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Transformation of social relationships in COVID-19 America: Remote communication may amplify political echo chambers

The COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of Americans compelled to stay home and work remotely, presented an opportunity to explore the dynamics of social relationships in a predominantly remote world. Using the 1972-2022 General Social Surveys, we found that the pandemic significantly disrupted the patterns of social gatherings with family, friends, and neighbors, but only momentarily. Drawing from the nationwide ego-network surveys of 41,033 Americans from 2020 to 2022, we found that the size and composition of core networks remained stable, though political homophily increased among non-kin relationships compared to previous surveys between 1985 and 2016. Critically, heightened remote communication during the initial phase of the pandemic was associated with increased interaction with the same partisans, though political homophily decreased during the later phase of the pandemic when in-person contacts increased. These results underscore the crucial role of social institutions and social gatherings in promoting spontaneous encounters with diverse political backgrounds.

Fig. 2 in Social Behavior and Communication in the Neotropical Cicada Fidicina mannifera (Fabricius) (Homoptera: Cicadidae)

Fig. 2. Waveforms of two signals of Fidicina mannifera. (A) One complete call; (B) Twelve pulses from a calling song. Total X axis length is 280 ms in (A) and 18 ms in (B).

Fig. 1 in Social Behavior and Communication in the Neotropical Cicada Fidicina mannifera (Fabricius) (Homoptera: Cicadidae)

Fig. 1. Audiospectrograms of four acoustic displays in the repertoire of Fidicina mannifera. (A) Song; (B) Calls, given in alternation by two males (numbers below the calls identify the caller); (C) Low-amplitude song; (D) Disturbance sound.

Fig. 3 in Social Behavior and Communication in the Neotropical Cicada Fidicina mannifera (Fabricius) (Homoptera: Cicadidae)

Fig. 3. Proportion of calls vs. songs given by male Fidicina mannifera in relation to nearestneighbor distance. Note that the relationship with distance is not linear (fitted curve is logarithmic).

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Replication package: Dataset and stata-do-file for analysis in "Intragroup communication in social dilemmas: An artefactual public good field experiment in small-scale communities"

This dataset was used for the analysis in "Intragroup communication in social dilemmas: An artefactual public good field experiment in small-scale communities". The data was collected in Namibia in 2017 as part of the SASSCAL research project by Nils Christian Hoenow and Adrian Pourviseh as members of the Chair for Development and Cooperative Economics at the University of Marburg. Funded by the Southern African Science Service Center for Climate Change and Adaptive Land-UseManagement (SASSCAL) through the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Grant No. 01LG1201B).   Article Title: Intragroup communication in social dilemmas: An artefactual public good field experiment in small-scale communities  Authors: Nils Christian Hoenow* and Adrian Pourviseh**   *RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen, Germany and & School of Business and Economics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany **School of Business and Economics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany Abstract:  Communication is well-known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind this remain largely unclear. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous experimental findings, we observe a strong increase in cooperation when face-to-face communication is allowed before decision-making. We additionally introduce a condition in which participants cannot discuss the dilemma but talk to their group members about an unrelated topic prior to learning about the public good game. It turns out that this condition already leads to higher cooperation rates, albeit not as high as in the condition in which discussions about the social dilemma are possible. The setting in small communities also allows investigating the effects of pre-existing social relationships between group members and their interaction with communication.We find that both types of communication are primarily effective among socially more distant group members, which suggests that communication and social ties work as substitutes in increasing cooperation. Further analyses rule out better comprehension of the game and increased mutual expectations of one’s group members’ contributions as drivers for the communication effect. Finally, we discuss the role of personal and injunctive norms to keep commitments made during discussions.

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Viral Communication: Longitudinal Survey Data on the Social Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

This dataset represents the anonymised data collected as part of the Viral Communication (Understand-ELSED) project, which focussed on the social and ethical dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. It includes the three measurements; Phase I (30 October 2020 and 14 December 2020), Phase II (2 March 2021 and 22 March 2021) and Phase III. The first phase built the foundation for the wider suite of data collection approaches and research methods used in the Viral Communication project by allowing respondents to opt-in to multiple research pathways. Overall sample frame (Phase I): N = 1480 Phase II sample frame: N = 482 Phase III sample frame: N = 426 Computed variables such as weights, groupings (experimental set-ups), and composite scores are included in the dataset.

