Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become popular among millions of users including students of all ages. There are ongoing discussions over the potential of these sites to support teaching and learning, particularly to complement traditional or online classroom activities. This paper explores whether social networking have a place in teaching and learning by investigatin...

Many detailed studies ranging from networking to hardware as well as standardization activities over the last few years have advanced the performance of the elastic optical network. Thanks to these intensive works, the elastic optical network has been becoming feasible. This paper reviews the recent advances in the elastic optical network from the aspects of networking technology and hardware d...

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, one of the few formal interagency R&D activities within the Federal government, comprises the Government's main unclassified R&D investments in advanced networking, computing, software, and related information technology (IT). The NITRD Program also supports research in the socioeconomic implications of IT and i...

Social networking provides opportunities to expand the nature of existing applications and user activities in cyberspace. Consider the idea of “social TV”. Along with these opportunities to combine activities such as social networking and TV or entertainment, comes an interesting set of challenges to the privacy of identity information. In this paper we will examine a key set of these challenge...

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, one of the few formal interagency R&D activities within the Federal government, comprises the Government's main unclassified R&D investments in advanced networking, computing, software, and related information technology (IT). The NITRD Program also supports research in the socioeconomic implications of IT and i...

This research explains the importance of transculturality in social networking in a wide variety of activities of our daily life. We focus our analysis to online activities that use social richness, analyzing societies in Yakutia (A Russian Republic), Macau in China, Uberlândia in Brazil and Juarez City in Mexico, all with people descending from Japanese people. To this end, we performed survey...

background and aim: social networking sites (snss), known in terms of cyberspace, are a very popular and accepted aspect of technology. internet is more useful for hearing-impaired children and adolescents than the other users because of the type of communication and its possibility of hiding their disabilities. this study aimed to determine the relationship between using cyberspace and the mot...

We have developed a dashboard application called “SoCConnect” for integrating social data from different social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter), which allows users to create personalized social and semantic contexts for their social data. Users can blend their friends across different social networking sites and group them in different ways. They can also rate friends and/or their act...

We have developed a dashboard application called “SocConnect” for integrating social data from different social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter), which allows users to create personalized social and semantic contexts for their social data. Users can blend their friends across different social networking sites and group them in different ways. They can also rate friends and/or their act...