Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia

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 is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the Library and Information Science department, University of Jordan. She was head of the University of Jordan's Library and Information Science department from 2014 to 2016 and Deputy Director of its University Library from 2013 to 2016.

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 Master's degree in Information Technology from the National University of Malaysia and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Jordan University of Science and Technology.

Her research mainly concerns social network dynamics and analysis. She has published in highly ranked journals and has presented her work at many international conferences. Her current research interests are in the field of social media, particularly the applications of social media in different contexts. Dr. Taha and three other colleagues recently received funding from the AOU-Kuwait to work on a programming project using 3D Visual Tool.

Dr. Rizik Al-Sayyed is currently an Associate Professor at King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, University of Jordan. Dr. Rizik holds a B.Sc. from the University of Jordan (1984), an M.Sc. from Western Michigan University (1995), and a Ph.D. from Leeds Beckett University (Leeds Metropolitan University, 2007), all in Computer Science. His main areas of interest include Networking (Cloud Computing, Social Networks, Wireless, and Simulation), Database Design and Optimization (email: r.alsayyed@ju.edu.jo).

Dr. Ja'far Alqatawna is an Associate Professor at King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, University of Jordan. He received his B.Eng degree in Computer Engineering from Mu'tah University, Jordan, followed by an MSc. in Information and Communication Systems Security from the Royal Institute of Technology