E nergy, telecommunications, transportation, and financial infrastructures are becoming increasingly interconnected, thus posing new challenges for their secure, reliable, and efficient operation. All of these infrastructures are themselves complex networks, geographically dispersed, nonlinear, and interacting both among themselves and with their human owners, operators, and users. No single en...

Digitization and contemporary use of social media platforms is changing how we perceive and use IT, both in organizations and as citizens or consumers. These developments have also transformed and changed many industries, bringing both opportunities and challenges. One industry that was affected by digitization relatively early is the media industry, leading to studies on online journalism, gat...

The paper set out to examine the challenges of newspaper management in information and communication technology age, paying attention to the Nigerian situation. The study seeks to achieve the following objectives: to find out the challenges of newspaper management in a digital age, to determine the regularity of change of ICT facilities in select newspapers, to find out the impact of ICTs adopt...

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...

To design an infrastructure for knowledge communities, we need both technical expertise and an understanding of human and social aspects of communities. Technologies for implementing such infrastructures are often available. However, there is no clear, proven procedure for building successful communities. In this paper, we review research literature concerning user practices and social aspects ...

Australia’s labour market and its cities are changing, along with the nature of housing and community configurations. Major new master planned housing developments are being undertaken to meet demand as cities struggle to cope with increasing populations. Such urban developments are influencing workforce, household and community relations, which in turn drive health and well-being outcomes, and...