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The Communities vary from country to country. There are civil societies and rural communities, which also differ in terms of geography climate and economy. This shows that the use of social networks vary from region to region depending on the demographics of the communities. So, in this paper, we researched the most important problems of the Social Network, as well as the risk which is based on the...
The continued growth of Internet traffic associated with the popularity of online social networks (OSNs) raises the possibility that knowledge of the underlying social graph connecting users may be exploited to enhance content distribution and delivery. In our previous work, we found that partitioning OSN users and their data based on their social graph, and using the partitioning as basis for content...
Social computing is an emerging field, encompassing a wide range of topics. A broad understanding of the major topics involved in social computing is important for both scholars and practitioners. The authors present and analyze the voluminous social computing related studies to date, applying document co-citation analysis, pathfinder networks, core-document analysis, and the Herfindahl-Hirschman...
Due to the rapid development of information technology, digital learning has become a trend in future education. Taiwan has continuously reformed and improved its education, in hopes that students can learn effectively with positive learning attitudes. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the effect of using Windows Live social network as an assisting platform for computer class. This study...
In this paper we propose a new system for Agent-mediated Communication (AMC) in which a network agent mediates people in the network and provides them with linkage for conversation. People left behind from the progress of the Information Society seem to deepen the feeling of isolation and alienation from the society. The agent on the network mediates such passive people and arranges a sort of place...
This paper reviews the design education environment in Chinese mainland. Based on this review, it discusses how to use social networking to support design instructions. With the study on the relationship between social networking and education, this research provides insights on how to support design education by creating an integrated web-based pedagogical model.
There has been a long waiting for computers to dramatically change education, but for the most part, that promise remains unfulfilled for various reasons. Perhaps the most important of them is the fact that, there hasn't been - so far - a computer application that would universally alter the educational experience. One that will make us stop seeing computers as an add-on, and start seeing them as...
The rapid development of technology has enabled people to work socially across networks. However, results from a survey conducted in Henan province indicated that Chinese College English teachers have little knowledge of or experience with social computing tools. From 2006-2007, first as a visiting scholar, then a course assistant at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, one of the...
In this paper, we attempt to get better insight on how Internet usage behaviors of female students in university can affect on their different academic activities also compare usage patterns of different departments' students with their teachers' patterns. In addition, we attempt to find similarities and dissimilarities of usage patterns of students on various branches and finding relationships between...
Female students are in minority in most of technical institutions in India and many infrastructural facilities and services are not targeted to them. Even though Internet facilitates removal of geographical, social and cultural barriers, it does not seem to have any significant impact on academic pursuit of female students. Not many serious investigations have been conducted to study the usage pattern...
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