Web 2.0 and social media applications that allow people to share, co-create and rate online content are crucial new ways for conservation organizations to reach audiences and for concerned individuals and organizations to be (seen as) ‘green’. These dynamics are rapidly changing the politics and political economy of nature conservation. By developing the concept of ‘nature 2.0’ and building on ...

This paper describes a content-based analysis of Web-based travellers’ social media Websites. The proposed methodology is based on three levels of computer-mediated analysis, namely the lexical analysis, statistical analysis and semantic analysis. It is found that the use of systematic analysis of naturally occurring discussions in social media sites can lead to much stronger information about ...

In this paper, we introduce web based collaborative authoring technology using social media & tangible media. We suggest improved collaborative authoring method using various metadata information (e.g., mood, weather, time, location) of each uploaded media for the collaborative authoring. Our system also provides the recommendation function for referring and adding the related media from the pu...

Social media systems such as blogs, photo and link sharing sites, wikis and on-line forums are estimated to produce up to one third of new Web content. One thing that sets these ”Web 2.0” sites apart from traditional Web pages and resources is that they are intertwined with other forms of networked data. Their standard hyperlinks are enriched by social networks, comments, trackbacks, advertisem...

Consumer use of Web 2.0 and social media is well documented. However, the use of such technologies by SMEs has received relatively little attention and the literature has focused on the major social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In this paper the focus is on a different type of social media website, which is termed SME Social Media Platforms. These are websites designed specific...

With the explosion of social media in the last few years, web pages nowadays include different social network buttons where users can express if they support or recommend content. Those social buttons are very visual and their presentations, along with the counters, mark the importance of the social network and the interest on the content. In this paper, we analyze the presence of four types of...

Research has shown that a majority of children and young teenagers perceive computer science and computer science related careers to be boring, difficult, and anti-social in nature, despite the fact that this age group spends a large amount of time connected to the internet through social media, handheld devices and video games. Several approaches and technologies have been developed in attempt...

BACKGROUND Electronic cigarette awareness and use has been increasing rapidly. E-cigarette brands have utilized social networking sites to promote their products, as the growth of the e-cigarette industry has paralleled that of Web 2.0. These online platforms are cost-effective and have unique technological features and user demographics that can be attractive for selective marketing. The popul...