Book Review: Internet and Social Media Addiction

This book is a fruitful discussion of the Internet and social media addiction in the digital era. It includes informative and impressive facts about this issue. It clarifies the consequences of the extreme usage of Internet and social media in four educative chapters. The publisher of this book, “ReferencePoint Press”, introduced the “Compact Research Series” to think deeply with focusing on 3 types of information namely objective single author narratives, opinion-based primary source quotations as well as facts and statistics. The addiction series consists of five books examine the risk and challenges of different addictions, from synthetic drugs and heroin to gambling and Internet addiction. Andrea C. Nakaya, the author of this book has a Master’s degree in Communication from San Diego State University. She has been working as a freelance author for almost a decade

Book Review: Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge: A Multidisciplinary Approach

This book includes a provocative collection of instructive, informative and inclusive topics of theories of information through an introduction and 11 chapters. The book attempts to cover a vast range of theories of information, communication and knowledge. It is the result of a great project which is funded by the French Institute of Information and Communication Sciences on the epistemology of information and communication

Book Review: Teens, librarians, and social networking: What librarians need to know?

This book is a collection of wide-ranging, informative and provocative chapters discussing the use of social networks to serve teens, both online and in the library. Comprehensive surveys on this topic are being discussed in this series. The application of social networks is a new era for library services to young adults. Social networking tools are the doorway into their worlds, and the library can use these tools to become a wide-open portal for greater educational opportunities. The aim of this book is to support the belief that teens should be served by libraries in the best ways possible, and social networks may be useful tools to deliver these services to teens. The editors and contributors explain the reasons why so many teens use social networking tools and offer suggestions as to how best to use them to serve teens. They also examine issues of critical concerns to librarians and parents, such as safety and privacy issues, and study the social and educational benefits of online social networking. The book is organized into 12 chapters with a series forward and introduction, a comprehensive table of contents, references, a list of useful websites at the end of each chapter, an index and finally a section on the editors and contributors

Visual indexing and retrieval

This book includes a preface, a table of contents, six informative chapters and expansive references. In the preface, the editors of the book claim that with the advent of social networks, vast amount of visual information is available for end-users. Therefore, they need innovative and fruitful methods for content understanding, retrieval and classification

Book Review: Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration

This book tries to cover all aspects of virtual communities among virtual participants through a collection of inclusive, informative and far-reaching of 13 chapters and 239 pages including preface, a comprehensive table of contents, references and contributors. Comprehensive surveys on the topic of virtual communities, social networks and collaboration are presented in this series. The book is the volume 15 of Annals of Information Systems as an international project of 8 countries. "Ramesh Sharda" and "Stefan Voß" are the main series editors. This book is as an excellent interdisciplinary source of comprehensive knowledge and literature topics related to virtual communities, social networks, and collaboration. It is highly recommended to all librarians, information scientists, social network analysts, researchers, social activists, policymakers, legislators, social decision makers and various professionals due to professional discussions about technical problems of technology application and social issues arising from it. The book provides a great framework for thinking about impacts of technology, online communities and social networks on peoples' life. Moreover, mentioned topics can inform readers of conventional challenges about virtual communities