All Outputs (12)

The bond and retention of Chinese seafarers for international shipping companies: a survey report (2021)
Journal Article

The shortage of junior seafarers in China in recent years raises a salient question as to how international shipping companies can improve retention rates among Chinese crews. This issue has become increasingly prominent in the context of a global lo... Read More about The bond and retention of Chinese seafarers for international shipping companies: a survey report.

Bridging social capital as a resource for rural revitalisation in China?: A survey of community connection of university students with home villages (2019)
Journal Article

Rural China faces many challenges, including outmigration, brain drains, and the hollowing out and decline of villages. This paper offers a response by drawing attention to the phenomenon of “community connection” among migrants in urban areas who tr... Read More about Bridging social capital as a resource for rural revitalisation in China?: A survey of community connection of university students with home villages.

Understanding the relationship between collective intelligence and entrepreneurial team performance through online creative problem-solving (2018)
Conference Proceeding

The early stages of entrepreneurial activity offer invaluable insights into the emergence and development of business opportunities. With converging evidence indicating a key role for " collective intelligence " in predicting team performance across... Read More about Understanding the relationship between collective intelligence and entrepreneurial team performance through online creative problem-solving.

Social media and the future of creativity at work (2018)
Book Chapter

Over the last decade social media have played an increasingly prevalent role in work-related creativity, whether enabling employees to shape their career paths via the phenomenon of personal branding or laying the groundwork for the emergent gig econ... Read More about Social media and the future of creativity at work.

Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges (2017)
Journal Article

This article addresses the general ethical issues of accessing online personal data for research purposes. The authors discuss the practical aspects of online research with a specific case study that illustrates the ethical challenges encountered whe... Read More about Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges.

Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering (2015)
Book Chapter

Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In... Read More about Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering.

Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters (2015)
Journal Article

Personal service customization, or personalization, is one of the core tools that are being used by on-line providers of information services such as search engines, social media, news sites and product recommender systems to optimize the individual... Read More about Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters.

Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections (2015)
Journal Article

A quick journey through prevention science (e.g., substance misuse prevention) and a comparison between online and offline risks, harm, and vulnerability in children suggests that new approaches and interventions are needed to promote Internet safety... Read More about Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections.

Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research (2015)
Journal Article

In this paper, we outline an online survey-based study seeking to understand academic attitudes towards social media research ethics (SMRE). As the exploratory phase of a wider research project, findings are discussed in relation to the responses of... Read More about Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources (2015)
Conference Proceeding

With the rising popularity of public and semi-public communication channels such as Blogs (late 1990s), Wikipedia (launched in 2001), Facebook (launched in 2004), Reddit (from 2005) and Twitter (from 2006), the Internet has become an increasingly fer... Read More about Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources.

Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research (2015)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper we argue for the position that responsible safeguards for privacy and ethical treatment of human data are of vital importance to retain the public confidence and trust that is necessary for the development and future success of internet... Read More about Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

Understanding the Social Media Ecologies of Employees Within Higher Education Institutions: A UK-Based Case Study (2014)
Book Chapter