One of the reasons behind the success of Social Network Analysis is its simple and general graph model made of nodes (representing individuals) and ties. However, when we focus on our daily on-line experience we must confront a more complex scenario: people inhabitate several on-line spaces interacting to several communities active on various technological infrastructures like Twitter, Facebook...

This paper argues that AIED (Artificial Intelligence in Education) can promote social inclusion by focusing on civic engagement. By teaching the skills of policy reasoning, journalism, and activism, AIED techniques can be used to train an alert and knowledgeable citizenry that can in turn demand policies that promote social inclusion. Unlike the AIED export approach in which we adapt AIED techn...

The Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland – have developed a particular model of welfare, employment and economic governance. It is based on universal access to taxfinanced social services and social insurance, full employment secured by expansive macro-economic policies and active labour market policies, highly organized labour markets, corporatist interest mediation, an...

Software defined infrastructures are computer infrastructures expressed in computer code. As software defined infrastructures is a young technology the body of scientific knowledge on the subject is small. This study aims at identification of quality aspects of software defined infrastructure projects by interviewing practitioners in the field. The result is a quality model containing quality c...

Developments in genomics research are considered to have great potential for improving health care - making genomics an urgent site for translational efforts. Yet while much emphasis is put on the technical challenges of translation, there is less scholarly attention for the social infrastructures through which novel medical interventions may be delivered to patient populations. Reflecting the ...

Multimedia technology is becoming ubiquitous in modern society, and it is having profound effects on institutions and our expectations of the future. The technology is very fluid, and its development is shaped by a great many social factors. Prediction of the co-evolution of multimedia technology and society needs to be informed by a research framework that focuses attention on the key social, ...