Editorial: Special selections on contemporary social media and social network research

Abstract

Recently, we have started selecting articles of similar themes for regular issues and writing editorials to guide readers better to the Library Hi Tech and other related literature, such as "Bibliometrics and literature review" Ho, 2021, 2022a;2023) in 39 (4), 40 (3) and 41 (2); "Contemporary digital culture and reading" (Chiu and Ho, 2022b) in 40 ( 5) and "40th anniversary: contemporary library research" (Chiu and Ho, 2022c) in 40 ( 6).Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has seriously affected many cultural organizations, including educational institutions, libraries and museums (

Guest editorial: Contemporary learning behaviors on mobile devices and social media – part II

“…Following our previous special issues on social robots (Kelner et al , 2022), smart cities (Chang and Abdel-Basset, 2022) and COVID-19 (Huang et al , 2021, 2022, 2023), we are glad to continue with part II of this special issue on contemporary technologies for education from part I (Chiu and Ho, 2023d) with 15 articles. As we have overwhelming responses on our recent special issues and thematic selection of articles to be published in recent issues (Chiu and Ho, 2021, 2022a, b, c, 2023a, b, c, 2024; Ho and Chiu, 2023), we shall continue this practice in organizing our publication and guide readers to thematic research and practices presented by authors of Library Hi Tech .…”

Editorial: Special selection on current bibliometrics and reviews

“…Recently, we have started selecting articles of similar themes for regular issues and writing editorials to guide readers better to the Library Hi Tech and other related literature, such as “Bibliometrics and literature review” (Chiu and Ho, 2021, 2022a, 2023a) in 39(4), 40(3) and 41(2), “Information and Knowledge Management” (Chiu and Ho, 2023c) in 41(4), “Digital culture and reading” (Chiu and Ho, 2022b) in 40(5), “Social Media and Social Network Research” (Chiu and Ho, 2023b) in 41(3), “Advances in Learning Technologies” (Chiu and Ho, 2023d) in 41(6) and “40th anniversary: contemporary library research” (Chiu and Ho, 2022c) in 40(6). In this issue, we select 15 current bibliometrics and reviews that should be interesting to the broad readers of Library Hi Tech .…”