As Social Network Sites (SNS) permeate our daily routines, the question whether participation results in value for SNS users becomes particularly acute. This study adopts a 'participation-source-outcome' perspective to explore how distinct uses of SNS generate various types of social capital benefits. Building on existing research, extensive qualitative findings and an empirical study with 253 ...

We investigated how positive affectivity influences people's perception of the pat terns of social relationships around them. Positive affectivity was measured as trait positive affect. The outcome variable was accuracy in the perception of informal patterns of social interaction in a group (i.e., the group's network structure). Data on the perception of the relationships of friendship and work...

contemporary iranian society is transiting from traditional outlook to modern attitudes. social chaos matched with behavioral and thinking chaos is characteristic of transition period. political structure, as a part of society, alongside the juridical, economic and social structure is transiting from traditional sovereignty to intellectual and legal one. political participation, as a tangible a...

Development and usage of online social networking web sites are growing rapidly. Millions members of these web sites publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations and share user-created contents, such as photos, videos, files, and blogs. The advances in web designing technology and fast growing usage of online resources prompted web designers to improve features and architectures of social ...

Social networks have become extremely popular in recent years. A new requirement of connecting physical devices into social networks is emerging gradually. In this paper, we propose a case study to explore the effectiveness of connecting devices into mobile social networks for status monitoring and controlling. In our work, we developed iGreenhouse, a greenhouse can post its environment informa...

Social network surveys are an important tool for empirical research in a variety of fields, including the study of social capital and the evaluation of educational and social policy. A growing body of methodological research sheds light on the validity and reliability of uni-dimensional social network survey data, but much less attention has been paid to the measurement of multi-dimensional net...

What is Social Network Analysis? The Social Network Approach Units of Analysis Relations Ties Multiplexity Composition Beyond the Tie Social Networks Two Views: Ego-Centered and Whole Networks Network Characteristics Partitioning Networks Groups STUDYING ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS, by Laura Garton... http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue1/garton.html 1 of 32 9/21/11 11:24 AM Positional Analysis Networ...

Social network analysis investigates the structure of relations amongst social actors. A general approach to detect patterns of interaction and to filter out irregularities is to classify actors into groups and to analyze the relational structure between and within the various classes. The first part of this paper presents methods to define and compute structural network positions, i. e., class...

A Social Network Group (SNG) in the context of this paper is a group of people who come together to form a small scale business. The relationship between them is business. This paper provides a formal framework for SNGs and also models a rudimentary framework for collaborations among SNGs. The chief functionality of SNGs is to execute tasks, which forms the basic reason for collaborations. So, ...