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Social media (media społecznościowe) stwarzają możliwości szybkiej i taniej publikacji informacji, a więc także doniesień naukowych. Narzędzie to w tym zakresie stanowi nową formę komunikacji między naukowcami, służąc do popularyzacji ich osiągnięć, wyników badań i sukcesów instytucji naukowych. Ludzie nauki coraz częściej i chętniej wykorzystują social media nie tylko w celach promocyjnych. Profile...
Opioid (e.g., heroin and morphine) addiction has become one of the largest and deadliest epidemics in the United States. To combat such deadly epidemic, there is an urgent need for novel tools and methodologies to gain new insights into the behavioral processes of opioid addiction and treatment. In this paper, we design and develop an intelligent system named iOPU to automate the detection of opioid...
In recent years, the huge amount of data that has emerged in the world as a result of a very rapid increase in digital data has brought about the storage, processing and analysis of data into business intelligence solutions. One of the biggest sources of this large-scale data that has emerged and continues to grow is the data produced from social media tools. The average daily amount generated by...
In this paper we present our exploratory findings related to extracting knowledge and experiences from a community of senior tourists. By using tools of qualitative analysis as well as review of literature, we managed to verify a set of hypotheses related to the content created by senior tourists when participating in on-line communities. We also produced a codebook, representing various themes one...
With the continuing development and innovation of modern information and communication technologies in recent years, social media platforms, such as WeChat and Microblog, have been witnessed to play a key role in employee management for enterprises or organizations, enabling individual or groups of employees to express their viewpoints or report their works in a real-time fashion. The resulting Cyber-workspace...
In February 2016, World Health Organization declared the Zika outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. With developing evidence it can cause birth defects, and the Summer Olympics coming up in the worst affected country, Brazil, the virus caught fire on social media. In this work, we use Zika as a case study in building a tool for tracking the misinformation around health concerns...
In recent years, the use of Internet has become one of the daily activates in our life. Social networks constitute a major component of the Web and made a revolution. It includes social networks, blogs, forum discussions and micro-blogs. Users of social media generate a huge amount of comments on a daily basis. Due to this revolution, most researches are now focusing on extracting meaningful information...
Getting the daily news from social media has nowadays become a common practice among people. Unreliable sources of information expose people to a dose of hoaxes, rumours, conspiracy theories and misleading news. Mixing both reliable and unreliable information on social media has made the truth to be hardly determined. Academic research indicates an increasing reliance of online users on social media...
A considerable body of researches indicate a high trend in researching social media. Accordingly, the study aimed to explore the relationship between social media relationships and academic self-concept through a correlation analysis. The data was collected from the 246 participants in secondary school who aged 12-16 years old from Shanghai, China. Results showed that all measures constructed for...
The development of mobile devices as well as social media platforms recently lead to the necessity of monitoring the latter during crisis and emergency situations. Paradoxically, the huge amount of information available through these new sources may lead to information gaps, within the Public Safety Organization operators' awareness. We describe some specific types of information gaps due first to...
As a business paradigm, social commerce (s-commerce) has brought about a new stage of innovation, and by extension, has transmuted the power from seller to buyer. S-commerce is an integration of transactional and social activities, in which, individuals may spread word of mouth (WOM) about their shopping experiences, knowledge, as well as providing information about product and services to their friends...
The paper analyses the risks of a potential “valley of death” in development of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for refugees’ social integration. Today’s refugee crisis is distinct from previous ones because of remarkable refugees’ reliance on technology. Therefore, not surprisingly, the effective employment of ICT is often mentioned in conjunction with refugees’ integration as a mean...
Social Media is a subject that is being very discussed in the present. The increasing availability of internet and the growth of Social Media platforms drove organizations attention to Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. One of the most popular Social Media Platform is Facebook. In this Social Media Platform users/consumers can express their feelings with comments or with emotion buttons. With...
The following article outlines the online activity and social presence of chosen world leading fast food restaurants: McDonald's, KFC, Burger King and Pizza Hut. The analysis was done to examine how these companies use social media as a mean of engaging with their customers and how successful they are in doing so. The results show social media create meaningful insights and benchmarks for businesses...
The innovation applied to business management has become a key element in the valuation of organizations in the global society environment, as well as their own survival in the markets in which they interact and in which it plays an essential role in the relationship of those with their audiences, while transcending the classic approach to the product to cover other areas such as procedures, communication,...
Introduction: Analyzing social media, insights about how products or services are perceived and used by customers can bring useful information. The aim of this study was to develop and validate 4 self-administered questionnaires to be used in the assessment of how consumers, healthcare professionals, medical students and healthcare providers use social media to retrieve health-related information...
Social media became popular than ever as people are willing to share their emotions and opinions or to participate in social networking. Accordingly, the understanding of social media usage became important. The sentiment analysis is emerged as one of useful methods to analyze emotional stats expressed in textual data including social media data. However, this method still presents some limitations,...
Political parties have not been indifferent to the opportunities offered by the internet-based technologies. Today, political parties use the social media tools to communicate, organize and mobilize. However, few studies focus on the use of social media by the political parties and these studies analyze the use of social media in election campaigns. Therefore, in the relevant literature, there is...
The advent of social media in education has the potential to foster collaborative learning. Exploring students' interactions on the social media tools is an important research direction, which could bring an insight into the collaborative learning process. Therefore, our aim is to propose a conceptual framework for knowledge extraction and visualization from a social media-based learning environment...
The "cat-and-mouse" game of Internet censorship and circumvention cannot be won by capable technology alone. Instead, that technology must be available, comprehensible, and trustworthy to users. However, the field largely focuses only on censors and the technical means to circumvent them. Thailand, with its superlatives in Internet use and government information controls, offers a rich case...
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