Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have offered governments new opportunities to enhance citizen participation in democratic processes. The participation opportunities afforded by ICT may be particularly pertinent for youths, who are more likely to be ICT-savvy and yet are reported to show declining participation in politics. The currently increasing exclusion of yout...

BACKGROUND Few studies are grounded in a developmental framework to study proactive and reactive aggression. Furthermore, although distinctive correlates, predictors and outcomes have been highlighted, proactive and reactive aggression are substantially correlated. To our knowledge, no empirical study has examined the communality of genetic and environmental underpinning of the development of b...

Two experimental studies examined the effect of power-seeking intentions on backlash toward women in political office. It was hypothesized that a female politician's career progress may be hindered by the belief that she seeks power, as this desire may violate prescribed communal expectations for women and thereby elicit interpersonal penalties. Results suggested that voting preferences for fem...

A communality between research in Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Emotion is that it seems in both cases to be rather difficult to give an acceptable definition of the naturally occurring counterpart. One could speculate whether this is due to the multiplicity of the nature of both phenomena or due to a categorical misconception. In this paper I try to briefly outline a number of differen...

In the strategic alignment model of Henderson and Venkatraman (1993) [1] IT infrastructure has an important but only implicitly defined role. According to evolving literature, IT infrastructure serves many different purposes in large companies. We outline the main missions (roles) of the corporate-wide IT infrastructure and its contribution to IS effectiveness and study the relationship of IT i...

The literature on childhood depression has often treated children and adolescents as a homogeneous group. However, research on cognitive and affective development suggests that the nature of depression may be different for these two age groups. We explored this possibility, separately factor analyzing Children's Depression Inventory responses for 110 clinic-referred children (aged 8-11 years) a...

In this paper, we concern ourselves with the ways in which humans inhabit social machines: the structures and techniques which allow the enmeshing of multiple life traces within the flow of online interaction. In particular, we explore the distinction between transport and journeying, between networks and meshworks, and the different attitudes and modes of being appropriate to each. By doing th...