Social networks, which emerged due to the rapid development of modern telecommunications and information technologies that led to the emergence of the Internet, can be viewed as a phenomenon of the information society. In a short time, there has been both quantitative and qualitative growth of social networks, which have become a common phenomenon in our life and the dominant way of communicati...

background and purpose: undoubtedly, social networks are being used extensively and are the most important communicative tool among students, especially at higher levels of education. we aimed to investigate the effect of social networks on education and academic learning. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 32 nursing students who were taking the cancer nursing course at ke...

abstract- this study aims to model optimal cultivation pattern based on the maximization of importing virtual water and social net income of major crops in marvdasht, iran. for this purpose, a linear programming model was developed considering constraints of virtual water and land limitations followed by other models to include employment restrictions. based on the findings, wheat and tomato we...

political participation of citizens is an important political issue which affects the process of political development in each society. in the age of information revolution, information and communication technologies are penetrating all levels of societies and have catalyzed the process of development in every country and encourage many scholars to study how these technologies affect the social...

today, online social networks are very popular due to the possibility of creating relationships between people all over the world. these social networks with possibilities such as friend recommendation generally use local features derived from social graph structure. for friend recommendation, there are different algorithms with local and global approaches. in this paper, we proposed an algorit...

Today, social networks have become an unseparable part of human society and because the facilities they provide to users, are very popular used every day. Social media, through online tools, group critical thought, team-centered project-based learning, problem-solving, their power lies not only in producing sharing knowledge among its members, but also reflecting new knowledge. The use virtual ...

This paper examines the effects of composition, size and structure of virtual networks on the diffusion of information. The research extends the Axelrod cultural model (ACM), an established theory rooted in political science research, to explain information dissemination among social actors in ICT-enabled virtual networks (Axelrod 1997). The investigation is focused on the impact of network str...

The important role of social capital has been extensively researched in real-world contexts. Much less attention has been paid to its relevance in the virtual world. Two fundamental questions need to be addressed: First, does there exist any online social capital in virtual world and how to measure it if it does exist? Second, how does online social capital affect the performance of virtual tea...