Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia [Hardcover]

This book presents the current state of the art in the field of e-publishing and social media, particularly in the Arabic context. The book discusses trends and challenges in the field of e-publishing, along with their implications for academic publishing, information services, e-learning and other areas where electronic publishing is essential. In particular, it addresses (1) Applications of Social Media in Libraries and Information Centers, (2) Use of Social Media and E-publishing in E-learning (3) Information Retrieval in Social Media, and (4) Information Security in Social Media.

Reaching your community via social media: Academic libraries and librarians using Facebook and Twitter for outreach.- Social networks impact on information consumption and usage: e-Marefa case.- Analysing how the prosumption of information in social media shapes Wikipedia.- The role of social networks in increasing the activity of e-learning.- Using IPython for teaching Web scraping.- The role of social network sites in connecting students with learning and academic activities: a case study.- An investigation of social media and e-publishing usage among Jordanian university students.- A defeasible description logic for representing bibliographic data.- Exploiting social media and tagging for social book search: simple query methods for retrieval optimization.- Online social networks security: threats, attacks and future directions.

Dr. Taha received her PhD degree from the University of Sheffield, UK in 2012 for a thesis investigating the social network dynamics of international students in UK. She also holds a Masters degree lc-