Thanks to the highly popular dual channel capabilities (e.g., GSM plus Bluetooth) in modern handheld personal communication devices, an integrated cellular and ad hoc peer-to-peer network (i.e., a quasi-ad hoc wireless network) has already been widely reckoned as a readily practicable and attractive mobile computing environment. In this paper, we propose a co-operative relaying scheme, called e...

This article considers young people’s identities and privacy on social network sites through reflection on the analogy of the teenage bedroom as a means to understand such spaces. The notion therein of intimate personal space may jar with the scope and complexity of social media and, particularly, with recent emphasis on the challenges to privacy posed by such environments. I suggest, however, ...

An online survey (N = 461) investigated how individuals' interpersonal need and ability affect their motivations of Twitter use and how different motivations predict specific usage behavior. Based on the two competing views concerning the antecedents and consequences of online communication (social enhancement vs. social compensation), the joint effect of affiliative tendency and communication ...

In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in the popularity of mobile wireless devices and networks, with greater attention devoted to feasibility of opportunistic computing, sensing, and communication. In Mobile Social Networks (MSNs), communication is provided by spatial proximity and social links between peers, where personal devices carried by users communicate directly in a device-to-...

Abstract Personal knowledge management has been developed in various fields such as knowledge management, personal information management, communication psychology and philosophy of science, management, communications, and so a lot of research to a few experimental or approved about (PKM) is a research that the original data is just a few pages. So research in this area seems to be very focuse...

The collection of network data referring to social interactions is among the topic more significant and interesting in the research process. Most of the advancements in this area benefit from the introduction of new technologies and the improvement of techniques for the collection and retrieval of data. The collection of information concerning multiple dimensions of personal interactions and th...