We introduce our ongoing work in community networks and present a system that aggregates geographical community news and events information from local news and social media. Our goal is to present community information according to its content and to make it more visible to local residents, thereby increasing community awareness. We also present a data analysis of how local residents are connec...

This study looks at the use of LinkedIn in the United Arab Emirates. In–depth interviews with representatives of five organisations and five recruitment companies based in the UAE were conducted to evaluate the use of LinkedIn as a recruitment tool. The study showed that LinkedIn is a cost effective recruitment tool. It is efficient when looking for candidates at the senior level or for those w...

Although there is evidence that academically successful students are engaged with their studies, it has proved difficult to define student engagement clearly. Student engagement is commonly construed as having two dimensions, social and academic. The rapid adoption of social media and digital technologies has ensured increasing interest in using them for improving student engagement. This paper...

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In modern politics, parties and individual candidates must have an online presence and usually have dedicated social media coordinators. In this context, real time members classification and party characterization taking into account the dynamic nature of social media are essential to highlight the main differences between parties and to monitor their activities, influences, structures, content...

Organizations need to provide effective policies in aligning their social media use with organizational goals to realize the expected benefits of social media. However, while social media use has been studied, social media policy research is lacking. This study aims to examine impacts of social media policy and active use on value creation. Drawing on the Model of IT/Business Value, we assessed...

Social Media has gained remarkable attention. This is due to the affordability of accessing social network sites such as Twitter, Google+, Facebook and other social network sites. Organizations and people relying on the Social Media for information and opinion of other users on diverse subject matters Online Social Network (OSN) mining has been a active area of research in the current years. Th...

While various claims have been made about text in social media text being noisy, there has never been a systematic study to investigate just how linguistically noisy or otherwise it is over a range of social media sources. We explore this question empirically over popular social media text types, in the form of YouTube comments, Twitter posts, web user forum posts, blog posts and Wikipedia, whi...

Background: Challenge between parents and their children is a rapidly growing phenomenon in Iran. The communication challenge of adolescence with emphasis on social media in this study is a phenomenon that based on the changes and developments of adolescence, can affect the nature and quality of family relationships, question the authority of parents, and cause changes in regulations. The prese...