Social networking is an essential part of life for people around the world these days. Social networking is a form of social media, used for interactive, educational, informational or entertaining purposes. Even though social media comes in many forms all of them are related to each other. Social networking is also a tool to create and join groups, learn about latest news and events, play games...

This article demonstrates a research strategy and prevention methodology for substance using urban youth that incorporates individual, social, and geographical parameters to systematically understand the ecology of risk and protection for urban youth. The primary goal of this study was to describe and analyze substance using and nonusing urban adolescents' social networks; risky and protective ...

Middle school atlases are supplementary textbooks for social studies learning in South Korea. Although atlases are developed and designed to provide various useful resources for students’ social studies learning, especially geography, atlases have not been frequently used in actual social studies classrooms, and sometimes they are never used. This study reports the causes of low adoption rates ...

Social network analysis has traditionally ignored the role of place and geographic space in forming social bonds and networks. Here we introduce a richer model by introducing the notion of co-placement as a factor for social bonds. A hierarchical categorization of co-placement and the inferred strength of relations at different scales and granularity are discussed. This research shows that the ...

The study of human activities and movements in space and time has long been an important research area in social science. One of the earliest spatially integrated perspective for the analysis of human activities patterns and movement in space-time is time-geography. Despite the usefulness of time-geography, there are very few studies that actually implemented its constructs because of a lack of...

There is a dearth of empirical evidence on the extent of racist attitudes, broadly defined, in Australia. A telephone survey of 5056 residents in Queensland and NSW examined attitudes to cultural difference, perceptions of the extent of racism, tolerance of specific groups, ideology of nation, perceptions of Anglo-Celtic cultural privilege, and belief in racialism, racial separatism and racial ...

Social informatics refers to the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that takes into account their interactions with institutional and cultural contexts. Social informatics research may be done at group, departmental, organizational, national and/or societal levels of analysis, focused on the relationships among infor...

Scientists have long studied the relationship between geography and social structure and for my PhD thesis I would like to address the interplay of places and human social networks. I am in particular interested in how places shape social interactions and how people shape places. I am, however, hardly the first one to ask those questions as researchers have long studied the relationship between...