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Social control in information systems development

Information Technology & People, 1999
Examines sources of control over information system development decisions. Although past research has examined sources of internal organizational control that were solely determined by technical/rational goals, this article analyzes the symbolic role of social institutions in exerting control over system development decisions.
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Misperceived Neighborhood Values and Informal Social Control

Justice Quarterly, 2010
Social disorganization theory explains the effects of neighborhood structure and culture on crime and delinquency. Within this perspective, the role of neighborhood informal social control is argued to be an important protective factor against many social problems.
Barbara D. Warner, Keri Burchfield
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Information and Social Control Systems

1975
My purpose today is to describe to you what I think are some implications of developments in information technology for social control. Before doing so I would like to describe to you what I understand to be some indications about the nature of social control as they can be derived from experimental research in social psychology, and the role which I ...
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Using social network analysis to inform disease control interventions

Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2016
Contact patterns between individuals are an important determinant for the spread of infectious diseases in populations. Social network analysis (SNA) describes contact patterns and thus indicates how infectious pathogens may be transmitted. Here we explore network characteristics that may inform the development of disease control programes.
Nelly, Marquetoux, Mark A, Stevenson, Peter, Wilson, Anne, Ridler, Cord, Heuer   +4 more
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Impaired executive control of emotional information in social anhedonia

Psychiatry Research, 2012
We examined the executive control of emotional information and its relationship to social functioning in individuals at risk for schizophrenia, defined by high social anhedonia (SA). Using the same structure as the Attentional Network Test (ANT), we developed a measure of executive control of emotional information (ANT-Emotion) in which subjects ...
Laura M, Tully, Sarah Hope, Lincoln, Christine I, Hooker   +2 more
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Privacy and Information Markets: Controlling Information Flows in Decentralized Social Networking

2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing, 2011
The contribution motivates a substantial conceptual overlap between privacy control and potential information markets in decentralized contextual Social Networking and suggests substituting appropriate means for controlling outgoing and incoming information flows as the key problem of both points of view.
Georg Groh, Stefan Birnkammerer
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Models of Informational Control in Social Networks

2018
In this chapter, we develop and study game-theoretic and optimization models and methods of informational influence and control in social networks.
Alexander G. Chkhartishvili, Dmitry A. Gubanov, Dmitry A. Novikov   +2 more
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Dynamic models of informational control in social networks

Automation and Remote Control, 2010
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Barabanov, I. N., Korgin, N. A., Novikov, D. A., Chkhartishvili, A. G.   +3 more
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INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL AND COMMUNITY CRIME PREVENTION

The British Journal of Criminology, 1995
The absence of informal social control is frequently thought to play a major role in levels of crime. Tet relatively little research has focused directly on the role of informal social control in high crime areas. This article based on ethnographic research describes a London housing estate that had statistically higher than average rates of crime and ...
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Information Control, Transparency, and Social Media

2017
Although the research linking social media and corruption is still in infancy, it provides important insights. It has been shown that social media can prove to be an important tool in fighting corruption. At the same time, freedom on the net is under threat in many parts of the world with governments using a variety of methods, including designing ...
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