This paper investigates the utilization of a social network tool in order to promote creativity in higher education. Buddypress was selected as a social network tool and de Bono’s “6 thinking hats” as a creativity strategy. The participants were 17 undergraduate students from a case study in a University in Greece in the field of social sciences. Creativity was defined by Torrance & Ball’s [25]...

Using a panel dataset from 1980 to 2000 this paper analyzes the determinants of income inequality in Latin American countries with special attention paid to education, health, and social security expenditures. I build on previous research by solving for the endogeneity of the social spending variables in the income inequality equation. This study undertakes 2SLS and GMM methods in order to cont...

Twitter for teaching: can social media be used to enhance the process of learning? Chris Evans Chris Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the Brunel Business School at Brunel University. His research interests include interactivity, Web 2.0 and social media, multimedia learning technology, and the adoption of innovative learning technologies. He is Chair of the annual eLearning 2.0 international confe...

Social Network Sites (SNSs) are widely used and have been object of research for some years. Existing studies have investigated single Social Networking (SN) phenomena or the usage of particular SNSs. However, only little research has been conducted on the motives for using SNSs. The paper at hand will present a survey for gaining insight into the motives of SNS usage and potential contextual f...

In the era of social connectedness, Web users are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through online collaborative media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday life such as commerce , tourism, education, and health, causing the size of the social Web to ex...

The paper draws on recent studies on the patterns of ICT adoption and use in higher education institutions in the Western Cape to show that technology adoption is on the rise at universities. A recent study on ICT, education, and change in higher education is also used to outline the conceptions, meanings, and implications of ICT – from the perspectives of different academics, managers, and IT ...

Online social networks (OSNs) successfully claimed their place among the most popular Internet services. OSNs form online communities among people with common interests, activities, backgrounds, and/or friendships. They enable people to keep in touch with their friends, find people that they lost contact with and even find new friends based on shared affinities such as groups, hobbies, interest...

Telecommunications’ industry evolves into a high competitive market which demands companies to establish an effective revenue assurance framework. Social network analysis can be used to increase the knowledge about the customers’ behavior, not just in terms of individual usage but mostly in relation to the customers’ connections and how they create communities according to their call and text m...