Employer branding by means of Social Network Sites (SNS) has been inspired by two recent developments: the increase of usergenerated content with the spread of Web 2.0 and the lack of specialized human resources. However, this phenomenon is yet not very well understood: Which companies use SNS for employer branding? What are the motivations behind it and what are the necessary success strategie...

The study, based on the Web of Science, analyses 758 articles published from 2000 to 2014. Our analysis includes the publications’ output, authorship, institutional and country patterns of production, citations and collaboration. A Social Network Analysis was conducted to identify primary groups of researchers and institutions and the collaboration between countries.

The Social Semantic Web is the data space on the Web where human produced information are enriched and modeled using Semantic Web standards. This vision is enabled by the convergence between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 but still, it’s far from be put into practice. Moreover, this miss causes drawbacks such as data redundancies and overhead in the development of social applications. In this paper we dis...

With the arrival of the big data era, it has become a spot for research to evaluate currency of network information so far. This paper proposes a model of network information currency evaluation based on Web semantic extraction method taking Web news as object of study. The author elaborates the method, technology and main functions on every layer of the model in detail, which have been used or...

Social networks on the web are growing dramatically in size and number. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, and others has drawn in hundreds of millions of users, and the attention of scientists and the media. The public accessibility of web-based social networks offers great promise for researchers interested in studying the behavior of users and how to integrate social inform...

— Knowledge sharing among individuals has changed deeply with the advent of social networks in the environment of Web 2.0. Every user has the possibility of publishing what he or she deems of interest for their audience, regardless of the origin or authorship of the piece of knowledge. It is generally accepted that as the user is sharing a link to a document or video, for example, without getti...