14-10-17 Scientists have shown for the first time that when insect larvae follow a leader to forage for food, both leaders and followers benefit, growing much faster than if they are in a group of only leaders or only followers. The work gives new insight in...

14-10-17 Research to be published in the International Journal of Web-Based Communities suggests that the familiar interfaces of online social networking sites might be adapted to allow us to interact more efficiently with our networked devices such as cars,...

14-09-28 While antidepressants are the most commonly used treatment for social anxiety disorder, new research suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is more effective and, unlike medication, can have lasting effects long after treatment has stopped...

14-09-11 The head of the Lycurgus branch of the Griffiths, as contrasted with the father of the Kansas City family, was most arresting. Unlike his shorter and more confused brother of the Door of Hope, whom he had not even seenfor thirty years, he was a litt...

14-08-28 Friendvertising is the use of social media website 'friends' to disseminate video adverts for products. Some videos have an apparently good message that people want to share and others are heart-warming or funny, but all are covert brand endorsement...

14-08-26 For credence（信任，凭证） services such as auto-repair, healthcare, and legal services, the benefit to the customers for the service is difficult to assess before and even after the service. A new study in a journal of the Institute for Operations...

14-08-14 Friendscaping is the act of trimming ones friends lists in various social media sites. 好友精简就是把各个社交网站上的好友名单进行清理压缩。 Example: Did you unfriend me? Yeah, I was friendscaping, and you bore me. 你是不是把我从好友列表里删除了？ 没...

14-08-14 Social supermarket is a supermarket intended for people living in poverty where cut-price food is sold. The food is cheap because it has damaged packaging or incorrect labelling. 社会超市是一种向穷人开放、出售减价食品的超市。这些食品因为包装破损或标...

14-07-10 Click farm is an organized group of low-paid workers employed to click on particular parts of web pages, especially approval buttons in social media as a way of making businesses seem popular. Click farm指有组织地雇佣一批低报酬工人专门点击网页上的某...

14-07-10 A new trend for sharing photographs of one's book collection has taken social media by storm, which is dubbed the ' shelfie '. 一阵分享个人藏书照片的新风潮正席卷社交媒体，这种拍下个人藏书的行为叫作书架自拍。 While some have gone about arranging thei...