Understanding and structuring the use of social software by scientists is of high importance in modern research and education – new ways of cooperation and knowledge sharing leads to new ways of work for researchers in both, higher education and enterprises. The possibilities of social networking services provides means for open discourse and offers easier ways to make scientific and educationa...

In recent years, networking and collaboration have become increasingly popular in education. However, there is at present a lack of attention to the theoretical basis of networking, which could illuminate when and when not to network and under what conditions networks are likely to be successful. In this paper, we will attempt to sketch the theoretical background to networking drawing on work i...

the scientific development in today’s globalized environment calls for increasing interaction with scientific and technological centers. scientific networks and networking with reliance on scientific and academic experts constitute one of the existing strategies to achieve this objective. through the passage of history, iran has had economic and cultural exchange with countries located in the i...

The increasing numbers of international students studying in UCSI University necessitates research into appropriate ways to support cultural diversity in teaching and providing learning tools for them. International students usually face problems in adapting to culturally different education system and this complicates the discipline specific skills that they have come to learn. In addition to ...

Active Networking (AN) involves the processing of programs in heterogeneous networking environments. There are several AN solutions, exposing different APIs and using different languages, and each may be appropriate for different tasks such as high-speed multimedia processing or low-speed routing adjustments. We describe our active node system, LANode, that separates controland data-plane activ...

Social networking applications have emerged as the platform of choice for carrying out a number of different activities online. In addition to their primary target of social interaction, we now also employ such applications to search for information online or to share multimedia content with our friends and families. For instance, according to recent statistics, each of us spends on average 15 ...

Social Networking sites have become increasingly prevalent in the society as a medium to socialize and connect with friends. These websites have changed the way we communicate and share our thoughts and experiences with other people. However, most social networking websites lack in connecting people over common activities or interests. Users often befriend other users with the objective to swap...

The advent of social networking websites presents further opportunities for criminals to obtain information for use in identity theft, cyber-stalking, and worse activities. This paper presents exploratory research investigating why users of social networking websites willingly disclose personal information and what sorts of information they provide (or not). The study employed an ethnographic a...

Purpose – This study explores Twitter use by Korea’s central government by classifying the government’s Twitter-based networking strategies into government-to-citizen (G2C) and government-to-government (G2G) strategies. Design/methodology/approach – The study investigates the nature of social media interactions and networking strategies in the Korean government by extracting tweets, follower/fo...