This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of internet, and more specifically, the power of social media in the political and social discourse. The volume collects original research on the use of social media in political campaigns, electoral marketing, riots and social revolutions, presenting a range of case studies from across the world as well as theoretical and methodological contributions. Examples that explore the use of social media in electoral campaigns include, for instance, studies on the use of Facebook in the 2012 US presidential campaign and in the 2011 Turkish general elections. The final section of the book debates the usage of Twitter and of other Web 2.0 tools in mobilizing people for riots and revolutions, presenting and analysing recent events in Istanbul and Egypt, among others.
Social Media and the New Academic Environment: Pedagogical Challenges provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest research on social media the challenges in the educational context. This book is essential for professionals aiming to improve their understanding of social media at different levels of education as well as researchers in the fields of e-learning, educational science and information and communication sciences and much more.
“Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching in Web 2.0” by Monica Patrut & Bogdan Patrut (eds.), IGI Global, 2013, ISBN 978-1466629707. This book is indexed by Thomson-Reuters.
In today’s businesses and society, social media continues to play a vital role in the transformation of communication into an interactive dialogue. The success of social media has encouraged the integration of these aspects in higher education teaching practices. Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching in Web 2.0 provides research on the pedagogical challenges faced in recent years in order to improve the understanding of social media in the educational systems. It will highlight the levels of education, ranging from learning centered on the student to the collaboration between academic networks and organizations. This reference source is essential for practitioners, researchers, and students interested in gaining insight into educational institutions, as well as into academic communities and environments.
“Web 2.0 in Education and Politics” by Monica Patrut & Bogdan Patrut (eds.), LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-3847324256. This book provides the latest research on social media use in education and politics. The book is essential for researchers in the fields of e-learning, educational science, ICT, and communication studies. Some chapters are about Moodle or Twitter in classes. Other topics are: Facebook in electoral campaign, efficient cooperation-procedures in web-based training, social media in teacher education, computer mediated social interactions in the educational groups, social media impact on learning. The problems of ACTA, SOPA and PIPA are also discussed.
The book is structured into two sections. The first section starts by presenting some issues of the new education (e.g. demographic education, education for human rights in former communist countries, etc.). Then, there are several chapters dealing with the ethical problems of the teaching process and concerning the education of children with special needs. The authors also present some theoretical ideas and practical samples regarding the IT&C technologies used in education, with a special emphasis on the new Web 2.0 services that are known as social media. The second part emphasizes some interesting problems in social work and in organizational and political communication. The first chapter presents the appreciative supervision and case management in social work, the second is a case study on the semiotics of the discourse of a NGO, and the third tries to decide whether the political blog, during online electoral campaigns, is a way to improve the functioning of democracy.
The handbook is intended for undergraduate and graduate (MSc, PhD) students and researchers working in computer science and applied mathematics. It presents recent interesting topics of computer science, which can be applied in other fervent research topics from other domains, such as mathematics, economics, physics, biology, chemistry, medical and social sciences.
Dies ist eine Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Artikel mit Bezug auf die aktuellen Fragen der Europäischen Union: ACTA, SOPA, PIPA; Lobbying und ihre Entwicklung im Kontext der Europäischen Union; der theoretische Rahmen für die Untersuchung der geopolitischen Dimension der Europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitik in Osteuropa; das interaktive Design der Sozio-Human Unterrichtsstunden im Rahmen der Anforderungen des Bologna Prozesses.