The use of SNA will obviously become effective in defeating weaknesses in terrorist countries and organizations. This is a modern form of human communication and organization. It is a necessity in the society. Every successful entity in the society is thought to involve this mechanism of communication. For instance, business corporations must create links over which their good and services get stability in the market. Businesspersons naturally have connections, which link them between their suppliers and consumers. This is a business entity. Moreover, SNA is crucial in most communication sectors in the society. The use of social media is taking up SNA since they are related in several ways. With the human connectivity and relation, what takes place between the entities can be derived under guided and legal approaches. The links, which often involve a number of people, are prone to exposures even when they are thought to be…...
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Likar, L.E. (2011). Eco-warriors, nihilistic terrorists, and the environment. Santa Barbara, CA:
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3). A sample screenshot from JADSoftware's Internet Evidence Finder application is shown in Figure 2 below.
Figure 2. Sample screenshot of Internet Evidence Finder Interface
Source: JAD Software at http://www.jadsoftware.com/go/wp-content/themes/jadsoftv2 / images/iefv4-1.png
Moreover, IEF v4 also has some useful features for social networking site applications, including:
1. Facebook live chat search has been updated to locate additional chat (including damaged fragments); the vendor adds that messages sent and received using the Facebook live chat feature. Information found with the message can include the Facebook profile ID used to send/receive the message, the from/to names and ID's, and the date/time (in UTC) that the message was sent; however, there are a few different formats of Facebook chat and not all formats include all this data).
2. Facebook unicode text is now converted.
3. Facebook page fragments: Facebook related web pages, including but not limited to the Inbox page, emails, photo galleries, groups, and so on. Most…...
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Anklam, P. (2007). Net work: A practical guide to creating and sustaining networks at work and in the world. Boston: Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann.
Carter, H.L., Foulger, T.S. & Ewbank, a.D. (2008). Have you Googled your teacher lately?
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Facebook is a mess because it allows anyone you "friend" to place anything on your home page or profile. Social networks have become more full of sarcastic, mean comments over time, making them an aspect of many peoples' lives they would rather not have. I would design a social network that would be more oriented towards building up others and helping them grow personally and professionally.
Using the true meaning of Web 2.0 technologies as shown in Figure 1, I'd design a social networking site that uses gamification to reward its members for freely sharing information and for providing feedback. The essence of Web 2.0 technologies is to create a strong network of connections and a very egalitarian mindset to the sharing of information and knowledge, both tacit and implicit (O'eilly, 2006). I'd design the social network to also give people the right to take down any comment others posted…...
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Bernoff, J., & Li, C. (2008). Harnessing the power of the oh-so-social web. MIT Sloan Management Review, 49(3), 36-42.
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O'Reilly, T. (2006). Web 2.0: Stuck on a name or hooked on value? Dr. Dobb's Journal, 31(7), 10-10.
Social Network
The film The Social Network by director David Fincher tells about the founding of the website "Facebook" which is an internet site that now allows people all over the world to communicate with each other. It started out as a website just for Harvard University and became one of the most popular websites that exist with millions of people who use it every day. The movie is very dramatic and discusses how men can be very greedy and they can abuse their friends and do bad things to people who trusted them so long as it means that they get the things they want out of their lives. In the story of The Social Network the main character is named Mark Zuckerberg and it tells about how he was involved in the founding of the website Facebook and the other people involved too.
In the movie The Social Network,…...
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The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher. Perf. Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. Sony, 2010.
DVD.
Social Network for acers
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acerTimes.com provides a social media platform that can be regarded as the very first dedicated international hub of the automotive and motorsports industry. It is posed to benefit both users and client by its user friendliness as a platform which helps the automotive and motorsports industry connect and understand their clients in the delivery of an endless variety of schemes which exposes and improves motorsports and social media marketing in many ways.
The growth in the motorsports advertisement industry has seen it develop into a multi-million dollar industry (DeMoss,2012).The social media as a collaborative and advertisement platform is noted to have a key role within the motorsports industry (Street & Smith,2010). The company will also partner with other media companies in realizing its marketing objectives as noted by Bode (2010)
At acerTimes.com, we are gearing to execute a unique business model supported with an award winning revenue…...
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Bode Racing (2010).Marketing Proposal.
http://www.bobbode.com/MarketingProposal.pdf
DeMoss, V (2012). Take Your Team To The Next Level! -- Effective Motorsports Marketing, Part 2
http://www.performanceracing.com/magazine/online_bonus_feature/motorsports_marketing_part_two.html
Bourdieusian Concept of Social Capital & Inequity in Education - Article Review
In this article, authors Sandra Ditka and Kusum Singh apply the sociological concept of "social capital" into educational research. The authors are investigating whether the Bourdieusian concept of social capital can help explain the growing inequity in education, as seen in the greater dropout rates, lower graduation rates and lower test scores in many school districts. Towards this, the authors conduct a critical review of the body of research regarding the effects of social capital on primary and secondary education. They conclude that while the current research has not created a coherent and unified framework, the concept of social capital has much to offer to researchers interested in teasing out the factors contributing to educational decline.
