The purpose of this study is to give an empirical glance on different forms of self-exposure on Social Network Sites (SNS). Based on a sociological on-line game, it explores the different tendencies in the self-exhibition shift and tries to find out how it is linked to different strategies in order to choose friends. In the first game, people have to select, among four ranked pictures, the one ...

Nowadays, new informational and communicative media, and the rate of their use by individuals have caused deep metamorphoses in the material and non-material dimensions of human lives, and individuals’ mental regulation. The use of these media, especially the Internet and virtual social networks, among Iranian teenagers has unnoticeably increased, and providing numerous facilities and opt...

The exploration of social networks is essential to find capable collaborators who can help problem-solving. This paper proposes an Internet and WWW based application, called SocialPathFinder, for seeking for a collaborator with the chain of personal connections (PeCo) in WWW. Moreover, this system helps gathering, exploring, and visualizing social networks. The experimental results show that th...

This paper focuses on the characteristics of two big triggers that facilitated wide user adoption of the Internet: Web 2.0[1] and online social networks. We detect brakes for reproduction of these events in Internet of things. To support our hypothesis we first compare the difference between the ways of use of the Internet with the future scenarios of Internet of things. We detect barriers that...

The penetration rate of Online Social Networks (OSNs) within older individuals of society is still not as large as within the younger generation. Using this as motivation this research aimed to identify and understand the adoption, use and diffusion of OSNs within UK’s older population. For this purpose, a conceptual framework was formed that was then empirically determined using the older indi...

In Internet-based social networks, the nodes have the most pivotal role in the processes and outcomes of the networks. Whether they pay attention to a message in the network or ignore it defines the fate of the message. One message is shared and re-shared by millions of users and another is left forgotten. The current study tries to shed light on one aspect of the role of the users in a social ...

The aim of this study is presenting an explanatory model of the Internet applications and the role on the sexual identities’ of the-youth in Tehran. Also these sub-targets were evaluated: the amount of the youths’ familiarization with this technology by sex, the kind of programs used by the students by sex, the recognition of internet applications’ effect on the sexual - identity of the youth. ...

the internet is a widely recognized channel for information exchange, academic research, entertainment, communication and commerce. the internet is a new tool that is evolving into an essential part of everyday life all over the world and its use increases especially among young people. although the positive aspects of the internet have been readily praised, there is a growing amount of literat...