There is a general tendency among those who talk about youth problems to make pronouncements on moral issues. This is very often done with little knowledge of the facts, so that these problems concerning young people are discussed in something of a vacuum, outside the general context of the social structure in which they live. The value of the Eppels' book lies in the fact that not only have th...

Actor-Network Theory (ANT) emerged from science and technology studies, though it was inspired by grounded theory and semiotics. In the 1970s, Bruno Latour (a French anthropologist and social scientist) and Steve Woolgar (a British sociologist) undertook ethnographic field work at the Salk Institute in California. This research was inspired by grounded theory and Latour and Woolgar approached t...

Information technology continues to provide opportunities to alter the decisionmaking behavior of individuals, groups and organizations. Two related changes that are emerging are social media and Web 2.0 technologies. These technologies can positively and negatively impact the rationality and effectiveness of decision-making. For example, changes that help marketing managers alter consumer deci...

Background Graphs are widely used to represent relationships among the entities, such as friendships in social networks, interactions in biological networks, and so on. Mining commonly occurring subgraph patterns from a massive social graph or citation network can help discover similar groups/behaviors, which may be of interest to social scientists. Likewise, a bioinformatics researcher may be ...

Human moral judgment depends critically on "theory of mind," the capacity to represent the mental states of agents. Recent studies suggest that the right TPJ (RTPJ) and, to lesser extent, the left TPJ (LTPJ), the precuneus (PC), and the medial pFC (MPFC) are robustly recruited when participants read explicit statements of an agent's beliefs and then judge the moral status of the agent's action....

Although the extraction of facts and aggregated information from individual Online Social Networks (OSNs) has been extensively studied in the last few years, cross–social media–content examination has received limited attention. Such content examination involving multiple OSNs gains significance as a way to either help us verify unconfirmed-thus-far evidence or expand our understanding about oc...