One of the most important points Ditka and Singh make is their recognition that social capital is positively linked to educational attainment. Young students…...
Social Network Sites on elationships
Describe the major research methodologies
In the modern world, the social networking sites are key cons to the existence of trustworthy relationships that last for longer years. The essence of relationship between couples is gaining trust and love. The quality of romantic relationships in the current world has reduced, and the number of partners that are trustworthy has declined. The introduction of the social networks is a vital aspect in the communication sector (Lovett, 2011). Communication is vital between the human beings since it assists in sharing of experiences. Communication also assists the human beings to express the inner feelings that require sharing. Without communications, it is almost difficult for the human beings to survive without desired communication.
Several methodologies used in discovering the effect of the social network sites to the existing romantic relationships. Some of the common social network sites that enable the existence of…...
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Lovett, J.N. (2011). Social media metrics secrets: Do what you never thought possible with social media metrics. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing
Su, K.L. (2002). Analog filters. Norwell: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Levy, J.A., & Pescosolido, B.A. (2002). Social networks and health. Oxford: JAI an imprint of Elsevier Science Ltd.
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At present, large companies tend to have knowledge management strategies, because they can be integrated into information management strategies. IT and other technological companies have KM strategies, but so do many other firms. Creative firms such as advertising agencies, research firms such as pharmaceutical companies and firms whose business is based on acquired knowledge such as legal firms all place strong emphasis of knowledge management. In future, as more firms understand that knowledge is a crucial source of sustainable competitive advantage, all firms will see knowledge management as being important.
There are only limited amounts of education opportunities to acquire KM skills, although the subject does receive some coverage in business school now. KM programs are attractive because of the value of knowledge in today's business world and because of the increasing recognition that knowledge is one of few legitimate sources of sustainable competitive advantage. There will be more academic…...
Much as employers claim to despise Facebook, it has become a useful way of screening employees.
For advertisers, who feared losing a captive television audience to the Internet, Facebook is a way to engage in careful market segmentation and targeting. It expands the methods of surveillance into bedrooms and homes, and makes the posters willing participants in the process. Interactivity seems to have the illusion of consumer choice (given that consumers can select what websites to interact with) but because online consumer buying and surfing patterns can be followed, the online experience can be invisibly tailored to reflect seller's knowledge -- everyone has had the experience of being 'followed' by an advertisement after searching the web for a particular product, such as a new pair of Nike sneakers.
While posting on Facebook is very public, it can feel very private. A person can seem very much locked away in his or…...
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Andrejevic, Mark. 2002. The work of being watched: Interactive media and the exploitation of self-disclosure. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 19 (2): 230 -- 248.
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One major strength of this theory is that it creates the occasion for strategy development by inventing new technologies or methods. It looks at where the company is and where it wants to go and develops a plan on how to get there. Managers must lead and organize the functional activities within the organisation, assess and develop the processes that they are responsible for, and influence those processes through standardization, communication and automation to then close the gap in order to provide ever increasing efficiency and effectiveness. It is this strategy's role to mould these functions into a rational organisational whole that will succeed in the chosen markets (Network Effectiveness Theory of Change, 2010).
Use of Theories
By definition these theories are both concerned with the interactions of what goes on within the organization. Social Network Analysis focuses on the interrelations of the actors within an organization while the Operational Effectiveness Theory…...
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Network Effectiveness Theory of Change. (2010). Retrieved from www.packard.org/wp.../OE-network-theory-of-change-2010.doc
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The crux of this paper emerges a maturity model that defines how social networks eventually attain trusted status among their members, with the structure of the networks themselves being integral to the growth of explicit or tacit knowledge. A fascinating finding is that when social networks are in a star topology there is a pronounced lower level of transactive information sharing. Contrasting this limiting effect on information sharing based on a star topology, the core-periphery structure enables more egalitarian information sharing and transactive use of data.
One of the key findings of the work by Huang and DeSanctis (2005) underscores' Cooks' (2001) assessment of multiple roles within a social network creating more of a basis for trust and more effective transactive data being shared and published throughout a network. From these observations by Huang and DeSanctis (2005) and the resulting influences of asymmetrical and symmetrical flows between nodes in an…...
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Cook (2001) - Social Networks: A Primer. James a. Cook. Department of Sociology. Duke University. January 6, 2001
Huang and DeSanctis (2005) - Mobilizing Informational Social Capital in CyperSpace: Online Social Network Structural Properties and Knowledge Sharing. Duke University. Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Information Systems.
