Purpose: Corporate social responsibility is becoming more and more important for the firms from developed countries. The main purpose of this research paper is to examine empirically the role of fair trade in developing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to find out the dynamics of CSR being used in organizations. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative case study research reviews ...

Spoken interaction with machines is not yet commonplace, despite extensive research and some commercial successes. Systems that allow unlimited conversation with arbitrary speakers are still to be seen. In addition to computational difficulties, environmental noise, social issues, multiple languages, and the general ambiguity of human dialogue, one fundamental aspect behind the problem is the g...

Despite the provisions of the UNFCCC some developed countries, the United States in particular, are insistent that their actions are contingent on ‘meaningful participation’ by developing countries. This paper explores the developments – social and economic – in the South that would influence GHG emissions and identifies those developments that are essential to a long-term solution of the clima...

This paper presents recent methodological developments aimed at establishing the daily spatiotemporal behaviour of individual people from their activity on social-networking services. Ultimately, the methods will be used to provide supplementary data to a complex agent-based model of urban dynamics. This work will review recent developments in the use of crowd-source data for understanding soci...

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. Through these developments, Goldthorpe shows how sociology has become more securely placed w...

The rise in social computing has facilitated a shift from consumer cultures, focused on producing finished media to be consumed passively, to cultures of participation, where people can access the means to participate actively in personally meaningful problems. These developments represent unique and fundamental opportunities and challenges for rethinking and reinventing design rationale and cr...

The first decade of the World Wide Web predominantly enforced a clear separation between designers and consumers. New technological developments, such as the cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0 architectures, have emerged to support a participatory Web and social computing. These developments are the foundations for a fundamental shift from consumer cultures (specialized in producing finished goods...

This position paper supports a conversational and social view of future e-Learning activities on the GRID. This evolution of the Web seems to be nicely synergic with current developments in Agents and Agent Communication Languages. Exactly what e-Learning needs in order to go over from a multimedia-based, passive or at best retroactive view of e-Learning resources to a proactive, peer-to-peer a...

Recent developments in technology mean that it is becoming increasingly possible to support collaboration around digital photos. This makes an exploration of the existing collocated social practices that are associated with photos both timely and relevant. This workshop will explore social practices in the areas of photowork, photo sharing and photo displays, with the aim of drawing together cu...

This paper looks at the tandem technologies of cars and the Internet, and the new ways that they are assembling the social with the mobile Internet. My argument is two-fold: firstly, the advent of mobile Internet in cars brings together new, widely divergent trajectories of Internet; secondly, such developments have social implications that vary widely depending on whether or not we recognize t...