With the rapid advancements in technology, educators have increasingly explored utilization of social media platforms as educational tools. Among these platforms, Instagram has emerged a prominent choice due to its widespread popularity. This transformation seen being repurposed from mere entertainment tool an medium, particularly domain language instruction. English teachers, particular, embra...

With over one billion monthly users worldwide (Constine, 2018) and being embedded in the everyday lives of many young people, Instagram has become a common topic discussion both popular media scholarly debates. As women are amongst predominant active (WeAreSocial, 2019) demographic stereotypically associated with online self-representation (Burns, 2015), carries an underlying gendered political...

The call for this special issue on the Semantics of Microposts resulted from discussions initiated by the first Making Sense of Microposts workshop. The workshop was born out of the recognition of the invaluable knowledge contained in the vast, heterogeneous, distributed, continuously updating data store comprised of microposts – very small chunks of typically instantaneously published data, po...

Geographic search—where the user provides keywords and receives relevant locations depicted on a map—is a popular web application. Typically, such search is based on static geographic data. However, the abundant geotagged posts in microblogs such as Twitter and in social networks like Instagram, provide contemporary information that can be used to support geosocial search—geographic search base...

With the increasing popularity of online social networks (OSNs) and the ability to access and exchange sensitive user information, user privacy concerns become an important issue which have attracted the attention of researchers and policymakers. For example, deleted pictures or pictures in deleted posts may not be deleted from the OSN server immediately, and hence accessible to another unautho...

Social media and mobile technologies have revolutionised communication and particular attention has been given to user-generated content (UGC) and the formation of online communities; however, little attention has been given to tourist events entirely generated by users through social media. This paper aims to define and characterise the phenomenon of tourism user-generated events (UGEs) throug...