The public sphere in the internet age is shaped by changes traditional information consumption practices. With rise of social media and other online platforms, ways which people access consume have shifted significantly. One major change increased role user participation shaping sphere. users are forced to act participate. Currently active looking for information. World Wide Web a giant externa...

Linking Individuals and Societies How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest case of one population and one variable, we systematically introduce ad...

As Peter Drucker (2000) has pointed out, the foundation of the 21st century organization is no longer money or capital or even technology; it is knowledge. In order for that knowledge to create value, it must be shared. Some discussions of knowledge sharing in organizations and, indeed, some knowledge management initiatives seem to assume that given the right technology and/or the proper cultur...