Café is one of the contemporary products that has become an arena lifestyle battles. Supported by a culture consumerism and commodity fetishism, then transformed into representation urban society. There are many phenomena support this thesis. Those who come to not only fulfill their basic needs (the need drink coffee), but more than that, which show others existence with all success they have a...

Cultural identity in contemporary diasporic communities is dynamic, multifaceted, and cyclical. In the age of reflexive modernity, it imperative to think about new ways conceptualizing experience individuals straddling multiple geographies. A model for such should not only explain plurality “being” but also fluidity “becoming.” this article, question shifting identities four main characters Jhu...

Intelligent technologies have the potential to transform organizations and organizing processes. In particular, they are unique from prior organizational in that reposition technology as agent rather than a tool or object of use. Scholars studying human-machine communication (HMC) begun theorize dual role played by human machine agency, but focused primarily on individual level. Drawing Structu...

The communication of meaning as different from (Shannon-type) information is central to Luhmann’s social systems theory and Giddens’ structuration theory of action. These theories share an emphasis on reflexivity, but focus on meaning along a divide between inter-human communication and intentful action as two different systems of reference. Recombining these two theories into a theory about th...

Research on post-migration processes usually focuses either on micro-level behaviours or on macro-level interactions between states and their diasporas. This paper aims to fill a gap by proposing a structure/agency approach likely to address the micro-, mesoand macrolevel factors that account for cross-border phenomena. The first section compares the main structure/agency approaches (Bourdieu’s...

The paper draws upon research material collected during a one year long ethnographic study on injection use and a WHO funded Injection Practices Research Project, which were both carried out during 1992/1993. The paper examines the changing trends in injection use and practices in the context of the Ugandan health system and in relation to popular views about risk and trust. Generally, people m...

ICT has been closely related to risk throughout its history. One the one hand, ICT is essentially a control technology (Beniger 1986). It is a technology that helps us better predict and control complex processes in nature (develop new drugs, control nuclear power plants, weather forecast, etc.), society (production control systems, project management tools, etc.), and other technologies (inter...

Trust is an important concept in the implementation of large information systems. Earlier research in this area has focused primarily on trust as either a static concept (‘what is trust’), on the consequences of a lack of trust (‘what happens if trust does not exist’), or on the different ways in which trust is created. This paper suggests a dynamic model, based on features of Anthony Giddens’ ...

New media or internet-based has become a platform that contributes to changes in the way and style of modern society accessing interpreting information. The characteristics new which are fast, easy, inexpensive, have widespread ability fact able forum for its users expand spectrum democracy, especially digital era. In this study, researchers focused on satirical website content included forms p...