This article will demonstrate how the notion of 'phatic communion' has become an increasingly significant part digital media culture alongside rise online networking practices. Through a consideration new objects blogs, social profiles and microblogs, along with their associated practices, I argue, that contexts 'individualization' 'network sociality', technological developments pervasive communication 'connected presence' led to dominated by phatic communications. That is, communications...

Much of the work on estimating health care costs attributable to smoking has failed capture effects and related during pregnancy. The goal this study is use data behavior, birth outcomes resource utilization estimate neonatal maternal pregnancy.We 1995 from Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) database. PRAMS collects representative samples births 13 states (Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New York...

Apart from the exchanging of information, an important role conversation and communication is to promote social harmony through maintenance relationships. This referred as ‘phatic’ function communication. Indeed, digital communications technologies, media in particular, have been lauded for their potential activism change ‘raising awareness’ injustices, ability motivate people into political action facility organize coordinate that maximum effect. In this article, I build upon previous...

This paper examines a new form of philanthropic fundraising as pioneered by the YouTuber MrBeast. We argue that MrBeast, harnessing advertising revenue sharing model YouTube’s Partner Program, has created an innovative giving funded mobilising what Marxist communication theorists refer to ‘audience’ or ‘prosumer commodity’. Through this method, MrBeast been able use algorithmically managed, YouTube, and spectacle philanthropy, draw in ever larger audiences thus create large amounts...

This paper considers residential segregation by race and type of household in 1970 1980. The presents entropy indices for the San Francisco Bay Area its five metropolitan areas. methodology permits an investigation effects group definition upon measures, analysis degree independence households demographic group. results indicate that levels have declined modestly during 1970s, at least this region. More importantly, however, a remarkable spatial distribution Only very small fraction observed...

This article examines social media challenges that emerged in 2013, focusing on Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear. We understand them as ‘viral challenge memes’ manifest a set of consistent features, making distinctive phenomenon within digital culture. Drawing upon Tarde’s concept imitative-encounter, we highlight three central features: their basis belonging participation; role prestigious people groups determining spread challenges; techniques self-presentation...

This paper is a discussion about presence and its relationship to ethical moral behaviour. In particular, it problematises the notion of within contemporary culture in which social life increasingly lived experienced through networked digital communication technologies alongside physical co-present bodies. Using work Heidegger, Levinas, Bauman Turkle (among others), suggested that increasing use these our on-line environments challenges tendencies ground behaviours face-to-face or materially...

This paper is a theoretical investigation into the question of affinity and belonging in everyday life contexts. I argue that Sociology had tended to focus attention on conceptual binaries ‘individual/community’ or ‘individual/social structure’ when discussing experiences inclusion, solidarity social life. has meant such are generally conceived terms ‘a part of’ ‘apart from’. Such incidents which lie between these extremes may be intense, intimate meaningful, but at same time fluid,...

This paper considers the recent phenomenon of vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. act purposely driving a vehicle into pedestrians and populated vehicles. It documents (2015–2017) rise in prevalence ramming attacks how these incidents challenge some assumptions we have about terrorism its causes. Typically, criminologists terrorist scholars tend to focus on either 'psychology' individual terrorists or wider structural ethno-political issues, such as religion, ideological doctrine role...

Abstract This paper challenges Lefebvre's distinction between Representations of Space and Spaces Representation. Most current work in this area has assumed modernist conceptions power, thereby interpreting representations space (conceived space) as the property powerful who alone possess ability to abstract for their particular ends. Contrary Lefebvre, I suggest that representation abstraction are not agents state capitalism but also manifested 'counter' discourses. As an example a 'counter...

Abstract There is a tendency in the study of philanthropy to see each new innovation or movement as transformative and distinct from what has come before. Before MrBeast there was philanthrocapitalism before long will be another shiny toy for those us who research practice study. Happily, Rhodri Davies' analysis MrBeast's avoids falling into trap seeing novelty at every turn. Instead, he presents nuanced measured criticisms his philanthropic endeavours, weighing up where mud sticks it does...

This article contributes to current discussions of the spatial inspired by complexity theories that emphasize multiple and relational qualities space. It introduces concept vagueness “vague objects” relates these theory through intersubjective Alfred Schutz. The author argues a consideration vagueness, especially as constructed in Schutz’s version intersubjectivity, can provide insights (outside theorizations) into continuous multivalent nature social space relationships between experience,...

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This paper analyzes common confusions involving basic concepts in statistical hypothesis testing. One-third of the social science statistics textbooks examined study contained false statements about significance level and/or p-value. We infer that a large proportion scientists are being miseducated these concepts. analyze causes persistent misunderstandings, and conclude conventional terminology is prone to abuse because it does not clearly represent conditional nature probabilities events...

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In recent years, Geography has seen a rebirth of interest and appreciation ruins, abandoned neglected spaces industrial modernity. This work often emphasised the sensuousness material contextualisation ruins largely in terms phenomenological experience decay, disorder blight, or affective elements these through concepts such as ‘ghostliness’ ‘haunting’. article is an investigation into which do not have materiality temporality: digital ruins. Existing kind eternal present, yet still...