Social scientists are increasingly interested in innovative organizational forms made possible with new media, known as epistemic communities, knowledge networks, or communities of practice, depending on the discipline. Some organizational forms can be difficult to study qualitatively because human, social, cultural, or symbolic capital is transmitted over significant distances with technologie...

A life full of peace has always been a dream for human societies. Peace is still considered as one of the main modern world concerns, because each nation deals with its own kind of violence and war. Therefore, peacemaking has turned into one of the governments’ objectives. Peace has been affected by various factors in all over history. Media and communication technologies are two of the factors...

In this paper, we wish to bring light the impacts of social media especially youth particular generation. These are both negative and positive. Over previous 2 years, have received so much growth as well popularity globally a degree large number scientists nowadays keen on learning more about these platforms influences theirs community. was via random sampling programs. The entire sample size f...

This article deals with ICT availability among ethnic minority groups in the Netherlands and Flanders.The rapid spread of ICT applications has affected various aspects of digital citizenship.The study results suggest that the world of ethnic minority youths in the Netherlands and Flanders, as with other western countries, is being digitized gradually.This is an irreversible evolution with tangi...

Online social media influence the flow of news and other information, potentially altering collective social action while generating a large volume of data useful to researchers. Mapping these networks may make it possible to predict the course of social and political movements, technology adoption, and economic behavior. Here we map the network formed by Twitter users sharing British Broadcast...

We present results of an eight-week case study of the cameraphone use of one extended family. Our goal was to understand not only how they used these technologies as part of existing socialand workrelated communication and photographic practices but also to understand what influences how people use or do not use their cameraphone and multimedia messaging technologies. Drawing from the new media...

Interactivity has been identified as a core concept of new media, yet despite nearly three decades of study and analysis, we scarcely know what interactivity is, let alone what it does, and have scant insight into the conditions in which interactive processes are likely to be consequential for members of a social system. This article attempts to address this deficiency by critiquing three self-...

Communities of place feature prominently in new urbanism movements and in master-planned inner-city developments that result from urban renewal. This paper’s point of departure is the stark contrast between the widespread use of mobile and ubiquitous media and communications technology by urban dwellers on the one hand and endemic forms of urban alienation and the disappearance or non-existence...