construct validity, but relationships with other variables are far from clear. We report a serendipitous finding which relates a new construct of neophilia (openness to novel information) to category width. The empirical results are promising and a conceptual argument is made that neophilia may help integrate some literature on category width.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-03-2023
DOI: 10.1186/S12904-023-01137-0
Abstract: Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe and profoundly impact the end-of-life care experience, including service provision. There is a paucity of research examining healthcare workers’ experiences in responding to care demands when disasters strike. This research aimed to fill this gap by exploring end-of-life care providers’ perceptions of the impact of natural disasters on end-of-life care. Between Feb 2021-June 2021 ten in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare professionals providing end-of-life care during recent natural disasters, COVID-19, and/or fires and floods. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using a hybrid inductive and deductive thematic approach. The overarching theme from the healthcare workers’ accounts was of being unable to provide effective compassionate and quality care - “I can’t make all this work.” They spoke of the considerable burdens the system imposed on them, of being overextended and overwhelmed, having their roles overturned, and losing the human element of care for those at end-of-life. There is urgent need to pioneer effective solutions to minimise the distress of healthcare professionals in delivering end-of-life care in disaster contexts, and to improve the experience of those dying.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-07-2014
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2039
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-08-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AJSP.12423
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-05-2014
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 11-02-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0246058
Abstract: Recent research promotes comparing the current state of the environment with the past (and not the future) to increase the pro-environmental attitudes of those on the political right. We aimed to replicate this temporal framing effect and extend on research in this area by testing the potential drivers of the effect. Across two large-scale replication studies, we found limited evidence that past comparisons (relative to future comparisons) increase pro-environmentalism among those with a more conservative political ideology, thus precluding a full investigation into the mediators of the effect. Where the effect was present, it was not consistent across studies. In Study One, conservatives reported greater certainty that climate change was real after viewing past comparisons, as the environmental changes were perceived as more certain. However, in Study Two, the temporal framing condition interacted with political orientation to instead undermine the certainty about climate change among political liberals in the past-focused condition. Together, these studies present the first evidence of backfire from temporal frames, and do not support the efficacy of past comparisons for increasing conservatives’ environmentalism. We echo recent calls for open science principles, including preregistration and efforts to replicate existing work, and suggest the replication of other methods of inducing temporal comparisons.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 22-02-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-1987
Abstract: A study of a s le of unemployed people is reported in which survey interview data were used to examine the differential effects of different forms of deprivation. Two outcome variables were operationalized: the number of stress symptoms reported by the respondents and the respondents' orientation to social protest. Two different measures of egoistic deprivation (the perceived gap between personal expectations and attainments) and two different measures of fraternalistic deprivation (the perceived gap between ingroup and outgroup attainment) were also obtained. It was hypothesized that the measures of egoistic relative deprivation would predict the number of stress symptoms reported better than would measures of fraternalistic relative deprivation. Conversely, fraternalistic relative deprivation measures were hypothesized to predict protest orientation better than would the egoistic relative deprivation measures. Multiple regression analyses bore out these hypotheses. The results underline the importance of the conceptual distinction between egoistic and fraternalistic relative deprivation for explaining the social behavior of the deprived.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-02-2021
Abstract: To explore whether a support-based intervention for informal caregivers of people with heart failure changes their psychosocial and emotional wellbeing. Background Successful self-management of heart failure includes addressing the psychosocial and emotional wellbeing needs of informal caregivers. However, there is limited evidence of how caregivers are supported in this way. A rapid review was conducted searching four electronic databases with restrictions to dates January 1996 – September 2019. Specific inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, and the first author reviewed articles based on title, abstract and then full text, before articles were assessed for conclusions and outcomes. Six studies met the criteria for review. The key caregiver outcomes were burden, depression/anxiety, and quality of life. Significant reductions in caregiver burden were demonstrated in the three studies that measured this outcome. There were mixed results for the outcome measures of depression/anxiety, as well as quality of life, with some interventions demonstrating either significant reductions in depression or anxiety scores, or increases in quality of life scores. With only six studies included in this rapid review, it is not possible to make any definitive conclusions regarding the success, or otherwise, of interventions for caregivers of people with heart failure to improve their psychosocial and emotional wellbeing. Whilst some papers would tend to suggest that such interventions can reduce caregiver burden, there is a need to interrogate further interventions in this area to fill the current gap in the literature.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2020
