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Although, in theory, the conscientiousness of college students should reduce their aggressive behavior, the basic process underlying this relationship remains unknown. This study investigated the relationship between the conscientiousness of college students and their cyber aggression,
the mediating effect of online moral anger, and the moderating effect of gender. Participants were 92 college students, who completed a survey questionnaire about their conscientiousness, cyber aggression, and online moral anger. The results showed that conscientiousness negatively predicted
the cyber aggression of college students. Further, online moral anger partially mediated the link between conscientiousness and cyber aggression, and the mediating effect of conscientiousness on cyber aggression was moderated by gender, with the effect only observed in male students. The results
indicate that the conscientiousness of college students can reduce cyber aggression, and male college students can reduce cyber aggression through appropriately displaying enhanced moral anger.

Although anger tends to lead to aggressive behavior, the underlying processes that moderate this relationship are largely unknown. Our aim with this study was to explore the relationship between adolescents' online anger and cyber aggression and the moderating effect of seeking
online social support. Participants were 509 Chinese adolescents who completed anonymous questionnaires about seeking social support, online anger, and online aggression. Cyber aggression had a significant negative correlation with seeking social support and a significant positive correlation
with online anger. This direct association between online anger and cyber aggression was moderated by seeking social support online, such that the positive relationship between online anger and cyber aggression was significant only among adolescents low in seeking online social support. These
results suggest that seeking online social support can mitigate cyber aggression among adolescents in the context of mild online anger.

The 1998 housing reforms in Chinese cities have played a substantial role in setting social transition in motion. Not only has it produced an urban middle class of homeowners but it has also powerfully patternized collective mobilization. Fieldwork conducted in Shanghai reveals that homeowner communities living in 'commercialized apartments' (CAs) versus 'government-sold apartments' (GSAs) undertake distinct types of collective action. CA owners contentiously defend their rights and interests, whereas GSA owners remain compliant and lobby for welfare subsidies. This distinction in collective mobilizations between homeowners seems to originate in the distinct sources of homeownership. The logic of state capitalism underlies CAs and that of socialist patriarchy underlies GSAs. Analyzing a couple of mobilization episodes, the authors, by theory of contentious politics, focus on exploring the crucial mechanisms in the process of mobilization to explain why in the different settings the similar mechanisms have produced different outcomes. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

Part 1 New Mobilities Theory -- Chapter 1 Introduction Probing Mobilities Politics in Globalized China -- Chapter 2 Brokerage as a Heuristic Framework of Im/mobilities Politics -- Part 2 Selling Goods via Social Media -- Chapter 3 Platformized Service Labor and Mobile Micro-Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 (Un)Doing Gender via Mobile Platform-Based Trading -- Part 3 Purchasing Goods on Multiple Sites.-Chapter 5 Consuming Places and Communicating Mobilities in Purchasing -- Chapter 6 (Dis)Embedded Place-Making via Mobile Purchasing -- Part 4 Delivering Goods Cross Borders -- Chapter 7 Bodily (Un)Crossing Borders via Mobile Mediated Logistics -- Chapter 8 Organized Informality and Structurally Differentiated Mobilities -- Chapter 9 Conclusion Multiplying Brokerage Relations and Mobilities Politics.

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Theoretical Foundations of Total Socioenvironmental System (TSES) -- 1.1 Socioenvironmental Coevolution Theory -- 1.2 Coevolution in Geography -- 1.3 Coevolution in Sustainable Development and Urban Design -- 1.4 A Total Socioenvironmental System (TSES) -- References -- Chapter 2: Analytical Frameworks of TSESs -- 2.1 Current Analytical Frameworks -- 2.1.1 Coupling Several Models into a Modeling Framework -- 2.1.2 Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework -- 2.1.3 Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, and Indicator-Based Modeling Framework -- 2.1.4 Machine Learning and Computation-Based Modeling Frameworks -- 2.1.5 Ecological-Economics Modeling Framework -- 2.1.6 Spatial Autocorrelation Modeling Framework -- 2.2 Limitations of Current Frameworks and Unique Requirements of TSESs -- 2.2.1 Limitations of Current Frameworks -- 2.2.2 Unique Requirements of TSESs -- 2.3 Technical Approaches for Implementing the TSES Analytical Framework -- References -- Chapter 3: Building Temporally Compatible TSES Dataset -- 3.1 The Case Study Datasets -- 3.2 Trend Extraction Methods -- 3.2.1 Time-Series Data Mining for Extracting Seasonal Trends -- 3.2.2 Computational Data Mining and Residuals through Empirical Mode Decomposition -- 3.2.3 Hybrid Computational Learning (HCL) -- 3.3 Stationarity Tests and Non-stationarity Removals -- 3.3.1 Stationarity Test with Uni-section Time-Series Data -- 3.3.2 Stationarity Test with Panel Time-Series Data -- 3.4 Validity of Time-Series Data Transformation -- 3.5 Potential Applications of Time-Series Data Transformation -- References -- Chapter 4: Empirically Investigating Time-Series Causality Between Grassland Productivity and Socioenvironmental Factors: Inner Mongolia as a Case Study -- 4.1 Causal Structures of Grassland Deterioration.

