Social networks such as Facebook and Secondlife are popular. Wireless devices abound from affluent countries to developing countries. Social networks need wide area Internet support. Wireless interfaces offer ad hoc networking capability, without the need for infrastructure support. Web on Demand (WoD) aims to bridge the gap between ad hoc social networks (people in close proximity with shared ...

social networks have been widely interested by many academics and industry researchers due to extensive functions and interactions.this study aims to identify the requirements, issues, and the main effective factors on the formation of social networks of technology and innovation management actors. the research method is descriptive-survey which the requirements of actors in management of techn...

Social networking is moving to mobile phones. This not only means continuous access, but also allows to link virtual and physical neighbourhood in novel ways. To make such systems useful, personal data such as lists of friends and interests need to be shared with more and frequently unknown people, posing a risk to your privacy. In this paper, we present our approach to social networking, Consi...

Social media platforms continue to flourish as practices encompassing them become deeply embedded in many cultures. As more people embrace social platforms, their affordances and opportunities are leading improved communication, helping hold authorities account. To further scrutinize the importance of these this study interrogates role digital socio-political contestations Nigeria by examining ...

Mobile communications have played an indispensable part in contemporary human experiences. The combination of social networking and mobile technologies presents an interesting phenomenon because the pervasive nature of mobile technologies significantly impacts on users’ privacy concerns about highly personal social media like Facebook. The massive amount of data collected from users’ mobile soc...

The routing protocols meant for wired networks can not be used for mobile ad hoc networks because of the mobility of networks. The ad hoc routing protocols can be divided into two classes :table-driven and on-demand. This paper discusses routing protocols belonging to each category. See Also: TCP Extensions for Wireless Networks | Evolution Toward Third Generation Wireless Networks | In-buildin...

In this paper we present an attempt of engaging social media population for bringing crowdsourcing model into a mobile context. The proposed social media crowdsourcing platform leverages the existing social networking applications to rapidly allocate microtasks to a wide network of crowdworkers, and visualizes the geotagged result data in order to create a sort of visual information pool for pu...

This study explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) as a performance-enhancing method teaching and learning English in classroom via cell phones mobile devices, well its effect on students' motivation to learn. A survey was disseminated 176 students. The analysis showcases that Instagram is most useful tool students enjoy, devices has potential become significant classroom. Because pop...

The popularity of social networking services emphasises the importance of user communities. As the next evolutionary step, social networking will evolve towards user communities that are dynamically established according to contextual aspects such as the shared location and/or activities of people. In this vision, distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies provide a respectable alternative to ...