social media has quickly become an essential marketing and communication tool for private, public and non-governmental entities across the world to promote their organizational mission, daily events and publications. many citizens use social media to post or share real time photos on a variety of environmental issues such as pollution or littering, forest fires, reported chemical spills in wate...

Social capital of the most important concepts in the social sciences is growing and the scope of its application in other sciences is increasing. This concept represents a ring lost in development. Scientists believe that cure the problems of modern society. Social capital is closely associated with the quality of life. Research methodology in the research work and information requirements with...

objectives: the aim of current research was the investigation of the role of classroom social psychosocial climate and shyness with academic performance of students. method: for this purpose, 370 students of third grade high schools of sabzevar city in iran, selected by clustering random sampling, and all of them filled the timidness and class social psychosocial climate questionnaires. results...

We draw on the organizational ecology tradition to frame the relationship between the religious environment of a community and local religious participation. Prior research linking religious environments to religious participation downplays a key organizational aspect of religion: the congregation. Following the organizational ecology usage of density, we argue that congregational density—the n...

Intelligent environments and ambient intelligence provide means to monitor physical environments and to learn from users, generating data to be used to promote sustainability. Communities of intelligent environments offer different answers and behaviors which can be computed and ranked. Such rankings are bound to be dynamic as users and environments exchange interactions on a daily basis. This ...

In this paper, we propose a framework for understanding technology-mediated social interaction that attempts to synthesize theory and research from the fields of social psychology, communications, sociology, and computer science. Although this perspective has developed primarily to describe the social dynamics of interactions occurring within collaborative virtual environments (CVEs), we believ...

As we move towards an era of Smart Environments, mixed technological and social solutions must be examined to continue to allow users some control over their environment. Realisations of Smart Environments such as Smart Cities and Smart Buildings bring the promise of an intelligently managed space that maximises the requirements of the user while minimising resources. Our approach is to create ...

A publisher uses an honor-system for selling a newspaper in the street. The customers make payments into a cash-box, but can also just take the paper without paying. Payments are not monitored and highly anonymous; hence customers exhibit trustworthiness if they pay for the paper. We run a natural field experiment to identify motives behind payments. The experiment reveals that trustworthiness ...