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Showing 1 to 20 of 469 for “"social-networking"”.
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Social networking in vehicles
In-vehicle, location-aware, socially aware telematic systems, known as Flossers, stand to revolutionize vehicles, and how their drivers interact with their physical and social worlds. With Flossers, users can broadcast and share information, communicate with one another, and experience a more …
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Connectibles : tangible social networking
… "Connectibles," an instantiation of a tangible social network, a new type of social network application rooted in physical objects and real world social behavior. This research is inspired by social signaling and object theory, which together suggest that gifts act as physical symbols and …
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Advertising on Social Networking Websites
The rise of social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook over the past decade has been nothing short of phenomenal. Once regarded as nothing more than a passing "fad", these websites have grown to astronomical proportions; each website currently boasts 60+ million unique visitors each …
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Social Networking in Collegiate Public Relations
… of institutions of higher education implement social networking policies and procedures. The project includes a manual and marketing plan that will be implemented by the author of the project at his employer, Georgia Perimeter College.
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Social networking: security, privacy, and applications
Online social networks have become ubiquitous and changed the way that users interact online. There has been an enormous growth in the usage of online social networking in the past few years as users share a variety of information including personal profiles, pictures, and messages to socialize …
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The Effect of Social Networking on Grief
… by the Internet and the increased usage of social media; however, there is little research on the effects of social media on grief. This project's goal was to gather information about grieving via online social networking sites. Data was collected from 20 <em>in memoriam</em> profile …
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Political engagement and social networking sites exploring the relationship between social networking sites and political engagement in young adults
<p>Social Networking Sites (SNS) have extremely high rates of young adult users. Facebook.com report.s that more than half of its users are of college age. Due to the increasing number of political figures and political information on SNS, this study analyzes the relationship between SNS and …
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Organizational Use of Social Networking in Employment Actions
… federal court cases related to the use of social media websites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn) in various employment practices (e.g., selection, promotion, employee monitoring, layoffs). Court cases were identified using various online databases in an attempt to create an …
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Appropriation of privacy management within social networking sites
Social networking sites have emerged as one of the most widely used types of interactive systems, with memberships numbering in the hundreds of millions around the globe. By providing tools for their members to manage an ever-changing set of relationships, social networking sites push a constant …
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Expanding Planning Public Participation Outreach Through Social Networking
… within the last decade, there has been a rise in social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter. These websites emerged as informal virtual places for friends to connect, but have slowly evolved into a tool for businesses, and more importantly, government to connect with constituents. This …
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Television meets Facebook : social networking through consumer electronics
… running OCAP) connected to the Facebook social network. By connecting these two technologies, the user can now automatically watch the shows her friends like and are willing to report to the social network; in return, the user transmits her viewing data back to the social network.
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Factors Influencing Adolescent Impression Management on Social Networking Sites
… are more likely to use Facebook to fulfill social and content gratifications than Twitter, which provides partial support for my predictions (H1a & H1b). Additionally, participants are more likely to use Twitter to fulfill process and technology gratifications than Facebook (RQ1). …
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A Theory of Viral Growth of Social Networking Sites
Social networking platforms, systems designed to provide digital content services specifically for social network sites (SNS), continue to develop through a rapid combination of components forming a service ecology that is much more than a single tool or service. These SNS have experienced …
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CONNECTING THROUGH FACEBOOK: THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ON COMMUNICATION
… and Thesis Statement The current popularity of social networking has been cited in numerous recently published studies and articles and while the majority of users of these types of sites are young adults, other age groups are also showing increasing spikes in usage. I will argue that while …
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Internet boundaries for social networking: impact of trust and satisfaction
… married individuals hold boundaries for online social networking and the relationship between these boundaries and relational trust and satisfaction. Participants included 205 married individuals who had been married for an average of 27 years. Five specific boundaries were identified and tested …
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A social networking-enabled framework for autonomous robot skill development
… on their own. The idea is to create an online social network platform called Numbots that enables robots to learn new skills autonomously from their social circles. This platform integrates a state-of-the-art approach to learning from experience, called Constructing Skill Trees (CST), with a …
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Identifying users on social networking using pattern recognition in messages
Online social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, have become a huge part of many people's lives, often as their main means of communication with other people. Because of frequency of use and the apparent security measures of these sites, users often falsely believe the proffered identity of …
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