The Social Library

2018 ◽  
pp. 697-712
Author(s):  
Ganiyu Ojo Adigun ◽  
Adebayo Muritala Adegbore ◽  
Halimah Odunayo Amuda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Reference Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reference Librarians ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Social Networking Tools

This chapter discusses how to transform libraries into a social library by integrating social networking tools into library reference services. Social networking/media tools enable Reference Librarians to communicate, network, and share documents with many library clients regardless of location, and at little or no expense. Reference Librarians can build relationships and keep up to date with library clients. Social networking media, however, open up new forms of collaboration that are not so bounded by time, place, and access to funding. This chapter looks at the following: needs and purpose of reference services, social responsibility of library, social networking in library reference services, challenges and prospects of integrating social networking into reference services, social media platforms, and ways to improve the use of social networking in library reference services in the future.

The Social Library

2015 ◽  
pp. 140-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganiyu Ojo Adigun ◽  
Adebayo Muritala Adegbore ◽  
Halimah Odunayo Amuda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Reference Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reference Librarians ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Social Networking Tools

This chapter discusses how to transform libraries into a social library by integrating social networking tools into library reference services. Social networking/media tools enable Reference Librarians to communicate, network, and share documents with many library clients regardless of location, and at little or no expense. Reference Librarians can build relationships and keep up to date with library clients. Social networking media, however, open up new forms of collaboration that are not so bounded by time, place, and access to funding. This chapter looks at the following: needs and purpose of reference services, social responsibility of library, social networking in library reference services, challenges and prospects of integrating social networking into reference services, social media platforms, and ways to improve the use of social networking in library reference services in the future.

Hyperreality of #BlackLivesMatter Movement on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-303
Author(s):  
Ghozian Aulia Pradhana ◽  
◽  
Syaifa Tania ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
African American ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Social Media Platforms

This study aims to reveal how hyperreality is reflected in using the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on social media. The death of an African-American, George Floyd, that involved white police, has sparked outrage and demonstrations in many U.S. states. Issues pertaining to racism sparked in relation to the event, and many people protested demanding justice. The demand for justice then went into a wave of massive global protests both in offline and online realities—the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag was widely used on social media when protests were held. The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag even became a trending topic on several social media platforms, as if everyone was concerned about the issue and aiming for the same purpose. However, we might find several posts that neither reflected nor were related to the case. Some social media users put the hashtag even though their content substance was not related. This phenomenon then led to a condition of hyperreality in questioning reality from a simulation of reality. The method used in this study is content analysis which measures the sentiment of comments on Twitter and Instagram. The study found that social networking sites mobilised online movements even though they were not directly related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. On the other hand, hashtag activism reduced the true meaning of the social movement. Therefore, the hyperreality in #BlackLivesMatter could not be seen any longer as a form of massive protests demanding justice and ending violence, but merely to gain more digital presence on social media. Keywords: Black lives matter, movement, social media, hyperreality, hashtag activism.

Paradigm Shift for the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-201
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Way

Through case studies of incidents around the world where the social media platforms have been used and abused for ulterior purposes, Chapter 6 highlights the lessons that can be learned. For good or for ill, the author elaborates on the way social media has been used as an arbiter to inflict various forms of political influence and how we may have become desensitized due to the popularity of the social media platforms themselves. A searching view is provided that there is now a propensity by foreign states to use social media to influence the user base of sovereign countries during key political events. This type of activity now justifies a paradigm shift in relation to our perception and utilization of computerized devices for the future.

Potential Power and Problems in Sentiment Mining of Social Media

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wang ◽  
Qiannong Gu ◽  
Gang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Relative Degree ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sentiment Mining ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Infinite Array

Sentiment mining research has experienced an explosive growth in awareness and demand as Web 2.0 technologies have paved the way for a surge of social media platforms that have significantly and rapidly increased the availability of user generated opinioned text. The power of opinions has long been known and is beginning to be tapped to a fuller potential through sentiment mining research. Social media sites have become a paradise for sentiment providing endless streams of opinioned text encompassing an infinite array of topics. With the potential to predict outcomes with a relative degree of accuracy, sentiment mining has become a hot topic not only to researchers, but to corporations as well. As the social media user base continues to expand and as researchers compete to fulfill the demand for sentiment analytic tools to sift through the endless stream of user generated content, the growth of sentiment mining of social media will continue well into the future with an emphasis on improved reliability, accuracy, and automation.

