In today’s network society policy analysis is more and more implemented by means of participatory approaches and methods. This is induced by the fact that power and knowledge are widely distributed among various groups of network actors (stakeholders). The network characteristics of our (western) societies (Castells, 1996) more or less force us to look at policy analysis from a more relativist ...

Technology plays a significant role in the development of society. Social Networking Sites (SNS) have not only been used to cover the needs of entertainment, finding friends or family but also have been extended to cover other issues such as social and community services. This paper explores usefulness of using social network in the context of community and social services. By analyzing the lin...

Responding to the impending invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, peace activists from around the world united in opposition to any unilateral attack. The anti-war movement peaked during February 14-16, 2003, in the form of mass protest demonstrations staged in over 600 towns and cities across the globe. Estimates suggest the combined attendance of individuals participating in s...

Due to rising mobility worldwide, a growing number of people utilizes cellular network services while on the move. Persistent urbanization trends raise the number of daily commuters, leading to a situation where telecommunication requirements are mainly dictated by two categories of users: 1) Static users inside buildings, demanding instantaneous and virtually bandwidthunlimited access to the I...

Today’s cellular telecommunications markets require continuous monitoring and intervention by regulators in order to balance the interests of various stakeholders. In order to reduce the extent of regulatory involvements in the day-to-day business of cellular operators, the present paper proposes a “selfregulating” spectrum market regime named “society spectrum”. This regime provides a market-i...

Over the past year or so, I have expanded my work in both areas of my current research. I have explored deeper the interaction between information technology and society, some outcomes of which have recently been published on the internet (Castells 2001). I have also continued my analysis of spatial transformation through an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of cities and regions. This...

Situations of conflict giving rise to social dilemmas are widespread in society and game theory is one major way in which they can be investigated. Starting from the observation that individuals in society interact through networks of acquaintances, we model the co-evolution of the agents’ strategies and of the social network itself using two prototypical games, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the S...

The concept of trust has been studied significantly by researchers in philosophy, psychology and sociology; research in these fields show that trust is a subjective view that varies greatly among people, situations and environments. This very subjective characteristic of trust however, has been largely overlooked within trust management used in the online social network (OSN) scenario. To date,...

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