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…
Social networking sites have been rapidly adopted by children and, especially, teenagers and young people world wide, enabling new opportunities for the presentation of the self, learning, construction of a wide circle of relationships, and the management of privacy and intimacy. On the other hand, there are also concerns that social networking increases the likelihood of new risks to the self,…
In this book, we study random graphs as models for real-world networks. Since 1999, many real-world networks have been investigated. These networks turned out to have rather different properties than classical random graph models, for example in the number of connections the elements in the network make. As a result, a wealth of new models was invented to capture these properties. This book su…
Internet use and social networking by young people is the first of a series of short reports that provide detailed analysis of particular topics from a major piece of community research commissioned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
There is a wide array of fundamental and important principles of civil justice. The main suggestion has been that the leading principles of civil justice might usefully be arranged under these four corner-stones of civil justice: Access to Legal Advice and Dispute-Resolution Systems; Equality and Fairness between the Parties; A Focused and Speedy Process; and Adjudicators of Integrity. Jurists …
Social networks on the web are growing dramatically in size and number. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, and others has drawn in hundreds of millions of users, and the attention of scientists and the media. The public accessibility of web-based social networks offers great promise for researchers interested in studying the behavior of users and how to integrate social inf…
Ethernet has been the dominant technology for local area networks (LANs) for many years. With the introduction of circuit concept over Ethernet by the IEEE and MEF specifications, Ethernet is becoming a key technology for Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs). This book makes an attempt to describe various aspects of data networks and services based on carrier Etherne…
Networks are groups of computers that communicate by either cable or wireless transmissions. By the use of computer networking, we can share data with others. Today, all businesses, small or large use some type of computers and most use computer networking to handle their daily business operations such as bookkeeping, inventory tracking, document storing, and e-mail. Networks are growing in siz…
So how was it possible that the archives of a political international organization were kept safe throughout the growing pains of the 1920s, its steady demise in the 1930s, and its almost entire shut-down during the World War II? And how are the archives of the United Nations Office at Geneva managed in order to ensure that they will be available to researchers in the future? In order to answe…
n 1995, delegates from 189 countries and territories and representatives from over 2,100 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) traveled to Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. Focusing specially on mainstreaming women’s needs into policy and development plans, this historic conference concentrated on the ways in which women’s equality related to human rights as well as on women…
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…
It has been a productive challenge to write an introductory book on contemporary readymade practices that would appeal to a broad and critical audience. Despite its accruing history and heavily validated art historical pedigree, the readymade can still be mystifying to art viewers. I wanted to write a book that would address this—not by simply rehashing its history with new little twists, but…
Make a concerted effort to meet and talk to people who can help advance your career –Established researchers –Program directors –Your contemporaries –People who can provide good technical advice –People who can introduce you to any of the above
By server I mean a computer, running an operating system, whose main task is providing services to other servers or users, rather than supporting the network. A sysadmin is someone responsible for managing such devices. Some network administrators build routers, firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion detection devices, and more out of carefully selected server hardware. When this book says server…
The network package provides tools for creation, access, and modification of network class objects. These objects allow for the representation of more complex structures than can be readily handled by other means (e.g., adjacency matrices), and are substantially more efficient in handling large, sparse networks. While the full capabilities of the network class can only be exploited by means o…
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 …
This manual provides an overview of concepts and technologies considered to be fundamental to organizational network design. The contents of this manual are grouped into seven chapters, as follows: This chapter provides an overview of basic networking concepts, including network architecture, design, and project management. Chapter 2: Network Connectivity, describes cabling and wire…