‘Befriend them but not be their friend’: Negotiations of youth practice in a digital age

To Befriend Or Not? A Model of Friend Request Acceptance on Facebook

Accepting friend requests from strangers in Facebook-like online social networks is known to be a risky behavior. Still, empirical evidence suggests that Facebook users often accept such requests with high rate. As a first step towards technology support of users in their decisions about friend requests for, we investigate why users accept such requests. We conducted two studies of users’ befri...

E-cigarettes and youth smoking: be alert but not alarmed.

Conner et al and Best et al report the results of two longitudinal studies of teenagers in the UK that examined the relationship between vaping an e-cigarette and smoking a cigarette. Similar to studies conducted in the USA, 4 they both report an association between experimentation with vaping and subsequent experimentation with smoking. Fears that an increase in vaping will lead to an increase...

Effective Practice in a Digital Age

A guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching JISC supports UK further and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. JISC receives funding from all the UK further and higher education funding councils. The aim of the JISC e-Learning programme is to enab...

Databases, But Not As We Know Them

a fundamental study of "histiriographic metafiction", and "literary genres", as introduced in "new historical philosophy", and tracing them in the works of julian barnes.

abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...