Social media analysis is rapidly becoming a widespread tool for various applications. Motivations for interest range from commercial marketing to the monitoring of social trends and political opinions. This work presents an actorbased platform, augmented with machine learning algorithms. To evaluate its possible application for the continuous analysis of social media streams, we also present a ...

Government organisations utilise a Citizen’s Charter in order to furnish the public with comprehensive details of their service offerings that defines how their overall organisational goals are achieved. Studies on the implementation of Citizen’s Charter in developing countries indicated that important social factors were not considered. Reviewed literatures indicated that social factors could ...

The formulation, adoption, and transformation of policy involves the interaction of actors as they negotiate, accept, and reject proposals. Traditional studies of policy discourse focus on social actors. By studying cryptography policy discourses, I argue that considering both social and technological actors in detail enriches our understanding of policy discourse. The case-based research looks...

Spatial analysis and social network analysis typically consider social processes in their own specific contexts, either geographical or network space. Both approaches demonstrate strong conceptual overlaps. For example, actors close to each other tend to have greater similarity than those far apart; this phenomenon has different labels in geography (spatial autocorrelation) and in network scien...

Social Computing aims to support the tendency of humans to interact with computers as if they were veritable social actors. Technology that reinforces the bias toward social interaction by producing appropriate responses may improve the communication between humans and computational devices. We believe that the most natural way to realize social computing is by using life-like synthetic charact...

With an increasing on agility, respectively the adaptation of IT artefacts with respect to changing requirements, a resource with an increasing importance for the differentiation of one enterprise towards its competitors is the human capital. Thereby, in this paper it will be argued that in order to use such human capital, a demanding influence is the social capital of the enterprise. Social ca...

The growth of the building-block organizations of an autonomous civil society in an authoritarian environment depends on the “political construction” of social capital. Social capital can be coproduced by state and local societal actors or by the interaction of local societal actors and external actors in civil society. Social capital may also be produced from below, but external allies still t...

Social network analysis investigates the structure of relations amongst social actors. A general approach to detect patterns of interaction and to filter out irregularities is to classify actors into groups and to analyze the relational structure between and within the various classes. The first part of this paper presents methods to define and compute structural network positions, i. e., class...

Abstract The article deals with the state of social farming in Czechia, which is obviously its infancy. main barriers to development are character Czech agriculture, radically based on large-scale production and deliveries large customers, insufficient cooperation individual ministries too narrow conception problem as care farming. At same time, we can expect increasing demand for this type man...