Social media platforms are extensively used in exchanging and sharing information user experience, thereby resulting massive outspread viewing of personal experiences many fields life. Thus, informative health-related videos on YouTube highly perceptible. Many users tend to procure medical treatments from social particularly when searching for chronic illness treatments. Sometimes, these source...

Common social tagging systems like Flickr, del.icio.us and others lately became very popular. The key benefits of these systems include that users get involved in the content creation process, can easily — without overhead – comment or annotate Web content, share resources with fellow users, and benefit from the comments / annotations of other users with improved retrieval support. With GroupMe...

Background: The publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals is a fairly complex and stepwise process that involves responding to referees’ comments. Little guidance is available in the biomedical literature on how to deal with such comments. Objective: The objective of this article is to provide guidance to notice writers on dealing with peer review comments in a way that maxim...

Many massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer mainly videobased lectures, which limits the opportunity for interactions and communications among students and instructors. Thus, the discussion forums of MOOC become indispensable in providing a platform for facilitating interactions and communications. In this research, discussion forum users who continually and actively participate in the forum...

Studies of online social influence have demonstrated that friends have important effects on many types of behavior in a wide variety of settings. However, we know much less about how influence works among relative strangers in digital public squares, despite important conversations happening in such spaces. We present the results of a study on large public Facebook Pages where we randomly used ...

Social media open up new possibilities for firms to exploit information from various external sources. Does this help become more innovative? Combining firm-level survey data with firms’ Facebook pages, we study the role that and users’ activities on play in innovation process. We find adoption of a page as well feedback users are positively significantly related product innovations. Our result...

With the increasingly intense competition in mobile applications, more and more attention has been paid to online comments. For the masses, comments have been viewed as reliable references to guide the choice of applications; for providers, they have been regarded as an important channel to learn expectations, demands and complaints of users. Therefore, comments analysis has become a hot topic ...

An asynchronous collaboration system was developed for Vice President AL Gore' s Open Meeting on the National Performance Review. The system supported a large online meeting with over 4000 participants and successfully achieved all its design goals. A theory for managing wide-area collaboration guided the implementation as it extended an earlier system developed to publish electronic documents....

For the past several years YouTube has been by far the largest user-driven online video provider. While many ofthese videos contain a significant number of user comments, little work has been done to date in extracting trends from these comments because of their low information consistency and quality. In this paper we perform sentiment analysis of the YouTube comments related to popular topics...