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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2015 11:46:29 GMT 3
The first WOK that we will be discussing is Emotion. To give you a good introduction to it, I will have you look at some real life situations about emotion from the news. Choose one of the following articles, read it in its entirety, and then respond to the knowledge questions. Your response should be at least two paragraphs in length. Post due by the end of the class period. _______________________ Facebook and personal well-being AoKs/WoKs: Emotion, human sciences KQs: Does social media interaction affect us in the same way as face-to-face interaction? To what extent do we gain a 'true' picture of other people's lives via social media? Does the internet reinforce relationships, or supplant them? Is virtual life replacing real life? Category: Article Link: www.bbc.com/news/technology-23709009Description: A new study suggests that using Facebook can lead to FOMO (feelings of missing out), and have a negative effect on one's sense of well-being. The article examines the reasons for this, as well as the wider implications of the way we're using social media. Source: BBC The literary cure AoKs/WoKs: Emotion, the arts, human sciences KQs: To what extent is mood dependent on the arts? What is the relationship between the arts and emotion? Category: Article Link: www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/18/novel-cure-elderkin-berthoud-reviewDescription: It is self-evident that listening to music, looking at a painting, or – in this case – reading a book, can change our mood. This article looks at the way in which literature helps to cure us of emotionally-related ailments, and can help to treat more serious cases of depression. Source: The Guardian Twitter as an emotional measure AoKs/WoKs: Emotion, human sciences, technology KQs: Is is possible to measure an entire country’s emotional state of being? Can social media be used as a way of gauging people’s emotions? Category: Article Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24001692Description: A new programme allows researchers to record and categorize Tweets sent by users of Twitter, and then compile them so they can be assessed according the mood of the person who posted them. The article looks at the possibilities of using this in order to judge the state of the whole country’s emotional state. Source: BBC |
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Post by abdulhadi aljeri on Feb 11, 2015 11:18:04 GMT 3
Mood is one of the important things and makes a huge difference on art because art becomes from a person and his arts dependt on his mood or feelings. The art comes from the person's emotion, if he was happy his art will be different than when he is sad.
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Post by Abdulrahman Al-Eidy on Feb 11, 2015 11:30:00 GMT 3
From my point of view, I think social media is a great source to study the way people think. It is very helpful to study there emotions and how they feel towards something.
I think that it is useful because you get to see the mentality of each individual, you get the chance of understanding him just by entering his twitter page. Although it is a great way to study an individual it is a really bad way to study groups of people. What I mean is that you can't judge a group of people by only looking at one account. Different people have different pages that have different emotions so it is a poor way to study the mentality of a group of people.
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Post by Mohammad Al Rasheedi on Feb 11, 2015 11:38:49 GMT 3
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Social media interaction doesn't affect us in the same way as face to face interaction, behind a screen (social media) you can get encouraged to do stuff you won't be able to do in real life (face-to-face). You can't get the "True" picture of a person in social media, you may only get their thoughts or what they are thinking about. I believe that the internet can reinforce and supplant relationships, because at the end it depends on the person himself. Virtual is not replacing real life, but it definitely plays a significant role in the real life.
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Post by Abdullah Al Busaili on Feb 11, 2015 11:39:23 GMT 3
Twitter as an Emotional Measure
With Emotive, it's easy to say that it's really possible. With the mass number of humans using twitter all over the world, and 350 million people tweet everyday, you can literally know the emotions of a nation without a question. It has been proven if a person was angry, happy, sad, etc. using this software and it was right most I the time. So yes this is not 100 percent accurate, but can surely measure an entire country's emotional state.
Yes I really really thinks so, because in social media people are tend to make groups to discuss serious diverse topics. This will gauge different people in different parts of the world, to have worn single emotion. People would also be fighting and having different emotions in a discussions, but we also do it in real life. It's true that social media, specifically twitter, could gauge people's emotions all through out the world, but isn't it scary to think that the world of internet is taking over us, and if yes, is that a good thing. ?
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Post by Ahmed AlMailam on Feb 12, 2015 12:57:01 GMT 3
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I believe that social media interaction does not affect us like face-to-face interaction. You can do things in social media that you can't do face-to-face. You can get in touch with other people. You can know what they are thinking or what ideas they have but without having them right in front of you.
I think that the internet helps with interaction but it really depends on the person. While the virtual world does not replace real life, it is still important. Many people use the internet and think that it is effective. Still, nevertheless, nothing replaces real life.
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Post by Yafea alMansoori on Feb 12, 2015 21:09:21 GMT 3
It is widely thought that the capacity of artworks to arouse emotions in audiences is a perfectly natural and unproblemmatic fact. It just seems obvious that we can feel sadness or pity for fictional characters, fear at the view of threatening monsters on the movie screen, and joy upon listening to upbeat, happy songs. This may be why so many of us are consumers of art in the first place. Good art, many of us tend to think, should not leave us cold.
