The spatial structure of large-scale online social networks has been largely unaccessible due to the lack of available and accurate data about people’s location. However, with the recent surging popularity of location-based social services, data about the geographic position of users have been available for the first time, together with their online social connections. In this work we present a...

social learning and knowledge generation are two key factors to achieve successful natural resources co-management. social learning can be beneficial by broadcasting and transmitting experiences and problem solving ideas in a group of people. social learning networks can transmit knowledge and experiences from one node to another in the network. social learning can produce a suitable learning a...

Social media as the prominent phenomenon of digital culture has become infrastructure for social and political movements. Digital platforms such Facebook Twitter have practical tools movements, especially communicating, organizing, gaining wider publicity. However, a more careful study shows that activism on can only an impactful socio-political movement if it meets requirements contemporary cu...

case study 18 to 29 years of kurdistan youths theoretical framework of this study is based on theories of rojek, stibens and bourdieu and studies the situation of leisure time among youths as one of the social groups influencing the dynamics of cultural, social and political deal. survey method and questionnaire have been used to collect data and analyzes has been made. the study population con...

This paper introduces a text-based chat system designed to support conversations anchored to specific locations of shared images and reports our experience in operating it at WISS2004. Our system is unique in that it focuses on supporting communications scattered around among multiple images, while other systems for anchored conversations are designed for deeper discussions within a single docu...