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It is acknowledged that student blogs in computer science courses can strengthen student communication skills, but it is rarely reported that these blogs can also provide a window into their authors' multiple facets. Computer science (CS) students are ...

While blogging has become a popular social tool, less work has focused on how blogging can be used as a tool for researchers to disseminate research findings to the public. In this experience report, we share how we created a research blog to ...

Within the framework of this article, we developed an approximate algorithm for the mediaesthetic analysis of video on YouTube. We also have developed a classification of tools to examine the aesthetic impact of video clips on Youtube. This ...

There has been a surge in opinion-sharing in the public domain. Some opinions greatly influence our decisions, e.g., the choice of purchase. Malicious parties or individuals exploit social media by generating fake reviews for opinion manipulation. This ...

Motherhood is often a source of guilt, conflict, and ambivalence, and any communication about motherhood must be governed by an ethic of care and principles that take into account the fraught nature of such an identity. Social media provide individuals ...

Ageism is a pervasive, and often invisible, form of discrimination. Though it can affect people of all ages, older adults in particular face age-related stereotypes and bias in their everyday lives. In this paper, we describe the ways in which older ...

While the majority of older adults are now active online, they are often perceived as passive consumers of online information rather than active creators of content. As a counter to this view, we examine the practices of older adult bloggers (N=20) ...

On social media, are Westerners more likely to use the first-person pronoun "I" and Easterners more likely to use the collective "we"? Do users from high-context cultures use more visual expression than their counterparts in low-context cultures? These ...

This paper examines how a new actor category may emerge in a field of discourse through the new media of the Internet. Existing literatures on professional and organizational identity have shown the importance of identity claims and of the tensions ...

Blogging and Facebook have gained increasing recognition as tools to support online information sharing and management. This study examined if, and in which aspects, blogs and Facebook scaffold and/or consolidate student users' knowledge capture, ...

Promoting blog content is a social activity; it is a means of communicating one student's appreciation of another student's work. This paper explores the feasibility of using student promotions of content, in a blogosphere, to identify quality content, ...

Sociological Images is a website aimed at a broad public audience that encourages readers to develop and apply a sociological imagination. The site includes short, accessible posts published daily. Each includes one or more images and accompanying ...

The Apple iPad has the potential to change how faculty teach using technology. With the small size and touch screen, iPads can be more flexible in a classroom setting than a laptop. With the plethora of apps (short for applications) being created for ...

Social network captivate huge number of users for learning, advertising, entertaining etc. Blogging is one of the key roles in social environment. Blogs are available in plenty for entertainment, business and educating the blog readers in the World Wide ...

A paradigmatic quality of interactive interfaces is that they allow users to express themselves, thereby converting message receivers into communication sources. We define this quality as Source Interactivity [26, 29], and test its effects on user ...

Social media technologies provide unique channels to empower youth to become more civically engaged. Puget Sound Off is an online blogging and networking site focused on helping youth connect, collaborate, and take action around local community issues. ...

This article investigates the usage of blogs in electoral campaigns in Sweden, a country characterized by strong political parties and a party centered form of representative democracy. The central argument is that blogs are utilized in different ways ...

Smart spaces provide a shared view of dynamic resources and context-aware services within a distributed application. There is, however, no standard scheme for integration of several independent applications. In this paper we analyze two particular smart ...

Learning is an important part of the software development process. There are many advantages for developers willing to learn: increased internal and external quality of the produced software, and a reduced learning curve as beginners become high-skilled ...

A significant amount of research has focused on blogs, bloggers, and blogging. However, relatively little work has examined blog readers, their interactions with bloggers, or their impact on blogging. This paper presents a qualitative study focusing ...