This book presents a new analytical framework and several newly developed quantitative methods to investigate the interactions between climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic factors as a total socioenvironmental system (TSES). Facing the increasingly imperiled ecosystems around the world, understanding the complex relationships between humans and environments is of utmost importance. This book offers several solutions to these challenges based on the author's research and illustrates them with case studies and annotated data sets. It develops the conceptual framework of a TSES, emphasizing the identification of causal relationships as a starting point to investigating the interactions between biophysical phenomena and socioeconomic factors. The book experiments with various spatial data assimilation techniques such as GIS for matching diverged areal units over which biophysical and socioeconomic datasets are collected. Trend extraction methods including machine learning for synchronizing distinct temporal rhythms hidden in biophysical and socioeconomic phenomena to augment their causal relationships are explored as well. The book also examines sustainability in urban systems, social systems, and ecosystems. This volume will be useful to readers across many disciplines, including but not limited to geographic information science, ecological informatics, environmental informatics, regional and urban modeling, quantitative social sciences and planning.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Internationalizing the Social Sciences in China: An Introduction -- 1.1 Statement of the Problem -- 1.1.1 The Evolution of the Global Social Sciences -- 1.1.2 The Internationalization of Higher Education in China -- 1.1.3 The International Visibility and Influence of China's Social Sciences -- 1.1.4 In the Spotlight: The Global Vision and Achievements of Tsinghua University -- 1.1.5 Opportunities and Challenges for Tsinghua's Social Sciences -- 1.2 Research Questions -- 1.3 Methodological Considerations -- 1.3.1 Rationales for Adopting the Case Study -- 1.3.2 Rationales for Adopting Tsinghua's Sociology as the Case -- 1.4 The Significance of the Study -- 1.4.1 Theoretical Significance -- 1.4.2 Practical Significance -- 1.5 Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 The Evolution of the Social Sciences and Global Academic Relations: A Theoretical Reflection -- 2.1 Studies on the Internationalization of Higher Education -- 2.1.1 Understanding the Internationalization of Higher Education -- 2.1.2 Internationalization Versus Globalization -- 2.2 Studies on Academic Disciplines and the Social Sciences -- 2.2.1 Comprehending Academic Disciplines -- 2.2.2 Classification of Academic Disciplines -- 2.2.3 Theories of the Academic Discipline -- 2.3 A Review of International Academic Relations in the Social Sciences -- 2.3.1 The Uneven Internationalization of the Social Sciences -- 2.3.2 Challenging Euro-American Domination -- 2.3.3 A Multi-polarized Academic World -- 2.3.4 A Revolution in the Global Social Sciences? -- 2.4 Summary -- References -- 3 The Internationalization of the Social Sciences in Chinese Universities: A Historical and Critical Perspective -- 3.1 The Social Sciences in Imperial China (1840-1912): The Emerging Disciplines.

"What is a meme? What is in a meme? What does 'living in/with memes' actually mean? What do memes mean to human beings dwelling in a life-world at once connected and fragmented by the internet and social media? Answers to and ways of answering these and other meme questions that arise in social events represent human assistance in or resistance to meaning making. A pragmatic perspective on internet memes as a way of seeing in social life experience offers a unique window on how meme matters in mediated (inter)actions turn out to be inextricably intertwined with human beings' presencing and essencing in the life-world. Ultimately, this volume seeks to reveal what and how serious if not unsayable concerns can be concealed behind the seemingly humorous, carefree and colorful carnival of internet memes across cultures, contexts, genres and modalities. This book will be of some value to anyone keen on the dynamics of memes and internet pragmatics and on critical insights that can be garnered in kaleidoscopic multimodal communication. Originally published as special issue of Internet Pragmatics 3:2 (2020)"

Intro -- Preface: Some Questions Concerning the Thing "(Im)politeness" -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Approaching (Im)politeness Philosophically -- References -- Social (Im)politeness -- Mobile (Im)politeness: The View from Pragmatics -- 1 Introduction: Politeness and Mobility -- 2 Urgency and Importance: An Encounter on the Streets of Rome -- 3 "Vellere Coepi" ('I Started Grabbing' -- Serm. I: ix, 63) -- 4 Of Toga- and Other Grabbings -- 5 Disorder in the Concert Hall: Of Body Postures and Movements -- 6 The Importance of Being Polite: Saving Face -- 7 Territory of Information and Mobile Impoliteness -- 8 Mobile (Im)politeness in Practice: Modesty and the Jesuit Order's Rules -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Politeness as Social Artistry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Politeness as an Applied Aesthetic Judgment -- 2.1 The Art of Agreeableness -- 2.2 Politeness and Personal Style -- 2.3 Criticisms of Politeness -- 2.4 Partial Politeness -- 2.5 The Value of Partial Politeness -- 3 The Dinner Party and the Orienting Values of Politeness -- 3.1 Staying in the Moment: Music and Games -- 3.2 The Tension that Fuels Lively Interactions -- 4 Conclusion: Politeness and Authenticity -- References -- The Social and Epistemic Benefits of Polite Conversations -- 1 Introduction: What is Politeness? -- 2 The Social Rationality of Politeness -- 2.1 Social Contexts and Social Rationality -- 2.2 Social Rationality as the Rationality of Conversations -- 2.3 Why Politeness is Socially Rational -- 3 The Epistemic Benefits of Polite Conversations -- 3.1 Beliefs that Are Both Epistemically Costly and Epistemically Beneficial -- 3.2 What Are the Epistemic Benefits of Polite Conversations? -- 3.3 An Objection to the Epistemic Benefits of Polite Conversations -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Normative (Im)politeness.