Negative (adverse or threatening) events evoke strong and rapid physiological, cognitive, emotional, and social responses. This mobilization of the organism is followed by physiological, cognitive, and behavioral responses that damp down, minimize, and even erase the impact of that event. This pattern of mobilization-minimization appears to be greater for negative events than for neutral or pos...

It is now commonplace to see the Web as a platform that can harness the collective abilities of large numbers of people to accomplish tasks with unprecedented speed, accuracy and scale [10]. To push this idea to its limit, DARPA launched its Network Challenge, which aimed to “explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urge...

Communities depicted by lack of opportunities for development often look to tourism initiatives as a means combine economic growth and community building. Such activity highlights nexus between tourism, social entrepreneurship development. This has been investigated somewhat in literature, but lacks empirical backing, well theoretical refinement. We argue that collective perspective on the cont...

The Social Mobilization Network (SMNet) has been lauded as one of the most successsful community engagement strategies in public health for its role in polio elimination in India. The UNICEF-managed SMNet was created as a strategy to eradicate polio by engaging >7000 frontline social mobilizers to advocate for vaccination in some of the most underserved, marginalized, and at-risk communities in...

Background Highly dynamic social networks, where connectivity continuously changes in time, are becoming more and more pervasive. Knowledge mobilization, which refers to the use of knowledge toward the achievement of goals, is one of the many examples of dynamic social networks. Despite the wide use and extensive study of dynamic networks, their temporal component is often neglected in social n...

This review paper examines the question of how to facilitate a more effective system of community knowledge mobilization given institutional and cultural separation among researchers and community practitioners. Several perspectives are explored as the specific topic of knowledge mobilization has received limited treatment in the literature. Related perspectives include the development of organ...