Recent increases in syphilis in gay men in urban areas in the US and Europe have been associated with men meeting new sex partners on the Internet in chat-rooms and at websites that facilitate partner meeting. In response to the syphilis epidemic in San Francisco, the San Francisco Department of Public Health partnered with a community-based organization, Internet Sexuality Information Services...

Internet and new communication technologies have achieved a rapid development in the last years producing a significative impact on clinical psychology and psychotherapy. Psychotherapists seem to rely with more and more interest on the new technological tools such as telemedicine, audio and video chats, e-mail, SMS, MMS and the Instant Messaging Tools (IMs). All these technologies outline a sti...

Many scholars anticipate that online interaction will have a long-term effect on the evolution of language, but little linguistic research yet addresses this question directly. In sociolinguistics, social network relations are recognized as the principal vehicle of language change. In this paper, I develop a social network approach to online language variation and change through qualitative and...

In recent years many online text chat systems have been developed and use. Internet Relay Chat or IRC, ICQ, AOL and MSN are some examples of the most popular tools for real-time communications via the Internet and have been used both for doing serious work [4], decision making [5] and for entertainment purpose. Messaging programs tend to imitate each other and they imitate other chat programs e...

This articlecompares two extended interactions that took place recently on the Internet, one from a recreational Internet Relay Chat (IRC)channel, and the other froman academic listservdiscussion group. The two interactions exhibit similar gender dynamics, which can be characterized as harassment of female by male participants. This harassment takes different forms, in keeping with the possibil...

In this paper a recent application is showed that uses Internet as a supervision tool and remote control of a network of radio-TV relay stations to offer a better service to future clients. The relay stations network occupies a region of about 30.000 km. The operator of this telecommunications network counts with a SCADA system which permits to the operator monitoring and control of the whole n...

Wireless mesh networking is an exciting new technology that has applications in defence, metro-area Internet access, and transient networks (e.g: disaster recovery, conventions). In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a self-configuring, secure infrastructure mesh network architecture, called MeshCluster, composed using multi-radio network nodes. A subset of radio interface...