Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia [electronic resource] /
Taha, Nashrawan.editor.
Al-Sayyed, Rizik.editor.
Alqatawna, Ja'far.editor.
Rodan, Ali.editor.
This book presents the current state of the art in the field of e-publishing and social media, particularly in the Arabic context. The book discusses trends and challenges in the field of e-publishing, along with their implications for academic publishing, information services, e-learning and other areas where electronic publishing is essential. In particular, it addresses (1) Applications of Social Media in Libraries and Information Centers, (2) Use of Social Media and E-publishing in E-learning (3) Information Retrieval in Social Media, and (4) Information Security in Social Media.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Reaching your community via social media: Academic libraries and librarians using Facebook and Twitter for outreach -- Social networks' impact on information consumption and usage: e-Marefa case -- Analysing how the prosumption of information in social media shapes Wikipedia -- The role of social networks in increasing the activity of e-learning -- Using IPython for teaching Web scraping -- The role of social network sites in connecting students with learning and academic activities: a case study -- An investigation of social media and e-publishing usage among Jordanian university students -- A defeasible description logic for representing bibliographic data -- Exploiting social media and tagging for social book search: simple query methods for retrieval optimization -- Online social networks' security: threats, attacks and future directions.
This book presents the current state of the art in the field of e-publishing and social media, particularly in the Arabic context. The book discusses trends and challenges in the field of e-publishing, along with their implications for academic publishing, information services, e-learning and other areas where electronic publishing is essential. In particular, it addresses (1) Applications of Social Media in Libraries and Information Centers, (2) Use of Social Media and E-publishing in E-learning (3) Information Retrieval in Social Media, and (4) Information Security in Social Media.
Social media.
Application software.
Education-Data processing.
Educational technology.
Communication.
Sociology.
Library science.
Social Media.
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).
Computers and Education.
Educational Technology.
Media Research.
Library Science.