Individuals’ behavior in groups is constrained by several factors, including the skills, privileges and responsibilities they enjoy. We call these factors a social role, and explore using the concept of social roles as an analytical tool for studying communities in Usenet newsgroups. Our understanding of what roles are and how they function is derived from sociolinguistics, social psychology, a...

For social media analysts or social scientists interested in better understanding an audience or demographic cohort, being able to group social media content by demographic characteristics is a useful mechanism to organise data. Social roles are one particular demographic characteristic, which includes work, recreational, community and familial roles. In our work, we look at the task of detecti...

As technology has advanced quickly, more individuals are using smartphones for a variety of functions such as marketing, business, social media, surfing, etc. This also increased the threat information sharing across various sites, which is one major reasons harassment cases and other security threats against women. Surveys reveal that, smartphone usage by women risen upto 5 folds in last 6 yea...

Women decision making is giving legitimate power or authority to perform the tasks. If women were free take their own decisions, they would be able participate in planning and task contribute development programmes activities individually. The process of freedom should start from our home. Womens position household determines womens autonomy family. It worth examine whether she can decide about...

Participants in online social environments adopt various roles. The concept of social role has long been used in social science to describe the intersection of behavioural, meaningful, and structural attributes that emerge regularly in particular settings. In this paper, we explore various behavioural attributes such as stubbornness, sensibility, influence, and ignorance to create a model of th...