Social Media in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 255-277
Author(s):  
Enilda Romero-Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Social Networking Tools

This chapter discusses the current use of social media for professional growth, focusing on a case study that uses social media to increase instructional design graduate students' awareness and participation in professional growth opportunities. Social media metrics were analyzed from three social networking tools (Facebook Page, Twitter account, and/or Google+ community) that are used to communicate with the students in the program. Additional data was collected using an electronic questionnaire with open and closed-ended questions. The results show that graduate students' participation in the social media initiatives for professional growth provided awareness of self-directed, voluntary, and informal learning opportunities; engaged students in conversations with their peers and the instructors; and allowed the learners to expand their learning experience outside the traditional classroom format.

Social Media in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 553-575
Author(s):  
Enilda Romero-Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Social Networking Tools

This chapter discusses the current use of social media for professional growth, focusing on a case study that uses social media to increase instructional design graduate students' awareness and participation in professional growth opportunities. Social media metrics were analyzed from three social networking tools (Facebook Page, Twitter account, and/or Google+ community) that are used to communicate with the students in the program. Additional data was collected using an electronic questionnaire with open and closed-ended questions. The results show that graduate students' participation in the social media initiatives for professional growth provided awareness of self-directed, voluntary, and informal learning opportunities; engaged students in conversations with their peers and the instructors; and allowed the learners to expand their learning experience outside the traditional classroom format.

Clubhouse Experience

2022 ◽  
pp. 244-264
Author(s):  
Ipek Deveci Kocakoç ◽  
Pınar Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Supervised Learning ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Learning By Using

Clubhouse is an invitation-only social networking application that differs from the usual social media platforms in that it is “audio only.” In this chapter, the sentiments in the social media messages about Clubhouse in the classic SMPs are examined by supervised learning (by using Hugging Face Transformer Library), and the user feelings are analyzed. Because Turkey is in the first ranks among European countries in terms of both the number of social media users and the number of messages, the analysis is conducted using the Turkish users. Mentions of Clubhouse have begun on Twitter and Sourtimes platforms in Turkey in early 2021. In this study, the aim is to demonstrate how Clubhouse, a new and different SMP, is evaluated by Twitter and Sourtimes users and to reveal user thoughts about this SMP along the timeline by using sentiment analysis.

Social Media for Promoting Grassroots Political Movements and Social Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 1249-1278
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Social Networking Tools

In light of many recent Internet-led revolutions, the Internet and its tools of social media have been heralded as instrumental in facilitating the uprisings. This chapter provides a close examination of the social media role in grass roots political and social change movements. The chapter discusses the ways activists have used social media tools for organizing and generating awareness of political mobilization and the characteristics of social networking that can be harnessed in a particular cultural and historical context to achieve collective political actions. The chapter also discusses long-established theories of communication to explain how social networking tools became appealing to the activists in these Internet-led movements. The chapter will look at various Internet-led political movements around the globe to demonstrate the enormous potential of social networking tools to facilitate and expedite political mobilization.

Problems and Prospects of Social Media Recruitment

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-103
Author(s):  
Teena Saharan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Right ◽  
Talent Acquisition ◽  
The Way

Over the last few years, the way of talent acquisition has evolved in different forms from attracting personal applications to getting connected with talented candidates through social networking sites. Recruitment through social networking platforms is putting a significant contribution in analyzing and hiring the right and best talent for an opening, and companies can't just ignore the potential and influence of these media platforms. These social platforms connect companies to potential hires and increase visibility by getting them connected to a huge audience. The future of recruitment lies in social media and companies cannot just ignore their presence due to prevailing challenges. It is important to find out viable solutions to the challenges organizations facing while using social media platforms in talent acquisition. The focus of this chapter is to capture strategies mitigating these challenges and suggest probable and profitable suggestions to companies for better utilization of social networking sites for effective recruitment.

scholarly journals Relevance of Big Data Technologies to and users in Context of Social Networking Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 4182-4186
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Big Data Storage

Unremitting generation of data by various data analytics platforms, ubiquitous ,edge nodes and social networks in the concurrent scenario has shaped the exceptional amount of data in volume, velocity, veracity, variety and value. Exceptional data have made traditional information technology and method unfeasible to cope up amid. This exceptional data has been termed as Big Data. Social media is one of the most important sources of Big Data. social media is a constituent of Big Data. Besides Big Data plays a vital role in moving forward the Social Networking Applications to innovate and enhance the experience of users. Various technologies are factored for Big Data storage, processing and analysis in the context of social networking. This paper investigates these technologies which are being used by social networking applications with their relevance to the end users. The research article provides a relevance computation of various social media platforms. It further summarizes a visualization of the use of the platforms in their contribution to the big data.

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