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Plains zebra time budgets, social behavior, and communication during the 2021-2022 Laikipia-Samburu ecosystem drought

Anthropogenically induced climate change has significantly increased the frequency of acute weather events, such as drought. As human activities amplify environmental stresses, animals may be forced to prioritize survival over behaviors less crucial to immediate fitness, such as socializing. Yet, social bonds may also buffer organisms from the deleterious effects of environmental conditions. We investigated how the highly social plains zebra (Equus quagga) modify their activity budgets, social networks, and multimodal communication during a drought. This dataset contains a) activity budget, b) steps per minute as a proxy for foraging effort, c) nearest neighbor association data, d) interaction rate, e) juvenile social interaction partner data, and f) multimodal communication data.

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PERCEIVE The use of social media in EU policy communication and implications for the emergence of a European public sphere

This data set contains the underlying data of the paper “The use of social media in EU policy communication and implications for the emergence of a European public sphere”, published by The Journal of Regional Research - Investigaciones Regionales (ISSN: 1695-7253; E-ISSN: 2340-2717) in 2019. Data openly available within this dataset are a subset of the two following data sets, which contains all the relevant data of Work Package 3 and Work Package 5 of PERCEIVE project: <ul> <li>Data set: “PERCEIVE: WP3: Effectiveness of communication strategies of EU projects” <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3371133">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3371133</a></li> <li>Data set: “PERCEIVE: WP5: The multiplicity of shared meanings of EU and Cohesion Regional and Urban Policy at different discursive levels” <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3371174">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3371174</a></li> </ul> For the paper we collected Facebook posts referred to EU CP policies. We don’t have the permission to share these data (as they are protected by copyright), but all the sources are described in Deliverable 5.2, which is public (see <a href="http://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/5726">http://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/5726</a> or <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1318184">http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1318184</a>). We analyzed the textual content of data to construct a database of discursive topics in Task5.4. Data set includes the results of topic modeling and of a sentiment analysis performed on the Facebook homepages of Local Management Authorities (LMA) of PERCEIVE case study regions.

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Open Chat Series: How-to-Advocacy "Why advocate for open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities?"

On the 21.10.2022 Alíz Horváth, researcher, expert in East Asian studies, creator of “Humanista” podcast - and member of OPERAS's Special Interest Group "Advocacy" moderated an Open Chat with our guest speaker Per Pippin Aspaas, Head of Library Research and Publishing Support at the UiT in Tromsø, discussing the question "Why advocate for scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities?"

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Using Social Virtual Reality in Teaching Intercultural Communication

This data represents the supplementary material for the journal article with the above title submitted to Technology, Knowledge and Learning.   The supplementary material contains: <ol> <li>the interview guideline for the group of the class that was taught in the online remote study using video conferencing tools only</li> <li>the interview guideline for the group of the class that was taught in the online remote study using video conferencing tools and additional social virtual reality sessions</li> <li>the quantitative survey questionnaire that was sent to both groups</li> </ol>

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Social signal learning of referential communication in a social insect

This is the dataset for a paper showing that honey bees can use social learning to improve their waggle dancing.

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Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice

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Data from: Fish communicate with water flow to enhance a school's social network

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Plains zebra time budgets, social behavior, and communication during the 2021-2022 Laikipia-Samburu ecosystem drought

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Data from: The evolutionary origins of natural pedagogy: Rhesus monkeys show sustained attention following nonsocial cues versus social communicative signals

The natural pedagogy hypothesis proposes that human infants preferentially attend to communicative signals from others, facilitating rapid cultural learning. In this view, sensitivity to such signals are a uniquely human adaptation and as such nonhuman animals should not produce or utilize these communicative signals. We test these evolutionary predictions by examining sensitivity to communicative cues in 206 rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) using an expectancy looking time task modeled on prior work with infants. Monkeys observed a human actor who either made eye contact and vocalized to the monkey (social cue), or waved a fruit in front of her face and produced a tapping sound (nonsocial cue). The actor then either looked at an object (referential look) or looked towards empty space (look away). We found that, unlike human infants in analogous situations, rhesus monkeys looked longer at events following nonsocial cues, regardless of the demonstrator's subsequent looking behavior. Moreover, younger and older monkeys showed similar patterns of responses across development. These results provide support for the natural pedagogy hypothesis, while also highlighting evolutionary changes in human sensitivity to communicative signals.

