BACKGROUND Social media can be used in health care settings to enhance professional networking and education; patient communication, care, and education; public health programs; organizational promotion; and research. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the use of social media networks for the purpose of professional development among health care professionals in Saudi Arabia using...

C have increasingly advocated social media technologies to transform businesses and improve organizational performance. This study scrutinizes the predictive relationships between social media and firm equity value, the relative effects of social media metrics compared with conventional online behavioral metrics, and the dynamics of these relationships. The results derived from vector autoregre...

Information and Communication Technologies and the Internet in particular, already integral elements of marketing, are fundamentally transforming the market dynamics and add new parameters to the marketing environment. The rapid adoption of a new generation of online applications known as Social Media (or Web 2.0) resulted in a new breed of powerful, sophisticated, empowered customers increasin...

Based on repetitive visits to three Scandinavian newspaper organizations, this paper presents trajectories of evolution for three Scandinavian news sites from 1996 to 1999. Genre awareness is an explanation of how users and designers create and maintain web site awareness beyond the individual site. In the paper genre is elaborated in terms of content, form and rationale. From the data it is co...

This study aims to develop a social recommendation media GIS (Geographic Information Systems) specially tailored to recommend tourist spots. The conclusions of this study are summarized in the following three points. (1) Social media GIS, an information system which integrates WebGIS, SNS and recommendation system into a single system, was conducted in the central part of Yokohama City in Kanag...

The new social media sites—blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others—underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. The photo-sharing site Flickr, for example, allows users to upload photographs, view photos created by others, comment on those photos, etc. As is common to other social med...

In this article, we introduce the concept of learning analytics in the context of TUT Circle, a social media enhanced web service for learning in use at Tampere University of Technology. Through three case studies, we apply the methods of learning analytics for insight into the bursty nature of learning activities, procrastination, peer learning, and co-operation between two academic tribes. We...

Finding, accessing and consuming multimedia content on the Web is still a challenge. In this position statement we discuss three still widely neglected issues arising when one is interacting with multimedia content in social media environments: provenance, trust, and privacy. We will introduce a generic model allowing us to identify potential risks and problems, further discuss this model regar...

Using semantic technologies for mining and intelligent information access to social media is a challenging, emerging research area. Traditional search methods are no longer able to address the more complex information seeking behaviour in media streams, which has evolved towards sense making, learning, investigation, and social search. Unlike carefully authored news text and longer web context,...

Internet has found an increasing role in the politics, during the last decade. Today, terms like digital democracy, Internet elections, Internet advertisements (propaganda, social- political Web logging in the internet has become common terms.  Internet is getting replaced for the traditional media in politics. The interactive characteristic of this media has changed it to an unrivaled instrume...