Web 2.0 is changing the study of medicine by opening up totally new ways of learning and teaching in an ongoing process. Global social networking services like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Drive and Xing already play an important part in communication both among students and between students and teaching staff. Moreover, local portals (such as the platform [http://www.leipzig-medizin.de] e...

In the massive online worlds of social media, users frequently rely on organizing themselves around specific topics of interest to find and engage with like-minded people. However, navigating these massive worlds and finding topics of specific interest often proves difficult because the worlds are mostly organized haphazardly, leaving users to find relevant interests by word of mouth or using a...

There is an explosion of youth subscriptions to original content-media-sharing Web sites such as YouTube. These Web sites combine media production and distribution with social networking features, making them an ideal place to create, connect, collaborate, and circulate. By encouraging youth to become media creators and social networkers, new media platforms such as YouTube offer a participator...

BACKGROUND The promotion of evidence-based cessation services through social media sites may increase their utilization by smokers. Data on social media adoption and use within tobacco control programs (TCPs) have not been reported. OBJECTIVE This study examines TCP use of and activity levels on social media, the reach of TCP sites, and the level of engagement with the content on sites. MET...

Readership popularity has been an important proxy for the success of many online interactive media. Given the exponential growth of new web properties and the hype of competition among them, attaining and retaining popularity is difficult. One possible approach to this problem is to enhance the competitiveness of web presence by using appropriate web design mechanisms. So far, research in this ...

This research was designed to theoretically address and empirically examine research issues related to customer’s satisfaction with social commerce. To investigate these research issues, data were collected using a written survey as part of a free simulation experiment. In this experiment, 136 participants were asked to evaluate two social commerce websites using an instrument designed to measu...

Web 2.0 studies position new social media as creating relational connections, yielding new geographies based on increased awareness. YouTube exemplifies these media, fostering relations between geographically and politically disparate people. Moving beyond the dichotomy between space and cyberspace, this paper expands upon Wellman’s (2001) description of cyberplace, and argues that place and cy...

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The emergence of the mediated social web – a distributed network of participants creating rich media content and engaging in interactive conversations through Internet-based communication technologies – has contributed to the evolution of powerful social, economic and cultural change. Online social network sites and blogs, such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and LiveJournal, thrive due to their f...

Organizations are inspired by the massive social media use in the private domain and try to filter interactions and knowledge sharing in social media also for professional purposes. Even if the interest in social media is strong in the private domain, the use is far less widespread in organizations. The trajectory of traditional information spread through web platforms into use of new and open ...