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.2474
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-05-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-02-2019
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.2395
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-07-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 06-10-2022
Abstract: Mounting evidence suggests members of the general public are not homogeneous in their receptivity to climate science information. Studies segmenting climate change views typically deploy a top-down approach, whereby concepts salient in scientific literature determine the number and nature of segments. In contrast, in two studies using Australian citizens, we used a bottom-up approach, in which segments were determined from perceptions of climate change concepts derived from citizen social media discourse. In Study 1, we identified three segments of the Australian public (Acceptors, Fencesitters, and Sceptics) and their psychological characteristics. We find segments differ in climate change concern and scepticism, mental models of climate, political ideology, and worldviews. In Study 2, we examined whether reception to scientific information differed across segments using a belief-updating task. Participants reported their beliefs concerning the causes of climate change, the likelihood climate change will have specific impacts, and the effectiveness of Australia's mitigation policy. Next, participants were provided with the actual scientific estimates for each event and asked to provide new estimates. We find significant heterogeneity in the belief-updating tendencies of the three segments that can be understood with reference to their different psychological characteristics. Our results suggest tailored scientific communications informed by the psychological profiles of different segments may be more effective than a `one-size-fits-all' approach. Using our novel audience segmentation analysis, we provide some practical suggestions regarding how communication strategies can be improved by accounting for segments' characteristics.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-08-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-07-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 03-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1999
Abstract: The theory of relative deprivation (RD) distinguishes between personal and group RD, and links the two to personal and group identity. Models linking RD and identity suggest that identity causally precedes RD. These models are extended in the present study to allow for causal effects of RD on personal and group esteem. An experiment is reported which was designed to examine the causal effects of personal and group RD on personal self-esteem and collective self-esteem. It was predicted that experiencing personal RD would lower personal self-esteem but would not affect collective self-esteem, and, conversely, that experiencing group RD would lower collective self-esteem but would not affect personal self-esteem. The results of a 2 (sex of subject) X 2 (sex of others in group: either 3 males or 3 females) X 2 (reward condition: fair or unfair) experiment supported this prediction for personal self-esteem, but only partially supported the prediction for collective self-esteem. The implications of the results for understanding the failure of RD to translate into action, and the usefulness of the experimental paradigm for inducing personal or group RD are briefly discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2004
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.771
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 17-03-2021
DOI: 10.1136/BMJSPCARE-2021-002973
Abstract: Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, and place additional strains on end-of-life care services and users. Although end-of-life and palliative care are considered essential components of disaster planning and response, there are gaps in understandings about their real-life application, and how natural disasters impact end-of-life care. To synthesise existing evidence of the impacts of natural disasters (eg, bushfires, communicable pandemics, etc) on end-of-life care. A systematic review with a narrative synthesis was undertaken. The review was registered on PROSPERO (registration: CRD42020176319). PubMed, Scopus, PsycINFO, Science Direct and Web of Science were searched for studies published in English between 2003 and 2020, with findings explicitly mentioning end-of-life care impacts in relation to a natural disaster. Articles were appraised for quality using a JBI-QARI tool. Thirty-six empirical studies met the inclusion criteria and quality assessment. Findings were synthesised into three key themes: impacts on service provision, impacts on service providers and impacts on service users. This review demonstrates that natural disasters impact profoundly on end-of-life care, representing a stark departure from a palliative care approach. Clinical practitioners, policy makers and researchers must continue to collaborate for viable solutions to achieve universal access to compassionate and respectful end-of-life care, during natural disasters. Using models, policies and practices already developed in palliative care, involving those most impacted in disaster planning and anticipating barriers, such as resource shortages, enables development of end-of-life care policies and practices that can be rapidly implemented during natural disasters.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-09-2014
Abstract: Heart transplantation is now routinely offered as a treatment for end-stage heart failure, and the “gift-of-life” metaphor has become pervasive in this context, forming the foundation on which transplantation discourses rest. In this article, we question organ-as-gift understandings of transplantation. One can also legitimately think of the transplanted organ as a donation, with distinct implications in terms of the transplantation experience for the recipient. We explored the transplantation experience of 13 heart recipients in Australia. We conducted semistructured interviews, and our interpretative phenomenological analysis of the data resulted in three themes: deservingness, nuances of gratitude, and giving forward. Our results indicate that differences between organ-as-gift and organ-as-donation understandings of transplantation are more than merely semantic. Organ-as-donation understandings raise the issue of deservingness, with recipients’ assessments of their worthiness influencing their posttransplant experience of gratitude and, ultimately, the meaning(s) gleaned from their transplant experiences.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2016
