Online social networking is perhaps the biggest phenomenon of the Internet. Recently, there has been a rising concern over technology dependency. Recognizing that little theoretical and empirical attention has been given to examine technology dependency in the IS discipline, this study aims to examine the role of technology dependency in habit formation in the context of online social networkin...

The purpose of the study was to model the relationship between the temperament characters with a dependency on social networks in Babol. The method of this study was a correlation with Structural Equation Modeling and covariance based approach. The statistical population included all women between 20 and 40 years of age who were in five counseling centers in collaboration with Babol Justice Div...

Current Online social networks (OSN) are web services run on logically centralized infrastructure. Large OSN sites use content distribution networks and thus distribute some of the load by caching for performance reasons, nevertheless there is a central repository for user and application data. This centralized nature of OSNs has several drawbacks including scalability, privacy, dependence on a...

Social capital of the most important concepts in the social sciences is growing and the scope of its application in other sciences is increasing. This concept represents a ring lost in development. Scientists believe that cure the problems of modern society. Social capital is closely associated with the quality of life. Research methodology in the research work and information requirements with...

The present article seeks to investigate how pathological use of social networking sites (SNS) in mothers is related to their marital satisfaction,  mother-child relationship, and children’s behavioral problems. This study had a mixed methods research design with quantitative and qualitative components. In the quantitative part with correlational design, 323 mothers who had preschool children w...

writing has always been considered an important literacy skill for foreign/second language learners. the internet provides such unique applications for the writing skill as weblogs, wikis, and social networking websites. up to now researchers have put their focus on the learners’ performances in the traditional paper and pencil environment or wikis and blogs it is time to also consider learners...

Tweet-level sentiment classification in Twitter social networking has many challenges: exploiting syntax, semantic, sentiment and context in tweets. To address these problems, we propose a novel approach to sentiment analysis that uses lexicon features for building lexicon embeddings (LexW2Vs) and generates character attention vectors (CharAVs) by using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (Deep...

Social network has become an important part of every individual's daily routine. Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ are user interfaces for social network which can be accessed through internet and web 2. 0 technologies. It provides a platform for its users, where they connect, communicate, share, update etc. People are developing more interest for s...

The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between Facebook involvement and internet addiction. We sampled 577 university students in Taiwan and administered a survey of Facebook usage, Facebook involvement scale (FIS), and internet addiction scale. The FIS comprises three factors (salience, emotional support, and amusement). Results showed that the Facebook involvement scale had ...