Social Networks in Education

Nowadays popularity of social networks (draugiem.lv, facebook etc.) is increasing, virtually every student has at least one account in one of the social networks. But the problem is that little is known about how to use social networking in Latvian education. The author of this paper will try to prevent it, to summarize available information on social networking in education

EXAMINATION OF THE FEATURES OF LATVIAN SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR ENSURING COMPETITIVENESS

In the era of information, the global network has become one of the ways for expanding entrepreneurship and, consequently, various kinds of network services have emerged as well. Social networks provide the spread of information, the positioning of a company and the company’s communication with its clients. There is competition among such service providers, their services are diverse and the social networking opportunities offered are increasing; accordingly, the present research analyses opportunities to raise the competitiveness of social network services. The research aim is to perform an examination of the features of social networks in Latvia for ensuring the competitiveness of the social networks.The research focused on the social networking features of and the opportunities offered by the following social networks: draugiem.lv, facebook.com, ok.ru, vk.com.The research employed the following methods: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, the monographic method, document analysis, the graphic method and the sociological method – a survey.The competitiveness of social networks is mainly determined by the functional diversity and innovations of the social networks. Any social network company has to use innovations to outperform its competitors in an oversaturated market by means of providing new networking features

The Reliability to Predict Threat in Social Networks

During the analysis and study it will be possible to create and describe information damping mechanism for transition of threats from one user group to another (within the parameters of portraits), which is the main cause of the massively spreading threat on social networks. Threat predictability in social networks is associated with an adequate scrutiny of system and user portrait, which has a direct correlation

CORAS for Threat and Risk Modeling in Social Networks

AbstractAs more users joining social networks possibility of threats is growing, as the information can be reached by expanding number of individuals that increases the possibility that the information “package” will find way to subjects with the appropriate degree of sensitivity to the information – vulnerability. Therefore, the risk management process and, in particular, the risk identification and analysis of key characteristics should be performed. Presented paper describes usage of CORAS methodology for modelling of social network risks