The aim of this paper is to show that there is a reciprocal dependency relationship between social cognition and social ontology. It is argued that, on the one hand, the existence conditions of socially meaningful objects and of social groups are about sucjets’ social cognitive processes and interactive patterns and, on the other hand, social cognitive processes and interactive patterns are mod...

BACKGROUND Social networking services (SNSs) contain abundant information about the feelings, thoughts, interests, and patterns of behavior of adolescents that can be obtained by analyzing SNS postings. An ontology that expresses the shared concepts and their relationships in a specific field could be used as a semantic framework for social media data analytics. OBJECTIVE The aim of this stud...

social entities like roles and institutions. What they might have been in illiterate foreign cultures is almost impossible to find out, and even with literate societies it is often difficult, since their signs and languages are social entities themselves and hard to access. Let it suffice with these remarks on social ontology. They are neither systematic nor particularly revealing. Their only p...

In order to participate in storyworlds with rich social interaction, autonomous characters must be able to participate in social games. A social game is a multicharacter social interaction whose function is to modify the social state existing within and across the participants, possibly concurrently accomplishing a functional (nonsocial) state change. In this paper we present an autonomous char...

Social Networking Services (SNS) provide users with functionalities for developing their on line social networks, connecting with other users, sharing and consuming content. While most of popular SNS provide open Web 2.0 APIs, they remain disconnected from each other thus fragmenting user's data, social network and content. Semantic social web technologies such as public vocabularies and ontolo...

Ecological psychology is built on a perception-oriented ontology. The primary focus has been explaining the perception and action behavior of individual animals. To accommodate social phenomena within ecological approach, it necessary to expand ontology, however theorists have unclear about how do this. paper presents negative argument positive programmatic outline. against use term ‘social aff...

In this paper, we propose to investigate three main social ontological schools – practice theory, assemblages theories and actor-network theory – to focus on the assemblage theory, and to clarify social ontology underlying the last one, for finally discussing its contribution in the debate on the philosophies of the (social)Web, in order to specify what social ontology for social web.

Abstract Rights and obligations—sometimes referred to as deontology or deontic powers—are key most contemporary conceptions of social ontology. Both Cambridge Social Ontology the dominant analytic conception associated, prominently, with John Searle, place rights obligations at centre their accounts. Such a common emphasis has led some consider be point similarity between these different theori...