The purpose of this exploratory study is threefold: first, to analytically explore the boundary conditions of the robust existence of spiral of silence; second, to gauge how social interactions influence the formation of spiral of silence; third, to analyze the dynamic characteristics of the process in the aspect of size-dependent and time heterogeneity. By proposing an agent-based model of spi...

A problem-based learning (PBL) assumption is that silence is incompatible with collaborative learning. Although sociocultural studies have reinterpreted silence as collaborative, we must understand how silence occurs in PBL groups. This essay presents students’ explanations of dominance, leadership, and silence as PBL group roles. An ethnographic investigation of PBL groups, informed by social ...

Mainly for economic and maintainability reasons, more and more dependable real-time systems are built from Commercial OO-The-Shelf (COTS) components. To build these systems, a commonly-used assumption is that computers are fail-silent. The goal of our work is to determine how far it is possible to reach the fail-silence assumption for computers executing a real-time run-time support built exclu...

Whistleblowing is defined by the retaliation that those who speak out receive. Why some organizations find it almost impossible not to retaliate depends more on the properties of the organization than the act of the individual whistleblower. These properties are, to greater or lesser degree, present in all organizations. Not all organizations retaliate against whistleblowers, but the whistleblo...

For athletic coaches, there are many methods to coach athletes. One method that may not be as common, or even thought of coaching, is silence. Silence when the does speak but thinking specific team, player, and competitor items. The purpose this study was interview consistently successful high school baseball coaches with an emphasis on their silence a coaching behavior. Five in southeastern Un...