CHANGING SOCIAL VALUES AND MUSIC

The Role of Virtual Media in Changing Social Values with an Emphasis on Telegram and Facebook Social Networks

This study aims to investigate the role played by social networks, including Facebook and Telegram, in changing the social life styles of the young and middle-aged generations of Iranian society. The research method consists of survey group of 512 people of the young and middle-aged generations selected from 5 provinces using multi-stage cluster sampling. Data were collected using a research-ma...

Primary care: core values. Core values in a changing world.

In 1920, the Dawson report advocated a population based approach to the organisation of health services, the allocation of resources, and the training of health care staff. It also introduced the concepts of primary and secondary levels of care and of primary care health centres. For several decades these ideas lay dormant, until medical specialisation, fragmentation of health services, and the...

Mining Music Social Networks for Automating Social Music Services

Community-driven services compile data provided by the community members, for instance playlists in Web 2.0 music sites. We show how this data can be analysed and knowledge about sequential associations between songs and artists can be discovered. While most of this kind of analysis focus on (symmetric) similarity measures, we intend to discover which songs can “musically follow” others, focusi...

Social Context and Absolute Music

Structural Approach to Changing Organizational Cultural Values

Changing organizational cultural values involves a revelation of desired organizational cultural values and internalization of these values by employees. A value structure engendered by existing relations among values serves as kernel of a suggested structural approach to changing organizational cultural values. The value structure allows to introduce a concept of structural complexity internal...