social network

Baboons learn about food locations socially through monitoring the behaviour of those around them. While proximity to others is the key to acquiring...

An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are...

The emoticons used on Twitter are a language in themselves and are taking on new and often surprising meanings of their own, according to new...

Social networks like Twitter cannot help prevent disasters, but can quickly correct misinformation resulting from false rumours preventing possible...

As mobile phone cameras improve, emerging forms of social media are basing themselves in ‘iPhoneography’. While social media is often held up as an...

Silicon Valley-style tech clusters don’t just make social networks – they are also supposed to thrive on them. A new study by a University of...

'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items – and were used as the basis...

Many children and adolescents suffer physically and mentally from being bullied or physically attacked and threatened by their peers. A conference at...