Since their inception, social networking sites (SNSs) have experienced exponential growth. While substantial research has been dedicated to users’ initial adoption of SNSs, the fall of MySpace reminds us that the long-term success of SNSs depends on users’ post adoption staying power. Inspired by this, this work-in-progress investigates users’ “stickiness” with a specific SNS. Based on Li et al...

Social networking and micro-blogging sites are stores of opinion-bearing content created by human users. We describe C-Feel-It, a system which can tap opinion content in posts (called tweets) from the micro-blogging website, Twitter. This web-based system categorizes tweets pertaining to a search string as positive, negative or objective and gives an aggregate sentiment score that represents a ...

Cloud computing is bringing a revolution in computing environment replacing traditional software installations, licensing issues into complete on-demand services through internet. Microsoft office 365 a cloud based office application is available to clients online hence no need to buy and install the software. On Facebook a social networking website, users upload videos which uses cloud provide...

Agendas • Analysis of terrorists' decision making cycle during the Mumbai terrorist attack Situation Awareness (SA) Theory Role of situational information • Analysis of Twitter postings of the Mumbai terror incident. • Challenging issue of information control in social networking website during the terrorist attack Attack mounted by 10 Pakistani terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) group 173...

Development and usage of online social networking web sites are growing rapidly. Millions members of these web sites publicly articulate mutual "friendship" relations and share user-created contents, such as photos, videos, files, and blogs. The advances in web designing technology and fast growing usage of online resources prompted web designers to improve features and architectures of social ...

This paper applies social network analysis techniques to study computer virus propagation. We propose a novel multilevel hierarchical linear model to simultaneously evaluate the impact of both individual-level and group-level variables on virus propagation process. In this model, we propose centrality and brokerage measures as explanatory variables. We estimate our model based on empirical data...

The purpose of this research is to explore what scale hospitals are adopting social media and implementing it in accordance with hospital characteristics. We reviewed hospitals’ activities on networking sites such Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube. studied the 912 Midwest region reported 2015 American Hospital Association Annual Survey dataset. each hospital’s social-networking page underst...

the ability to develop and maintain an effective network is one of the entrepreneurial competencies. despite recognition of the value of networking, there has been little research into the networks of female entrepreneurs. current evidences indicate the differences between men and women’s networking and in part, women’s weakness to creat and maintain entrepreneurial networking compared to that ...

Today in India mostly among the Indian undergrads the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) has significantly expanded and has unquestionably had broad effects on the scholarly and different exercises of the understudies’ students. These effects are widespread to the point that they grabbed the eye of social researchers around the world. Be that as it may, the scope of studies led to managing th...