Weisinger and Salipante (2005) - a Grounded Theory for Building Ethnically Bridging Social Capital in Voluntary Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, March 2005 29-55. Accessed from the Internet on September 14, 2006: ( http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/34/1/29.pdf#search=%22Adler%2C%20P.%2C%20%26%20Kwon%2C%20S.%20 (2002).%20Social%20capital%3A%20Prospects%20for%20a%20new%20concept.%20Academy%20of%20Management%20Review%2C%2027(1)%2C%2017-40.%22
Therefore, managing texting threads and system security will be a major concern. User comfort must be ensured. Social networking administrators must be trained and designated.
In her book on online teaching, Tisha Bender explores this challenge. Discussion -- based online interaction is primarily textual. It can be synchronous or asynchronous. The key is adapting ourselves to the online environment. e need to be able to function without the visual cues that we normally get in person regarding boredom, etc. (such as yawning) (Bender, 2003, xvi).
Now, we have to look briefly to see how social networks are being used to structure organizations. ith regard to this task, this author has consulted the dissertation of Jennifer Ann Golbeck which raises many of the pertinent questions that will lead us to answers. As her title indicates, the question boils down to one of trust (Golbeck, 2005, 31). Trust is based upon a system…...
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Social, Legal and Ethical Issues of Social Networking Website Facebook
There has been an amazing growth of the social networking sites and their impact in the lives of the users is phenomenon. Facebook which has over 250 million users has influenced the lives of many users in meaningful ways allowing them to connect and stay in touch while socializing through innovative platforms. Facebook is therefore raised several social, ethical and legal concern because of the many users it has and the amount of information it contains. These issues is made more intricate because of the nature of internet which allows for information to be easily shared or made accessible to myriads of people often strangers in a matter of seconds. While some issues are as a result of the different technological aspects of Facebook platform and application, a great deal of them can be solved by excising simple caution with information…...
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Social Networking: Does modern day networking sites make people unsocial?
There is vast difference noticeable in the behavior of youngsters and middle aged persons today that was not observed about two decades ago. Then it was mostly outdoors and hangouts with friends in person, more games, and more real socialization and formation of peer and following groups, clubs and hobbies that involved social interactions and learning. While the TV and radio did make adverse impact, it did not keep people from other pursuits but the advent of internet has changed human life like never before. Some of the concerns that have to be addressed in the use of modern gadgets are the addiction and psychological pressure that people get -- commonly called the technology overload. Individuals get pressurized in using the gadgets as in the work place or for pleasure that leads to a kind of addiction having negative consequences.
The second…...
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g. politicians, movie and rock stars, etc.). Indeed, the combination of social networking sites and an abundance of cellular services and phones has even changed the socio-political landscape in countries that do not have an open or democratic regime (e.g. protests in Iran, etc.) (Friends, Fans and Followers, 2011).
The role of social networks have changed the way marketers and politicians view their audience, communicate with them, and even interact. Since social network sites are organized around people, there is a shift in organization behavior within the online community based on the way the message (or candidate) communicates. Over the last decade, really since 2003, online social networks have grown into powerful multi-million member sites, garnering vast amounts of attention from nearly every direction. Facebook and MySpace, two of the most prominent online social network sites in the U.S. account for nearly 6% of all visitor sessions by Internet users and…...
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Since we do not know what you have put in your first page, it is a little difficult to tell you where to start on your second page. What we are going to do is go over some of the negative effects of gentrification and give you some links to find more information about those negative effects. Hopefully, this will help you get over your writer’s block and get past page two.
At first glance, gentrification may seem like a positive. After all, gentrification means an upward trend economically for a historically economically disadvantaged neighborhood. However, long-term residents....
While psychology refers to the study of the mind, clinical psychology specifically refers to that branch of the discipline that focuses on using psychology to create positive change, whether in individual lives or in the community as a whole. There is a wide variety of topics you could approach in your thesis, depending on what topic interests you the most.
Topic Ideas
Given the popularity of online dating and dating apps, writing an argumentative essay against online dating is a good choice. It is always more interesting to write a position paper that may be unusual, because it is unlikely to recycle the same arguments that your professor will see in other papers. There is actually a myriad of reasons that online dating may not be as successful (or as safe) as traditional in-person dating, and any of these reasons could serve as the basis for an argumentative essay. They include but are not limited to potential....
1. The Impact of Social Structure on Career Choices
2. Exploring Social Hierarchies in the Workplace
3. How Social Class Influences Occupational Opportunities
4. Gender and Social Structure in the Workplace
5. The Role of Education in Job Placement and Social Mobility
6. The Intersection of Race and Social Structure in Employment
7. Social Networks and Job Advancement
8. Social Status and Occupational Prestige
9. The Effects of Economic Inequality on Job Opportunities
10. The Evolution of Social Structure and its Impact on the Job Market
11. Power Dynamics and Social Stratification in the Workplace
12. The Stigma of Low-Status Jobs in Society
13. Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Gender Equality in Career....
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