Social media constitutes a major component of Web 2.0 and includes social networks, blogs, forum discussions, micro-blogs, etc. Users of social media generate a huge volume of reviews and comments on a daily basis. These reviews and comments reflect the opinions of users about different issues, such as: products, news, entertainments, or sports. Therefore different establishments may need to an...

Internet blogs provide forums for discussions within virtual communities, allowing readers to post comments on what they read. However, such comments may contain abuse, such as personal attacks, offensive remarks about race or religion, or commercial spam, all of which reduce the value of community discussion. Ideally, filters would promote civil discourse by removing abusive comments while pro...

This study is a typological description of written formative feedback in an EFL context in Iran. Twenty M.A. students of TEFL participated in the study. They were required to summarize a scholarly article in each session on which the instructor would provide written corrective feedback (CF). Written formative comments were extracted, coded, and categorized into various types, such as asking for...

A multimedia blog creation system is described that uses Japanese dialogue with an intelligent robot. Although multimedia blogs are increasing in popularity, creating blogs is not easy for users who lack highlevel information literacy skills. Even skilled users have to waste time creating and assigning text descriptions to their blogs and searching related multimedia such as images, music, and ...

Nowadays, more and more people are using online news platforms as their main source of information about daily life events. Users of such platforms have access to an increasing amount of articles of different topics, stories, and view points. Thus, a news personalization service is needed to filter the flow of available information and satisfy users needs. To this end, it is crucial to understa...

Although the number of users of home mechanical ventilation (HMV) is increasing, information regarding the users' perceptions of the impact of HMV on their lives is incomplete. We administered an open-ended questionnaire to 98 (48 male, 50 female) HMV users aged (mean +/- SD) 47.4 +/- 19.5 years with COPD (9%), thoracic restrictive disease (43%), and neuromuscular disease (48%). At the time of ...

Private entrepreneurs and government organizations widely adopt Facebook fan pages as an online social platform to communicate with the public. Posting on attract people’s comments shares is effective way increase public engagement. Moreover, comment functions allow users who have read posts express their thoughts. Hence, it also enables us understand users’ emotional feelings regarding that po...

In the age of Web 2.0, users are increasingly familar with social tagging or bookmarking where comments and ratings are added by users to objects on the web for public consumption. Such comments and ratings are represented in bookmarks which can be used for information or opinion sharing, user interest discovery, and content recommendation. In this paper, we investigate social bookmarking in di...

With the recent advance of micro-blogs and social networks, people can view and post comments on the websites in a very convenient way. However, it is also a big concern that the malicious users keep polluting the cyber environment by scamming, spamming or repeatedly advertising. So far the most common way to detect and report malicious comments is based on voluntary reviewing from honest users...

Cyberbullying is widely used nowadays in electronic communication. It takes different forms, and it considered a serious problem that faces all communities. Therefore, the current study an attempt to discover cyberbullying with its types found one type of communication, “Facebook”. The data are as screenshots collected from archived formal page on Facebook called “BBC News”. encompass (10 comme...