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Epigenetic Profiling of Social Communication Trajectories and Co-occurring Mental Health Problems: A Prospective, Methylome-wide Association Study

While previous studies suggest that both genetic and environmental factors play an important role in the development of autism-related traits, little is known about potential biological mechanisms underlying these associations. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), we examined prospective associations between DNA methylation (DNAm: N-birth=804, N-age7=877) and trajectories of social communication deficits (8-17 years). Methylomic variation at three loci across the genome (false discovery rate=0.048) differentiated children following high (n=80) versus low (n=724) trajectories of social communication deficits. This differential DNAm was specific to the neonatal period and not observed at age 7. Associations between DNAm and trajectory membership remained robust after controlling for co-occurring mental health problems (i.e., hyperactivity/inattention, conduct problems). The three loci identified at birth were not replicated in the Generation R Study. However, to the best of our knowledge, ALSPAC is the only study to date that is prospective enough to examine DNAm in relation to longitudinal trajectories of social communication deficits from late childhood to late adolescence. Although the present findings might point to potentially novel sites that differentiate between a high versus low trajectory of social communication deficits, the results should be considered tentative until further replicated. This dataset contains summary statistics for the methylome-wide association study using DNAm data collected from individuals at birth. Upload of this dataset was completed by The EWAS Catalog team. The data can be queried along with hundreds of other EWAS at ewascatalog.org. To upload your EWAS summary statistics and have a zenodo DOI generated for you go to ewascatalog.org/upload

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Novel Science communication – how to build public health knowledge across the social gradient. The Healthy Choices Project (WP5).

Everyday life consists of hundreds of choices of which many may have an impact on our health. The citizens of the modern Nordic welfare states are in general well-educated and thus can be assumed to know what is best for them. Despite this our health care systems face an increasing burden of lifestyle related diseases and there is a difference across the social gradient. Here building public health knowledge through communication is key. The reason for people making unhealthy choices are many and can be that; they do not know what is good for them (lack information) or do not understand (lack understanding) or do not care (carelessness). However it seems likely that it is more complex than that. Maybe they do not receive the information, because gets conveyed through channels that they do not consult or maybe the format of the message does not ‘click’? Could it be, that ‘one media message or channel does not fit all’?  Over the last decades there has been an increased focus from both scientists themselves and politicians to scientific and practical field of ‘science communication’. Consequently, various advanced modes of communicating e.g. health issues to the general populations have been developed, and today scholars of Mass Media term this development the ‘scientification’ of media. Furthermore, media and information availability has exploded since the emergence of the Internet in the early 1990s. Research has indicated that social gradient also is a factor affecting a person’s media consumption and habit.   In the healthy choices project we aim through novel methods to learn more about these challenges and at the develop new methods of conveying public health knowledge to enable people to make healthier choices across the social gradient. We have so far built a framework for this including a science group, consisting of public health experts, and a communication group consisting of experienced science communicators. The Science group is consulted about risk factors and health endpoints and what to prioritize. Two PhD students will be involved in; 1) assessing media consumption and usage related to health issues across social classes (Low social gradient versus high social gradient) and across the generational gap (young and elderly) and 2) develop and test various media message formats for target groups including considerations of the social gradient. This project will provide new understanding on how to communicate public health messages and reduce social inequalities in health.

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Descriptive Study on Nursing Students' Interest in Using Digital Communication and Social Media in their Field after Covid-19

This paper is about Descriptive study of nursing students' interest in using Digital communication in their field after Covid 19. Digital communication and social media have massive social interaction among community users that generate an extensive amount of data. The study was conducted in the faculty of nursing at Najran University, King Dome of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A descriptive correlational research design was followed in this study Sample: 300 nursing students. The first tool: is the interview sheet. Include two parts: Part (1) student personal data. Part (2) the nursing students' interest in Digital communication and social media. The second tool: - a questionnaire to Measure nursing students' knowledge about using Digital communication and social media in their field. Results: (74.7%) of nursing students were interested in Digital communication, and more than half (55.3 %) knew about Digital communication and social media, there's a statistical association between the academic level and students' interest. Provide special education about Digital communication to improve students' knowledge in the health field for using after covid 19, In-service Training for Various Digital communication and social media platforms. dissemination of the findings of this research study to the public and private healthcare organizations

Fig. 4 in Social Behavior and Communication in the Neotropical Cicada Fidicina mannifera (Fabricius) (Homoptera: Cicadidae)

Fig. 4. Parallel walk display between two male Fidicina mannifera on the same tree trunk.