This paper provides an overview of current research on social media applications, including user demographics and how social media websites define themselves. The paper also describes user activities using social media and suggests known strengths and weaknesses of social media, and concludes by outlining several recommendations for developing strong online communities.

We examine the application of semantic context-aware Recommender Systems to improve interaction and navigation in a design-centric engineering domain. The small scale of this specialised environment renders most Web-scale solutions unsuitable, mandating tailored approaches. We report on initial work to identify challenges and promising categories of personalisation and adaptation together with ...

In a randomized-controlled trial, we tested 2 brief interventions designed to mitigate the effects of a “chilly climate” women may experience in engineering, especially in male-dominated fields. Participants were students entering a selective university engineering program. The social-belonging intervention aimed to protect students’ sense of belonging in engineering by providing a nonthreateni...

There is a continual growth in the use of social computing within a breadth of business domains; such as marketing, public engagement and innovation management. Software engineering research, like other similar disciplines, has recently started to harness the power of social computing throughout the various development phases; from requirements elicitation to validation and maintenance and for ...

As most employees are information-workers nowadays, they are very vulnerable to various malicious attacks. However, some threat sources have realized that it is far easier to obtain wanted information directly from authorized users than using software or other means to obtain such information. This is generally referred to as Social Engineering. Therefore, organizations are at risk, because mos...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by today’s corporate IT applications such as e-business systems, Web services or enterprise knowledge bases. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional rather than object, functional, or implementation-oriented,...

In this tutorial, we discuss challenges and solutions for engineering the Personal Social Semantic Web, a Web where user modeling and personalization is featured across system boundaries. Therefore, we learn user modeling and personalization techniques for Social Web systems. We dive into engineering aspects of social tagging and microblogging services and examine appropriate modeling and minin...

the goal of the present research was to determine the extent to which students use study and learning strategies (sls), and its relationship with their academic achievement. participants were 425 students from literature and social science and engineering schools of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who were randomly selected among two grades (i.e., year one and three) from both types of universi...

Social engineering refers to the selection of techniques that exploit human weaknesses and manipulate people into breaking normal security procedures. This may involve convincing people to perform atypical actions or divulge confidential information. It remains a popular method of bypassing security because attacks focus on the weakest link in the security architecture: the staff of the organiz...