Are Teachers Ready for New Digital Learning Spaces: Case Study of an Online Social Networking Site for Secondary Teachers in Trinidad and Tobago

This study explores the potential of online social media to serve as a sphere for political discourse and investigates the extent to which everyday uses of online social networking sites can expose citizens to politically diverse viewpoints. In addition, this study asks whether such crosscutting exposure in online social networks will act as a trigger or a muffler for political expression – that is, whether exposure political difference will stimulate or discourage political discussions. With analyses of a sample of online social networking site users in the context of the 2012 presidential election in South Korea, this study explicates the link between crosscutting exposure and citizens’ political expressions in social media. Results reveal that contrary to the predictions in previous literature, exposure to politically incongruent viewpoints in online social networking sites does not seem to undermine users’ expressive behaviors but instead positively contribute to political expression. In addition, this study shows the significant role of citizens’ perceptions of candidate support in their own networks, and illustrates that the dynamics of political expression differ significantly depending on the users’ age.

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Using Social Networks to Solve Crimes

International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking ◽

10.4018/jvcsn.2012040102 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 18-29

Author(s):

Alexiei Dingli

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Real Case

In this paper, the author investigates the use of the popular Social Networking Site (SNS) Facebook to solve crimes. In particular, the author uses car thefts as a case study. When a car owner discovers that his or her vehicle has been stolen, every means helps to recover the vehicle. Reporting the incident immediately to the police is obligatory, but alerting his or her network of friends on a social networking site about the misfortune could prove useful. In particular, the authors look into a real case study. This report answers several questions, such as: How useful can these sites be to help an owner recover the vehicle? How far can an appeal reach? What type of feedback do users send? The author analyzes how people create the appeal in Facebook and what information is shared.

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Impact of Online Social Networking on Employees Productivity at Work Place in University of Gondar - A Case Study

International Journal of Computer Applications ◽

10.5120/ijca2016907844 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 135 (3) ◽

pp. 18-24

Author(s):

Tilahun Yeshambel ◽

Mengistu Belete ◽

Yelkal Mulualem

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Work Place ◽

Online Social Networking

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Unravelling Intellectual Property in a Specialist Social Networking Site

Digital Rights Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2136-7.ch016 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 335-353

Author(s):

Sal Humphreys

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Intellectual Property ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Site ◽

Multiple Roles ◽

Mixed Economy

This chapter examines how the complexity of motivations and practices found in a specialist social networking site intersect with the institutions of intellectual property. The popular niche or specialist social networking site (SNS) called Ravelry, which caters to knitters, crocheters and spinners, is used as a case study. In this site people use, buy, sell, give away, and consume in a mixed economy that can be characterised as a ‘social network market’(Potts et al., 2008). In a co-creative social networking site we find not only a multidirectional and multi-authored process of co-production, but also a concatenation of amateurs, semi-professionals and professionals occupying multiple roles in gifting economies, reputation economies, monetised charitable economies and full commercial economies.

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Lean and Digital

Key Challenges and Opportunities in Web Entrepreneurship - Advances in E-Business Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2466-3.ch004 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 79-102 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oya Zincir ◽

Adil Ünal ◽

Murat Erdal

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Social Networking ◽

Online Social Networking ◽

Work Related ◽

Social Networking Website ◽

Establishment Process ◽

Digital Entrepreneurship ◽

Digital Sphere ◽

Lean Startup

This study focuses on “BuyerNetwork.net,” an online social networking website which brings procurement and supply chain professionals together on a digital-sphere for the purposes of interacting on work related communications and gathering information about supply chain products, operations and industry specific updates. It is aimed to explain the concepts of digital entrepreneurship and lean startup concepts with a literature background and on a case study. In the proposed case study, BuyerNetwork.net's establishment process is examined.

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