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Nashrawan Taha · Rizik Al-Sayyed Ja’far Alqatawna · Ali Rodan Editors Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia Nashrawan Taha Rizik Al-Sayyed (cid:129) ’ Ja far Alqatawna Ali Rodan (cid:129) Editors Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia 123 Editors Nashrawan Taha Ja’far Alqatawna Department ofLibrary andInformation Department ofBusiness Information Science, EducationalScience Faculty Technology,KingAbdullah IISchool of TheUniversity of Jordan InformationTechnology (KASIT) Amman TheUniversity of Jordan Jordan Amman Jordan Rizik Al-Sayyed Department ofBusiness Information Ali Rodan Technology,KingAbdullah IISchool of Department ofBusiness Information InformationTechnology (KASIT) Technology,KingAbdullah IISchool of TheUniversity of Jordan InformationTechnology (KASIT) Amman TheUniversity of Jordan Jordan Amman Jordan ISBN978-3-319-55353-5 ISBN978-3-319-55354-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55354-2 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017934872 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingAG2017 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Preface The popularity of various types of Online Social Networks (OSNs) is increasing dramatically. Nowadays, platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube are used in business, education, and social activities by billions of users around the world. In fact, several factors contributed to this ever-increasing pop- ularity.Obviously,manyoftheseplatformsmimicrealsocialrelationshipsandgive their users the opportunities to communicate over a very convenient online med- ium, meeting new friends, and sharing a large amount of information. Moreover, OSNs empowered online users with the capability for instant publishing of their own generated multimedia content. In the era of Online Social Media (OSM), publishing for the ‘inter’ world has become one click away. With less restriction, filtering or censorship, publishing has become very tempting for millions of users. In the context of libraries, social media has an impact on shaping library services and resources. E-publishing is one of the library aspects that can be affected by social media, where the library e-content can be augmented and better shared via social media. Themainaimofthisbookistopresentthecurrentstateoftheartinthefieldof e-publishing and social media. The book discusses a relatively new research topic that will be useful to researchers in the area of social media and e-publishing. The book mainly discusses the role of social media in shaping e-publishing. It includes four main parts; namely, Social Media in Libraries and Information Centers,SocialMediaande-publishingUsagesine-learning,InformationRetrieval in Social Media, and Information Security in Social Media. The first part discusses Social Media in Libraries and Information Centers, where three case studies are presented. The first chapter of this part reports the experienceandrecommendationsoftwolibrariansinalargeU.S.universitylibrary for using social media as a library communication tool, especially Facebook and Twitter.Theresearchersthenmakerecommendationsforbranchlibraryandsubject librarian social media usage. The second chapter discusses a second case study about the impact of social networks on information consumption and usage. The researchershavestudiedabibliographicdatabase(e-Marefa)toexaminehowsocial media can improve the value of an academic article. The research showed that an v vi Preface article can be ‘virally’ downloaded and read when shared via social media. The thirdchapterexplainstherolethatsocialmediahadonWikipediawhereanalysisof howthepresumptionofinformationinsocialmediashapedWikipediaisexplored. The second part presents new researches in the field of Social Media and e-Publishing Usages in e-Learning. The major ideas presented in these research study chapters include how Social Network Sites (SNS) increase the activity and efficiency of e-learning by assessing the risks and advantages of using these net- works,howSNSuseIPythontosupporteducatorsinteachingthefundamentalsof webscraping,howSNSareusedtosupportthelearningandacademicactivitiesin universitiesandhowSNSshapedthee-contentforthepresentgeneration,andhow SNS as used more as means of socialization than as a learning medium so that sharing and exchanging information and e-publishing have become the norm; examples include blogs, e-books, e-journals, online newspapers, while digital library usage was relegated to a minor position. The third part discusses Information Retrieval in Social Media. Three chapters are presented to discuss the investigating and designing of new Information Retrieval (IR) models in the context of social media. The first chapter develops a defeasible description logic system that can represent a flexible publication ontol- ogy which can support intelligent queries. In the second chapter, authors discuss a retrieval method that can meet users’ requests and handle their diversity by investigating several techniques to support users in searching and navigating the full texts of digitized books and complementary social media in order to enhance the user book search experience. They employed the INEX SBS track which uses professional metadata and user generated metadata (social media content) to enhance the retrieval process for books. The fourth part of the book covers Security and Privacy in the Era of Social Media.Ithasonechapterwhichdiscussessome ofthecurrentresearchinthe field of online social networks security. It presents different attacks that are especially relevant to online social networks. Moreover, it highlights some methods and precautions available to tackle these attacks. A discussion of the trade-off between services and security is also given in the light of stakeholders’ rights and respon- sibilities. Accordingly, authors of the chapters argue that there is a need for sug- gesting models and technical solutions in the light of the emerging threats highlighted in the chapter. Possible future research directions related to privacy, Sybil attacks, social engineering, spam, malware, and botnet attacks are discussed. We would like to finally convey our gratitude to the authors of the accepted chapters and the reviewers of these chapters. We are grateful to the University of JordanLibraryfortheirhelpandsupport.WearealsogratefultoSpringerfortheir support in publishing this book. Amman, Jordan Nashrawan Taha December 2016 Rizik Al-Sayyed Ja’far Alqatawna Ali Rodan Contents Part I Social Media in Libraries and Information Centers Reaching Your Community via Social Media: Academic Libraries and Librarians Using Facebook and Twitter for Outreach.. ..... .... 3 Deborah J. Margolis and Emily A. Treptow Social Networks Impact on Information Consumption and Usage: e-Marefa Case. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 11 Ezz Hattab Analysing How the Prosumption of Information in Social Media Shapes Wikipedia .. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 21 Heena Siddiqi and Jawed Siddiqi Part II Social Media and E-Learning The Role of Social Networks in Increasing the Activity of E-learning.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 35 Thabit Hassan Thabit and Yaser Abdul Aali Jasim Using IPython for Teaching Web Scraping... .... .... .... ..... .... 47 Ali Hadi and Malek Al-Zewairi The Role of Social Network Sites in Connecting Students with Learning and Academic Activities: A Case Study . .... ..... .... 55 Dina Tbaishat An Investigation of Social Media and E-Publishing Usage Among Jordanian University Students .. .... .... .... .... ..... .... 75 Riyad F. Hussein vii viii Contents Part III Information Retrieval in Social Media A Defeasible Description Logic for Representing Bibliographic Data ..... 95 Ala’aAl-Shaikh,HebatallahKhattab,AsmaMoubaiddinandNadimObeid Exploiting Social Media and Tagging for Social Book Search: Simple Query Methods for Retrieval Optimization .... .... ..... .... 107 Faten Hamad and Bashar Al-Shboul Part IV Security and Privacy in the Era of Social Media Online Social Networks Security: Threats, Attacks, and Future Directions... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 121 Ja’far Alqatawna, Alia Madain, Ala’ M. Al-Zoubi and Rizik Al-Sayyed Part I Social Media in Libraries and Information Centers Social media usehasbecomean integral part ofeveryone’sdailylife. Thenumber of digital resources in these platforms is exponentially increasing, where user are generating, modifying, and sharing this content. The greater reliance on social media has changed the role of libraries and information centers as traditional repositories of information. Social media can effectively be integrated into library servicestooutreachthelearningcommunity.Infact,manylibrariesandinformation centers have already embraced social media tools to enhance their services and engagetheirusers.Socialmediacanbebeneficialinpromotinglibraryservicesand in connecting libraries with their users regardless of location. Socialmediauseischangingtheroleoflibrariesandinformationprofessionals. Librarianshavenowacrucialroleindirectingthelearningcommunitythroughthe complex digital information environment. With the ‘born digital’ content, created and shared via social media, e-publishing became an important topic that needs to be researched and explored. Social media can help libraries share their e-content, such as e-books, e-theses, and e-periodicals with a wider community. Thispartpresentsthreecasestudychaptersofusingsocialmediainlibrariesand information centers. The first chapter discusses a case study of a large U.S. uni- versity library, where the experiences and recommendations of two librarians for usingsocialmediaasalibrarycommunicationtoolwereexplored.Theresearchers haveusedpersonalobservationinFacebookandTwittertomakerecommendations for branch library and subject librarian social media usage. The second chapter outlines another case study about the impact of social net- works on information consumption and usage. The researchers have studied a bibliographic database (e-Marefa) to examine how social media can improve the value of an academic article ‘virally’, where their research showed a significant increase of the number of times that an article can be downloaded and read when shared via social media. 2 PartI:SocialMediainLibrariesandInformationCenters ThethirdchapterhasstudiedtherolethatsocialmediahadonWikipediawhere the authors have conducted an analysis of how the presumption of information in social media shaped Wikipedia. Nashrawan Taha
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