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S10584-022-03437-5
Abstract: Mounting evidence suggests members of the general public are not homogeneous in their receptivity to climate science information. Studies segmenting climate change views typically deploy a top-down approach, whereby concepts salient in scientific literature determine the number and nature of segments. In contrast, in two studies using Australian citizens, we used a bottom-up approach, in which segments were determined from perceptions of climate change concepts derived from citizen social media discourse. In Study 1, we identified three segments of the Australian public (Acceptors, Fencesitters, and Sceptics) and their psychological characteristics. We find segments differ in climate change concern and scepticism, mental models of climate, political ideology, and worldviews. In Study 2, we examined whether reception to scientific information differed across segments using a belief-updating task. Participants reported their beliefs concerning the causes of climate change, the likelihood climate change will have specific impacts, and the effectiveness of Australia’s mitigation policy. Next, participants were provided with the actual scientific estimates for each event and asked to provide new estimates. We find significant heterogeneity in the belief-updating tendencies of the three segments that can be understood with reference to their different psychological characteristics. Our results suggest tailored scientific communications informed by the psychological profiles of different segments may be more effective than a “one-size-fits-all” approach. Using our novel audience segmentation analysis, we provide some practical suggestions regarding how communication strategies can be improved by accounting for segments’ characteristics.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-10-2013
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2013
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 22-10-2021
Abstract: Vaccination intentions are widely regarded as in idual decision, resting upon in iduals’ attitudes and beliefs about the disease and their own health. In this research, we provide evidence that group factors, and more precisely, social cohesion — a multidimensional concept that encompasses one’s sense of connectedness to, and interrelations within, a group — can help us understand COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Using a representative s le of 3026 Australians, we first found evidence for the multidimensional structure of social cohesion, as a concept that includes positive social relations, social identification, and trust in government. Second, social cohesion assessed early in the COVID-19 pandemic predicted greater vaccination intention and lower perceived risk of vaccination four months later, after controlling for a series of demographic (i.e., sex, age, income) and health-related factors (i.e., subjective health perceived risk having been diagnosed with COVID-19). These results suggest that investments in social cohesion could have substantial and unexpected downstream benefits.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2017
Abstract: Sustainability policies shape the ways that society and the economy interact with the environment, natural resources and ecosystems, and address issues such as water, energy and food security, and climate change. These policies are complex and are, at times, obscured by contestation, uncertainty and sometimes ignorance. Ultimately, sustainability problems are social problems and they need to be addressed through social and policy change. Social Science and Sustainability draws on the wide-ranging experience of CSIRO’s social scientists in the sustainability policy domain. These researchers have extensive experience in addressing complex issues of society–nature relationships, usually in interdisciplinary collaboration with natural scientists. This book describes some of the evidence-based concepts, frameworks and methodologies they have developed, which may guide a transition to sustainability. Contributions range from exploring ways to enhance livelihoods and alleviate poverty, to examining Australians’ responses to climate change, to discussing sociological perspectives on sustainability and how to make policy relevant. Researchers, policy-makers and decision-makers around the globe will find this book a valuable and thought-provoking contribution to the sustainability literature. It is also suited to academics and students in postgraduate-level courses in social sciences and sustainability, or in courses in applied sociology, applied social psychology and other applied social sciences.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-04-2019
DOI: 10.3758/S13428-019-01202-8
Abstract: To qualitative researchers, social media offers a novel opportunity to harvest a massive and erse range of content without the need for intrusive or intensive data collection procedures. However, performing a qualitative analysis across a massive social media data set is cumbersome and impractical. Instead, researchers often extract a subset of content to analyze, but a framework to facilitate this process is currently lacking. We present a four-phased framework for improving this extraction process, which blends the capacities of data science techniques to compress large data sets into smaller spaces, with the capabilities of qualitative analysis to address research questions. We demonstrate this framework by investigating the topics of Australian Twitter commentary on climate change, using quantitative (non-negative matrix inter-joint factorization topic alignment) and qualitative (thematic analysis) techniques. Our approach is useful for researchers seeking to perform qualitative analyses of social media, or researchers wanting to supplement their quantitative work with a qualitative analysis of broader social context and meaning.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 30-11-2018
Location: United States of America
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End Date: 06-2026
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Funder: Australian Research Council
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