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This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals’ social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2,603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students’ life satisfaction, social trust, civi…
Online social networks are becoming a true growth point of the Internet. As individuals constantly desire to interact with each other both in business and in personal contacts, the ability for the Internet to deliver this networking capability grows stronger and stronger. There are a number of excellent resources available to anyone interested in becoming part of the online social networking co…
The American sense of liberty and individual rights springs from the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These documents provide the guidelines for all federal, state, and local laws; they guarantee that the United States will remain a nation governed by the rule of law. They also balance society’s need to achieve social control, order, and safety against the individual’s right to l…
The 2005 World Summit recognized the responsibility to protect. In one sense, this might be considered a normative revolution: a sign that the international human rights regime has reached a middle stage in a ‘lifecycle’ that has the potential to end in states’ internalization of the obligations of human rights protection (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998). In another sense, however, this was…
The book you hold in your hands forms one panel in a broader Bastards of Utopia triptych. In addition to this written ethnography, there are two documentary film projects: a traditional feature documentary and an online inter- active documentary. Instructions on how to purchase the feature documentary are available at www.bastardsindex.com. The interactive, or “remixable,” version of the …
The aim of this book is to explore the chang- ing nature of politics in the developing world in the twenty-first century. Both ‘politics’ and the ‘developing world’ are concepts that require fur- ther elaboration and which are discussed more fully below. By politics, we mean broadly activities associated with the process and institutions of gov- ernment, or the state, but in the context…
Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine will take you through the process of developing Lua scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE). The Nmap Scripting Engine’s capabilities are explored throughout 10 chapters. They cover the fundamental concepts, operations, and libraries to teach you how to extend Nmap scans with custom tasks. The information I selected for this book attempts to answer one…
s Facebook and MySpace, have become booming sources of communication that strengthen peoples’ existing offline relationships. Many of our interpersonal needs such as trust, empathy, and support are satisfied through these media. When a user goes to make a profile for a specific SNW, he/she does it in a way that will connect him/her to whomever that user wishes. Modern research on this topic i…
This paper describes and evaluates privacy-friendly methods for extracting quasi-social networks from browser behavior on user-generated content sites, for the purpose of finding good audiences for brand advertising (as opposed to click maximizing, for example). Targeting social-network neighbors resonates well with advertisers, and on-line browsing behavior data counterintuitively can allow t…
Social networking sites (SNS) affordances for persistent interaction, collective generation of knowledge, and formation of peer-based clusters for knowledge sharing render them useful for developing constructivist knowledge environments. However, notwithstanding their academic value, these environments are not necessarily insulated from the exercise of academic/ power. Despite a growing corpus …
Industry experience indicates that the ability to incre- mentally expand data centers is essential. However, ex- isting high-bandwidth network designs have rigid struc- ture that interferes with incremental expansion. We present Jellyfish, a high-capacity network interconnect which, by adopting a random graph topology, yields it- self naturally to incremental expansion. Somewhat sur- prisingly…
This book contains primarily papers presented at the seminar held at the inauguration of the doctoral program in psychology in May 1994, at the University of Tromsø, which is the youngest university in Norway and the northernmost university in the world (if one discounts the university branch on Svalbard at 88 degrees north). In fact, the University of Tromsø is situated on a coastal island i…
Economic competition is global, focused, and unrelenting; there is no such thing as a “safe” job. Whatever it was that formed the basis of your state’s economy 50, 25, or even 10 years ago is now at risk; and whatever it is that is coming next is hard to see or define, let alone prepare for. This came home to me in the late 1990s when the bloom of the dot com bubble was beginning to fade…
There are many good reasons to reach for this book. If you have been plagued by moodiness, stress, anxiety, or depression, this is the book for you. If you are looking for a more action-based approach to mood management than that afforded by medications or psychotherapy, this is the book to read. If you have tried to exercise regularly and have failed, then this is your book. Why? Because this …
This book is about the convergence of the Internet - the 'IP' of our title - with mobile - the '3G', as in 'third generation mobile phones'. The book largely focuses on technology - rather than commercial or user-oriented considerations, for example - and in particular on the network aspects. In other words, in terms of the list above, the book is about the final bullet: about bringing the netw…
In this paper, we present a horizontal view of social influence, more specifically a quantitative study of the in- fluence of neighbours on the probability of a particular node to join a group, on four popular Online Social Networks (OSNs), namely Orkut, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Flickr. Neighbours in OSNs have a mutually acknowledged relation, most often defined as friendship, and they are…
During the last two decades Information technology has grown tremendously and became the main source of knowledge. In past few years the world getting closer and closer this is only because of Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Yet with usefulness and the popularity, the misuse and cybercrime are more evident. So prevention and detection of these threats is…