Handbook of Research on Interactive Information Quality in Expanding Social Network Communications

Social networking sites (SNSs) not only allow users to share information such as uploaded videos or pictures, but also to communicate with each other about this content, to chat with other users and to post messages to small or large audiences. SNSs can also be beneficial tools for users to gain social capital (Lin, 2015). The network society is a social structure based on networks operated by information and communication technologies (ICT). ICT has rendered international boundaries irrelevant since many modern activities cut across international frontiers. We now live in a boundless world that is becoming a smaller place, due to the recent developments in ICT. The basic unit of the network society has become the individual who is linked by networks. This results from simultaneous scale extension (nationalization and internationalization) and scale reduction (smaller living and working environments) (Scott & Car-rington, 2011). Daily living and working environments are getting smaller and more heterogeneous. The scope of the Book REvIEw