Autonomy, Territory, Mobility: Everyday (Geo)Politics in Voluntary Exchange Networks

Voluntary euthanasia in the Northern Territory--Australia.

Behaviors of Actors in a Resource-Exchange Model of Geopolitics

We present initial findings of an ongoing effort to endow the key players in a nation-state model with intelligent behaviors. The model is based on resource exchange as the fundamental interaction between agents. In initial versions, model agents were severely limited in their ability to respond and adapt to changes in their environment. By modeling agents with a broader range of capabilities, ...

Satisfying Everyday Mobility

This paper engages with theoretical insights into understanding everyday travel (from the mobility turn and theories of social practice) in an analysis of everyday mobility using data from ethnographic research. The analysis of mobile performances draws attention to how travellers incorporate valued dispersed practices into mobility. We argue that incorporating such contingent practices into tr...

Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare

Rather than assume that there is some universal “right way” to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as “jumping” played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to investigate how a “global” or universal system is constructed with an imagined user in mind, one who enjoys a particular type of mobility and experience of pl...

Information-seeking behavior of the everyday life of Kermanshah Kurds in social networks: an exploratory approach

Aim: Growing number social network  users for communicating between   groups   has made them a major  segment of peoplechr('39')s social life. So, the purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the use of social networks and information-seeking behavior in daily life of the Kurds in virtual networks and effect of ethnic identity on the behavior of information-seeking in their da...