When examining young people’s experience of social media, it is useful to extend the notion of social media to appreciate not only the antecedents of some current youth online practices, but also the development of research concepts and frameworks related to this topic. For many researchers and media commentators the term social media refers principally, and narrowly, to the more communication ...

social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...

This chapter reviews psychological research on personal Web sites, on their owners and on the effects personal Web sites may have on visitors. Personal Web sites were conceptualized as media for self-presentation and identity construction. Converging evidence is reported with regard to the elements found on Web sites and to the demographics, personality characteristics, intentions and self-pres...

Social media sites can act as a rich source of large amounts of data by letting anyone easily create content on the Web. The SIOC ontology and tools developed for it allow us to express this information as interlinked RDF data. This paper describes approaches for making this Social Web information an integral part of the Web of Linked Data.

Social Media (SM) is websites increasingly popular and built to allow people to express themselves and to interact socially with others. Most SMT are dominated by youth particularly College students. The proliferation of popular social media tools, which can accessed from any communication devices has become pervasive in the lives of today’s student life. Connecting traditional education to soc...

This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students’ interactions when using online social media as a learning environment. It makes links to chaos and complexity theories and to fractal patterns as it reports on a part of the first author’s action research study, conducted while she was a teacher working in an Australian public h...

Due to the explosive growth of Web 2.0 technologies and related services/applications in recent years, we have witnessed the convergence of the technological networks that connect computers on the Internet and the social networks that have linked humans for millennia. The growing popularity of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, PatientsLike...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the applications of using Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools to “bring” the academic library to its students and implications for the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library, Fitchburg State University. A review of the literature finds varying levels of Web 2.0 implementations as well as various uses for the different tools in academic libraries. A furt...

Since the advent of the Internet, and in particular the development of the interactive version of the web, Web 2.0, use of Social Media has developed into a major strategy for businesses and organizations such as the IFCC to use for the purposes of Public Relations and Education. The early Internet 'Web 1.0' was a largely static environment which did not allow interaction between organizations ...

In the United States, the beauty industry reached $62.46 billion in sales in 2016 (“Revenue,” 2015). A large portion of the beauty industry sales is anti-aging beauty products (“Anti-aging Products,” 2009). There are approximately 48 million middle-aged women between 30 and 55 years of age (Census.Gov, 2011). The most used social media site for middle-aged women is Facebook, which is currently ...