... form of communication that has the potentially corrupting power to transform modern society. Jörg Räwel can be contacted at: joerg.raewel@gmail.com Communications technologies Sociology Social networks Systems theory Social change Evolution To avoid any misunderstanding...

...Mei Cai; Xue Zhang; Chen Yang Purpose Many studies on multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) assume decision-makers (DMs) act independently. But often DMs maybe interact or interfere with each other. With the rise of social networks, the concept of interference effects has transitioned from...

...Jiaping Zhang; Xiaomei Gong Purpose The research attempts to estimate how the use of WeChat, the most popular mobile social networking application in contemporary China, affects rural household income. Design/methodology/approach Our materials are 4,552 rural samples from the Chinese General...

... resource management Knowledge management Social networks Science fiction is a unique literary genre that draws upon scientific knowledge and logical reasoning to create imaginative stories that relate closely to real life (He, 2022). Since the publication of the first science fiction novel...

... pandemic. Yuying Liu can be contacted at: liuyuying_ustb@163.com 31 08 2022 01 11 2022 21 11 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social networks Supply chain management Manufacturing Operational...

... personality traits and social network characteristics to explain why and how these two factors affect employees' innovation behavior in OICs. Design/methodology/approach Three regression models were constructed to test the relationship between personality traits, social network characteristics...

... to the growth of business social networks, cloud computing, industrial Internet of things and intelligent production systems. This study recognizes the primary factors and their implications for intelligent production systems' success. In summary, the role of cloud computing, business social network...

... Communications technologies Systems theory Social systems Social networks Second-order cybernetics Autopoiesis In the course of the development of his theory of society until the end of the 1990s, Niklas Luhmann was able to state that “the dominance of functional differentiation...

... Scekic can be contacted at: scekicr@yahoo.com 15 06 2020 02 09 2020 24 09 2020 12 11 2020 24 12 2020 16 01 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Politics Social networks History Social change...

... several hypotheses about the potential of the approach and areas that may require advances in methodology and additional theoretical development. The paper encourages the development and use of formal approaches for the analysis and conceptualization of the public sphere. Social networks...

..., YouTube has been pioneering in its performance and holds the largest share of internet traffic. YouTube plays a significant role in popularizing information on social network. For all social media sites, viewership is an important and vital component to measure diffusion on a video-sharing site, which...

...Elena Veretennik; Aino Kianto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of how two types of informal social networks – those related to instrumental purposes of information sharing and those related to expressive purposes of interpersonal trust – impact teachers’ job...

...María Teresa Signes-Pont; Higinio Mora; Antonio Cortés-Castillo; Rafael Mollá-Sirvent Purpose This paper aims to present a framework to address the impact of people’s behaviour in the dissemination of information through mobile social networks. Design/methodology/approach This approach follows...

...@taylors.edu.my 03 11 2017 16 03 2018 02 06 2018 06 08 2018 18 09 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Iran Social networks Insurance industry Service firms are still looking for better tools and methods...

... show that the proposed URM mechanism with supporting the KCP conditions satisfies comprehensively behavioral interactions rather than the mechanism without KCP conditions in the social networks. Ghalenooie and Sarvestani (2016) have tried to recognize and evaluate the operative human properties...

... classifiers that are more rational. Finally, a semi-supervised sentiment classification algorithm is given. Findings Experimental results demonstrate that the novel algorithm can achieve really high accuracy with low time consumption. It is helpful for achieving high-performance social network-related...

... tables. Practical implications The proposed classification model is implemented on social networks with preferred features which are freely distribute as social entities with accuracy around 91 per cent. Social implications The deep learning using rough sets theory simulate the way of brain...

...Parina Alamir; Nima Jafari Navimipour Purpose As social networking services are popular, the need for recognizing reliable people has become the main concern. Quantifying the relationships between the users of social networks is also one of the important challenges with the increasing number...

... i = v i ) P ( ∩ F i ∈ F F i = v i ) Furthermore, the following holds by (1) for all S⊆F: Decision making Social networks Adaptation Algorithms Artificial intelligence Over the past decade social media...

... agents Learning Social networks Simulation Collective activities of human beings have exploded dramatically as society developed. However, a great number of casualties caused by catastrophes and emergencies such as earthquakes, fires and stampedes, are rooted in the local spatial congestion...