Unavowable Communities

Explaining theComponents of Sustainability in Urban Communities

Community is the main pillar of the urban body; and balance of social life in cities depends on preserving communities. During the twentieth century, the idea of residential-centered community has been offered in many modern theories and has been widely accepted for solving urban various problems such as management, social and human relations, health and welfare issues and aspects of meaning an...

The Physical Factors Affecting the Social Livability of Gated Communities: A Case study of Gated Communities in Tehran

Despite negative perspectives on their consequences, gated communities continue to spread in cities due to structural reasons such as globalization and economic neo-liberalism. Hence, there is a need to seek for a way of achieving a balance and make these communities livable. Due to agreement with economic market perspectives, livability principles might offer a solution for mediating the socia...

Communities of Performance & Communities of Preference

The current generation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) operate under the assumption that good students will help poor students, thus alleviating the burden on instructors and Teaching Assistants (TAs) of having thousands of students to teach. In practice, this may not be the case. In this paper, we examine social network graphs drawn from forum interactions in a MOOC to identify natural ...

From Communities to Mobile Communities of Values

Commercializing Online Communities: From Communities to Commerce

This article presents a theory of dynamic virtual communities. It places the communities into a matrix according to the commercial purpose and organizational structure. The model is then elaborated upon to show the dynamic nature of virtual communities. The descriptions of the model attempts to show the differences between different types of communities from a common point of view. The model at...