The microblogging social networks (µBSNs) can serve to motivate students by narrowing the physical and psychological distances separating teachers and students, thus increasing their confidence and engagement in the learning process. To examine this issue in greater depth, an experiment was...

Small ruminants play an important social and economic role in the lives of many pastoralists who inhabit many parts of Northern Kenya. The area is poorly served by modern communication services although things are slowly changing as mobile telephone services are rolled into these areas. This...

Dans cet article, l’analyse des réseaux sociaux (ARS) est décrite comme une nouvelle méthodologie d’étude des communautés en ligne. Afin d’amener à une meilleure compréhension de l’ARS, une synthèse des recherches antérieures est proposée. Elle détaille les techniques de...

Der Artikel verbindet Ergebnisse der Lebensstilforschung mit den moraltheoretischen Voraussetzungen einer Verantwortung von Konsumenten als integraler Bestandteil der Wirtschaftsethik. Die Bedeutung von Schichtfaktoren wie Einkommen und Bildung sowie Grundorientierungen der sozialen Milieus in...

Bulletin board methodology emerged at the end of the 1990s and is becoming the most frequently used qualitative study technique. This interactive approach groups a community of participants in a private or public online forum for a duration that varies from several days to several months....

The present research focuses on the differences that the tourists' belonging to two unlike cultural groups - i.e., low uncertainty avoidance individualists versus high uncertainty avoidance collectivists - imposes on the performance of the model explaining the generation of satisfaction and...

The logic of the research is based on the identification of Ukraine as an agrarian country. Proceeding from this provision, the article substantiates the priority of rural development as the basis of the strategic course for sustainable development of Ukraine. The leading role in rural...

The content industry has been undergoing a tremendous transformation in the last two decades. We focus in this paper on recent changes in the form of social computing. Although the content industry has implemented social computing to a large extent, it has done so from a techno-centric approach...

The article examines the social and cultural co-production of representations of a place addressing the role of tourism in this process. Conceiving narratives as sets of imageries and related performing practices, I aim at exploring the case of Venice, focusing on Burano/Mazzorbo context. This...

This paper analyses the beauty standards in Southeast Asia regarding the whiteness of people's skin and how it affects the local markets. This paper starts with is a brief introduction to the capital theories, social and cultural capitals as defined by Pierre Bourdieu. The history of the...