Online social networks such as Friendster, MySpace, or the Facebook have experienced exponential growth in membership in recent years. These networks offer attractive means for interaction and communication, but also raise privacy and security concerns. In this study we survey a representative sample of the members of the Facebook (a social network for colleges and high schools) at a US academi...

Half a century after Michael Polanyi conceptualised ‘the tacit component’ in personal knowing, management studies has reinvented ‘tacit knowledge’—albeit in ways that squander the advantages of Polanyi’s insights and ignore his faith in ‘spiritual reality’. While tacit knowing challenged the absurdities of sheer objectivity, expressed in a ‘perfect language’, it fused rational knowing, based on...

Based on a widely held belief that immersion provides the best language learning opportunities, a large number of Asian students go to English-speaking countries to improve their English language skills. These strongly motivated learners arrive in a new country with a bag of expectations, learner beliefs, and imaginations about the new community they are about to enter. However, learners are of...

A National Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure is not complete without explicit consideration of the needs of rural communities. While the American population has urbanized, the United States depends on rural communities for agriculture, fishing, forestry, manufacturing and mining. Approximately 20% of the US population lives in rural areas with a skew towards aging adults. Further, nearly 25...

Cabinet paintings showing an (art) collection in interior developed as a genre the early seventeenth century Antwerp. The depicted could be actual art imagined, idealized interior, or, more metaphorically, it also fictional of paintings, sculptures, scientific instruments, silverwork, textiles, and naturalia such flowers or shells. Jan Bruegel Elder (1568–1625) Pieter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), a...

O artigo tem como objeto a análise da produção de bandeiras confeccionadas por artistas brasileiros. A partir ideia que são objetos performativos e propositivos, impulsionam formalização novos relatos comunidades fora das lógicas representatividade pertencimento macropolíticas, as obras Bandeyra Nacional (2015), Frederico Costa, Amarelo, sei lá... desespero (2019), Ítala Isis, América é Marica ...