A wave of protest movements in recent years leveraging the potential of social media reveals the evolution in the process of collective identity in social networks, including the radical shift in the content and semantics of protest identity. The ...

The collaboration of diverse educational agents mainly promotes learning from such cooperative initiatives, while it aims at making every participant learn with and from each other in reflective, critical and autonomous ways, conducive to an improvement ...

Educational innovation involves focusing classroom dynamics towards new trends. For this purpose it is necessary to make effective changes in teaching practices and to adapt them to the specific contexts of their creation. The inclusion of Information ...

Popular media and policy rhetoric often portray Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a means to social and economic empowerment. Many assumptions embedded in ICT for Development (ICT4D) literature do the same. The ubiquitous presence of ...

People establish connections with the territory that live in and the territory is modelled by their presence. The sedimentation of the places, by chance or planned, get inhabited people according to models and connections that are deeply linked to the ...

This paper describes how a project to challenge digital exclusion resulted in GeezerPower: an artwork that is both a statement about reusable technologies and about older people's continuing interest in the world of the future. We use the story of its ...

This editorial announces a new special issue calling for research on the interplay between digital and social networks. Today, both digital and social networks play a crucial role in the structure and conduct of economic activity. Therefore, ISR seeks ...

Digital networks can be a technological basis for supporting and building personal networks within a company. They serve as tools for better communication by breaking distance and time barriers. On the one hand, a company can derive advantages such as ...

Abstract: Radiology, and indeed all of medicine, is under attack for providing high cost, redundant, patient unfriendly health care. Although we live with and may be discouraged by the health care crisis, in crisis there is opportunity. The authors ...

The main theme of this dissertation is traffic management for broadband networks operating under the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). The design of hybrid traffic management algorithms for the multiplexing of heterogeneous classes of data over a common ...

A theoretical basis for a stable, and useful, class of digital networks is developed in this dissertation. The networks in this class have properties similar to passive analog networks. These networks are all stable, and some networks, including all ...

With the advent of new digital technology into public telecommunications networks and given the fact that voice and data are carried in essentially the same way across a digital network, it is realized that the integration of voice and data services is ...