The World Wide Web has enabled knowledge sharing on a global scale. Through groups known as social question and answer (Q&A) communities, people can ask questions and collaboratively co-create knowledge. The question the study investigates is simple: Are the interactions resulting from the questions posted influenced by how the question is framed?
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Citations are used to determine the success of a paper: the more its quality is presumed, the more attention it receives and the more it is cited. But the fairness of these indicators is currently often challenged. Many doubt their probity, validity and comparability. Should the citations be discarded because of their supposed bias?
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The Covid-19 epidemic has profoundly changed the global economy and society, bringing all individuals and organizations into the VUCA era—an era of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity.
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Over the past decade, there has been a growing public fascination with modern society’s complex “linkedness.”
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Simply put, prosopography investigates common background characteristics of a group of actors in history through a collective study of their lives.
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How Social Network Analysis is Done and Types of Social Network Analysis
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The famous sociologist Georg Simmel claimed that society itself is nothing more than a web of relations. We’ll call these our social networks.
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