This research aims at the relationship between dependence on mobile social networking and academic performance of second-grade male high school students in Tabriz City. This research is an applied research based on descriptive-correlational methodology. Statistical population of this research includes all second-grade male high school students in the academic year of 2016-2017 whose volume is 2...

Background: One of the most challenging aspects of today's technology is mobile social networking which has had a different effect on the health and social life of individuals. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between the use of mobile-based social networks and general health. Methods: This analytical and cross-sectional correlation study was done on 295 staff of Bush...

—Recently there are emerging applications based on opportunistic mobile social networks, which are kinds of delay tolerant networks (DTNs) with social relations between the nodes. In such networking scenarios, messages are disseminated through intermittent connections in a store-carry-and-forward manner. A major advantage of the opportunistic mobile social networks includes enabling communicat...

BACKGROUND Internet access via mobile phones and computers facilitates interaction and potential health communication among individuals through social networking. Many South African adolescents own mobile phones and can access social networks via apps. OBJECTIVE We investigated sociodemographic factors and HIV risk behaviors of adolescent social networking users in Soweto, South Africa. MET...

Mobile SNS (Social Networking Services) is a hotspot in the current mobile Internet field. Based on the user’s context information like location and surrounding users, it has an important practical significance to dynamically recommend friends for mobile SNS users by mining the potential social relations. By combining the context-awareness, community division and ontology modeling, this paper p...

The growing trend to social networking and increased prevalence of new mobile devices lead to the emergence of mobile social networking applications where users are able to share experience in an impromptu way as they move. However, this is at risk for mobile users since they may not have any knowledge about the users they socially connect with. Trust management then appears as a promising deci...

Social network services such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter support more or less permanent social relationships, where user interaction takes place via fixed or mobile access to the Internet. However, in many situations social relationships are ad-hoc (i.e., set up by (mobile) users located in a limited geographical area during a certain period in time). To effectively support this kind of soc...

In recent years, middleware for social mobile networking has attracted the attention of academia, causing the design and development of various approaches by researchers. This type of middleware facilitates and makes more efficient the development process of mobile social networking applications. Furthermore, middleware solutions also abstract the communication process with other applications, ...

Understanding the user acceptance of mobile social networking apps can provide powerful insights for managers and marketers of social networking apps to design effective strategies to attract users. Following the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study develops a research model of privacy concern, privacy risk, and perceived enjoyment as attitudinal beliefs, subjective norm as normative belief, ...