In this thesis we provide a framework for a micro-blogging social network in an unstructured peer-topeer network. At a user level, a micro-blogging service provides (i) a means for publishing a microblog, (ii) a means to follow a micro-blogger, and (iii) a means to search for micro-blogs containing keywords. Since unstructured peer-to-peer networks do not bind either the data or the location of...

Social media and micro-blogging platforms have been successful for communication and information exchange enjoying vast number of user participation. Given their millions of users, it is natural that there is a lot of interest for marketing and advertising on these platforms as attested by the introduced advertising platforms on Twitter and Facebook. In this paper, inspired by micro-blogging ad...

Weblogs (or blogs), as a form of communication on the Internet, have recently risen in prominence but may be poorly understood by both faculty and students. This article explains how blogs differ from other online communication tools and how political science faculty canmake use of blogs in their classes. The focus is on using blogs as part of class assignments to reinforce important skills, in...

During the 2003–2004 U.S. presidential election the professional press discovered blogs. While they were around for some time, given the role they were playing in the election, especially around the candidacy of Democrat Howard Dean, journalists marveled at these new amateur voices while, more darkly, fearing that they undermined both the authority and resource base of professionals. For exampl...

Virtual reality in tourism (virtual tourism) and blogging are highly valuable for visitors travellers since they allow them to undertake a scouting trip before embarking on their adventure, avoid being hassled crowds while learning more about the location visiting or have already been. This paper provides an overview analysis of relationship between virtual tourism, blogging, making image touri...

In today’s global business ecosystem, enabled by advanced technologies in personalization and customization, an individual or business team has more leverage than ever before regarding the choice of communication media and communication tool. Moreover, an individual’s personal attributes and preferences should be taken into consideration. As one of the new communication technologies, micro-blog...

This study examined the degree to which the pregnant or postpartum women, in the process of quitting smoking, felt that writing in a blog about their smoking cessation journeys helped them in their efforts to become or remain smoke free. Five women who blogged for Prevention of Gestational and Neonatal Exposure to Tobacco Smoke (a website designed to help pregnant and postpartum women quit smok...