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Month: <span>March 2015</span>

Related Academic Work 2 – Mark Zuckerberg’s Secret on HR

Mark Zuckerberg Shares His Secret to Recruiting the Best Employees   “I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person” (Mark Zuckerberg). Start-ups have more work to do than they have people to do it.   FACT for BeSeated Commitment and trust …

Related Academic Work 1 – Connecting to Change the World

Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact Key Point: Successful networks require thoughtful design. I have reviewed some of the key design issues that may arise in the planning of ‘Be Seated’.   Key Design/Review Issues Applying to BeSeated 1.  Purpose: reason for being. …

Funded PhD Studentship

Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship in the Faculty of Humanities in collaboration with the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. This studentship is funded through an SMMI Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Award, to start October 2015. The successful candidate will work under …

About The Team

Our team “Be Seated” has 6 members from various cohorts working as a team for the module Science of Online Social Networking within Electronics and Computer Science(ECS) Faculty. Here is a brief details about our team members. Antigoni Kritioti (ak5e14) Faculty: ECS-MSc Software Engineering Key Skills: Web programming, Software engineering   …

Generational divide when ‘doing politics’ vanishes on need to fix it

Gerry Stoker, Mark Evans and Max Halupka examine how younger generations are engaging with democratic politics by comparison with older generations in Australia, at The Conversation. The findings of their survey work and analysis challenge negative stereotypes and give grounds for optimism. They show that within the younger generations are …

Self-identity. Identification. Identifying others.

During several ESN meetings, I took a lot of notes on people very often addressing the question of identity in relation to themselves or others. This happened during presentations, speeches or simply random conversations with people in the network. Here are some of the things I found interesting.