These common thoughts, however natural they are become problematic once we start to make explicit other common ideas about both emotion and our relationship with artworks. If some emotions, such as pity, require that the object of the emotion be believed to exist, even though it actually doesn’t, how would it then be possible to feel pity for a fictional character that we all know does not exist? A task of fundamental importance, therefore, is to explain the possibility of emotion in the context of our dealings with various kinds of artworks.
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Post by Abdullah Al-Khezzi on Feb 15, 2015 7:35:44 GMT 3
It's the dumbest thing ever to say that social media interactions affect us the same way as face-to-face intraction. You should never say that social media replaces real life. There is a huge difference between contacting someone from behind a screen and seeing, touching, hearing, and even smelling the scent of someone. We gain a true picture about other people's lives to no extent. Through social media you get to have more relationships. However, these relationships tend to become very weak and with time your real relationships become weaker. At the end what will you gain from a weak relationship other than a fake lonely life?!
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Post by yousef al mesri on Feb 15, 2015 18:09:51 GMT 3
Facebook has been studied that may ruin peoples lifes in the past. Making them feel unwanted to society, but why does this make them feel this way. I think that this has a role in jelosy. People see others people's lives on there face book and make them feel jealous. Because of this it makes people feel like they arnt important and makes them feel sad. But can Facebook be blamed because of this? That answer is based on opinion but alot of people will have different answers. I think that yes they can be blamed because they made the privacy either very private or not private to the public. This was all cuased because of Facebook.
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Post by Mubarak alsabah on Feb 15, 2015 20:53:02 GMT 3
In my opinion Facebook is not a good place to meet people. The Facebook era is declining and Facebook has only ads and other stuff but it is not a good place to keep in touch with people who are near you, going out with them in person is ofcourse better. Facebook have only created problems like cyber bullying and getting the feeling that you are left out. You only get negative emotions the only positive thing from Facebook is to be in touch with friends that are far away from you.
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Post by Hisham AlEssa on Feb 15, 2015 22:00:48 GMT 3
No it's not possible to measure an entire country's emotional state of being by tweets. The reason for that you may find many hypocrites on social media saying something just to go with the flow even tho that person is really against that thing. People on social media can easily lie about their emotions, I can now tweet that I'm having the time of my life when in reality I'm typing up this post. Social media is a game, a game thats played world wide, and if you just do that one small mistake you're done. People feel powerful behind the screens but forget who they are when the screen is no longer there.
Social media cannot be a way of gauging people's emotions. The reason for that is maybe because in a certain country theres a group thats raging but at the same time theres another group thats so chill and isn't tweeting anything. As what was mentioned in the article that there are 500 million users on twitter and 340 million tweet daily. What if a country with a population of 2 million people, what if there are only 100,000 people who are a part of the 340 million who tweet daily and are mad as hell because of something happened. The other 1,900,000 are all happy and are all okay. You should also remember that people can easily lie about their emotions. Social media can gauge people's emotions but not as a nation.
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Post by Abdullah Al-Shuaib on Feb 15, 2015 23:16:43 GMT 3
No, i don't think that it is possible to measure an entire country's emotional state of being via twitter. I think that the sad peolpe uses twitter more than the happy people. The sad people uses twitter just to express what inside thaem and to let the sadness go away by tweeting some tweets. The happy people don't tweet that much because they are afraid by tweeting maybe something happens and they would lose their happines.
No, social media cannot be used as a way of gauging people's emotion. I think people in social media can easily lie. I think if you want to gauge people's emotion you must know him very well and maybe you must talk to him everyday.
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Post by Abdulwahab Jumah on Feb 15, 2015 23:51:19 GMT 3
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By posting ehat you feel this is expressing emotion bur in an undirect way. It's undirect because your not sending it to someone in speific and because it's on the internet. So they answer would be yes it's possible to measure the emotion because people are tweeting their own emotions. So it's easy to keep track and measure it. It's also easy to keep track on a continent because more than 300 million people use twitter daily.
Yes it could be used to gauging people emotions for seviral reasons. Because alot of people use twiiter it could capture their emotions easily. So they'd focus in specific topics that people fight over or talk about. Having twitter control our way of expressing emotion is bad because in real life we cant express our emotions. We will faces diffucilties opining up to people.
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Post by Ali Alhammadi on Feb 17, 2015 10:21:44 GMT 3
I think social media is a great way to discover how people is living. It is very helpful to study there emotions and how they feel towards something.
I think that it is useful because you can see how individuals communicate with each other and how the their traditions is. . Although it is a great way to study an individual it is a really bad way to study groups of people. WHich diiferent people has diffrent attitude in the social media which it shows their culture and traditions.
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