A variety of information technology artifacts, such as those supporting reputation management and digital archives of past interactions, are commonly deployed to support virtual communities. Despite the ubiquity of these artifacts, research on the impact of various IT-based features on virtual community communication is still limited. Without such research, the mechanisms through which informat...

Present society of Iran, with its young population structure specially after forming and developing modernism and its conflict with tradition as well as the voluminous, various, rapid dominance of mass media has been affected by value conflict whether in micro level of personality or macro level of internalization and turned to a society full of conformance, adaptation, alienation, identity con...

The design of identity management preserving an individual’s privacy must not stop at supporting the user in managing her/his present identities. Instead, since any kind of privacy intrusion may have implications on the individual’s future life, it is necessary that we identify and understand the issues related to longterm aspects of privacyenhancing identity management. Only that way, accordin...