Various company ecosystems are gradually changing because of social media and its nearly infinite capacities. As a result, growing companies worldwide using this innovation to streamline their processes. The results previous studies have not been consistent, even though the literature on ”SMEs’ use is still in infancy. During this, little observed data has presented ’ ’technology’s suitability ...

Managing digital assets not only involves internal distribution, accessibilities and efficiencies, but also wider protections involved when derivative works or repurposings result from external distributions. The inherent polysemy of media artefacts has consequences for the reuse of such artefacts in multimedia systems. The multiplicity of possible meanings of a single media artefact depends on...

Referring to a newly formed word that accommodates the usage of language at particular time, term neologism presents relatively recent or isolated term, word, phrase may undergo process entering everyday usage, but has not been fully accepted into language. They appear be strongly influenced by changes in society, especially culture and technology, recently rapid advancements internet-based com...

This paper critically reflects predictions that social and mobile media will revolutionize internal and external corporate processes and collaboration approaches by analyzing the current usage of social software and mobile media in various firm’s operational fields in German-speaking countries. It further aims at identifying some of factors that influence the implementation and application of s...

Compared with carefully edited prose, the language of social media is informal in the extreme. The application of NLP techniques in this context may require a better understanding of word usage within social media. In this paper, we compute a word embedding for a corpus of tweets, comparing it to a word embedding for Wikipedia. After learning a transformation of one vector space to the other, a...

Twitter for teaching: can social media be used to enhance the process of learning? Chris Evans Chris Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the Brunel Business School at Brunel University. His research interests include interactivity, Web 2.0 and social media, multimedia learning technology, and the adoption of innovative learning technologies. He is Chair of the annual eLearning 2.0 international confe...

Research on media effects has documented the media’s infl uence on beliefs and behavior while cross-cultural psychology has documented the effects of the language used in communication on identifi cation with the ingroup and the outgroup. Media usage in the outgroup language should, therefore, affect identifi cation patterns. This research investigates media effects in the acculturation process...

A cross sectional study was done to investigate the impact of media on the physical health of adolescents in Chennai. Media usage was found tobe highly influencing factor for the physical health of adolescents. The sample comprised of 448school students in the age range of 11-17. A semi structured questionnaire was used to get information. The results revealed that 90% of the participants eat w...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current use of social media and its benefits in teaching and learning as well as the perception of barriers by Sudanese university faculty members. The study surveyed a sample of 65 faculty members (educators and non-educators) through the use of a questionnaire. The results indicated that educators, both male and female, across academic ranks are...

The motivation for the usage of new media in education can differ. The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is involved in several projects such as “eCampus”, “Minerva”, “OFFSHORE” and “Bridge”. All of them aim at the development of innovative contributions to university education from various points of view, especially internationalization. Most of these projects form the basis for the usage of ...