Our research-in-progress uses Adaptive Structuration Theory to explain the evolving characteristics of cyber-crime – specifically, the increasing use of computing and networking technology by criminals to facilitate financial fraud and theft. Our goal is to understand the processes by which the perpetrators of cyber-crime form technology-based social networks.

The widespread of the fashion industry, which heavily utilizes Instagram platform for marketing, influences trends Muslim fashion. Additionally, image presented by Muslimah influencers also contributes to shaping standards contemporary clothing. This study aims explore role industry and in constructing attire. focuses on observing this phenomenon among female students at Sunan Kalijaga State Is...

This paper first suggests a revision on the definition of telecommunications transformation strategies in literature, and then uses it to investigate China’s experiences of telecommunications reform by drawing on structuration theory. The authors conclude that a strategy of telecommunications market transformation must be formed based on the economic and political environment, telecommunication...

The use of ionic liquids as functional building blocks based on pyridinium, imidazolium and phosphonium cations to achieve materials combining a structuration at nanoscale with the dramatic mechanical properties of the resulting ionomers has been successfully demonstrated for the first time in a fluorinated matrix.

Research on post-migration processes usually focuses either on micro-level behaviours or on macro-level interactions between states and their diasporas. This paper aims to fill a gap by proposing a structure/agency approach likely to address the micro-, mesoand macrolevel factors that account for cross-border phenomena. The first section compares the main structure/agency approaches (Bourdieu’s...

Résumé : L’essor du tagging et des folksonomies pour l’organisation des ressources partagées au sein du Web social et collaboratif constitue une opportunité pour l’acquisition des connaissances par ceux-là même qui les manipulent. Cependant l’absence de liens sémantiques entre les tags, ou la variabilité d’écriture de certains tags appauvrissent les potentiels de navigation et de recherche d’in...

Social systems theory is dominated by a reductionistic individualism and a dualistic functionalism. Especially the latter doesn’t adequately integrate the human being. In order to avoid dualism, mechanistic determinism and reductionism, a dialectical concept of social systems that is based on the notion of self-organization seems necessary. In order to establish a dialectical theory of social s...

In this paper we argue that a combination of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Genre Theory can constitute a theoretical framework for understanding how digital genres evolve. Genre theory states that genres evolve over time through reciprocal interaction between institutionalized practices and individual action; that they develop from actors’ responses to recurrent situations, and are shaped ar...

OBJECTIVES Using strong structuration theory, we aimed to understand the adoption and implementation of an electronic clinical audit and feedback tool to support medicine optimisation for patients in primary care. DESIGN This is a qualitative study informed by strong structuration theory. The analysis was thematic, using a template approach. An a priori set of thematic codes, based on strong ...