It becomes more difficult to explain the social information transfer phenomena using the classic models based merely on Shannon Information Theory (SIT) and Classic Probability Theory (CPT), because the transfer process in the social world is rich of semantic and highly contextualized. This paper aims to use twitter data to explore whether the traditional models can interpret information transf...

nima yoshij and badr shaker sayyab are two contemporary renowned poet in iran and iraq which using the concepts of the verious colors could show their own personal and social opinion at their poets. no doubt, personal experiences, litererary life and the political and social environment surrounding of each poet can affect the role of the colors in his poems. similar pretty or horrible incident ...

Mobile devices tend to travel along with people wherever they are and whatever they are doing, and consequently enter various social contexts of that person. This literally puts these devices in an ideal position to capture several aspects of social phenomena. We are currently designing and implementing SocioXensor, an extensible toolkit that exploits the hardware sensors and software capabilit...

Following Aristotle, " Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human " (Politika, ca. 328 BC). This is more than an abstract philosophical statement if, twenty five centuries after the great Greek philosopher, domains as diverse as psychology, physiology and neurology, just to mention a few, still i...

This paper discusses a navigation behavior on Internet information services, in particular the World Wide Web, which is characterized by pointing out of information using various communication tools. We call this behavior social navigation as it is based on communication and interaction with other users, be that through email, or any other means of communication. Social navigation phenomena are...

Using the mathematical model for hit phenomena, we analyze the political elections in Japan. The mathematical model of hit phenomena is a theory of time-dependent humanhuman interaction based on the many-body theory in physics. In contrast to the simple measurement of the total number of posting to weblogs and twitter for each candidate of elections, we found that the direct communication stren...

language has different functions and uses in society and social phenomena in functionalist grammar. so, linguistic phenomena can be studied through this approach. on the basis of functional theory, patterns of experience manifest in form of processes through idealistic meta-functions. accordingly, we can realize the linguisticbehavior of the poet or the writer in world representation studying d...

Thepot ential (and probably increasing) relevance of social psychology for the social sciences may lie in the fact that in the social sciences, there is an increasing need for theories on individual behavior and interaction that help explain how collective phenomena come about. By collective phenomena, I mean phenomena such as many people doing similar things (like committing crime or divorcing...