BACKGROUND Illicit or rogue Internet pharmacies are a recognized global public health threat that have been identified as utilizing various forms of online marketing and promotion, including social media. OBJECTIVE To assess the accessibility of creating illicit no prescription direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) online pharmacy social media marketing (eDTCA2.0) and evaluate its potential g...

In this study we present an analysis of the lexical quality of social media in the Web, focusing on the Web 2.0, social networks, blogs and micro-blogs, multimedia and opinions. We find that blogs and social networks are the main players and also the main contributors to the bad lexical quality of the Web. We also compare our results with the rest of the Web finding that in general social media...

In the era of Web 2.0, social networking sites play an important role in generating online information. People create billions of shares such as web pages or videos with friends on these sites every month. The share on the social networking site is visible to all of her or his friends and could be clicked by them and generates traffic back to the website where the information is from. In order ...

Previous research found that media richness is associated with positive evaluation of a web site. An experiment was carried out where participants were instructed to explore a web site presenting a popular town: Venice. According to a random distribution, participants were exposed (or not) to street-sounds when exploring the web site and had the possibility to control (or not) the photography (...

1. RELATED WORK The rise of social media has made Social Networking Services (SNSs) more attractive targets for spam and fraud, leading to increasingly sophisticated attacks. This trend is reflected in recent research, as papers have focused on identifying and classifying the various types of social media spam. Many of these studies employ techniques previously used to combat conventional email...

Web surveys have become a very important way of empirical research. The rise of social media provides a new platform for web surveys. Investigators can collect data based on different social media platforms to get more respondents of higher external validity at a lower cost. However, there is no domestic expert and scholar to conduct related researches on web surveys based on social media. This...

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Given the immense shifts the social networking sites and applications have brought about, a considerable number of researchers in the field of communication studies have turned to study different aspects of social media usage and factors influencing it. This study gathered data from 33318 US non-institutionalized citizens over 18 including 17079 females and 16239 males; they were members of web...

In this document, we describe techniques and approaches concerned with socialweb archive contextualization. In particular, we describe our work on cultural dynamics, which refers to gaining insights into cultural patterns in social media, context-aware social search, and social media mining. We examine the reaction of people in social media to news articles, by developing techniques that could ...

Currently, public and private institutions seeking to keep close to technological advances in terms of information and communication technologies. This perspective that the institutions are faced with the "Social Web", an era where the relationship and communication over the Internet is one of the main goals. Assuming the mission of creating a bridge between the technological relations Social M...