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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-021-11</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23648</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Editorial</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>L.2.3 - Innovation</subject>
          <subject>L.5.0 - Simulation</subject>
          <subject>L.6.1 - Virtual Community</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Enabling Technologies and Business Infrastructures for Next Generation Social Media:Big Data, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Virtual Reality</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lytras</surname>
            <given-names>Miltiadis D.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">mlytras@acg.edu</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Al-Halabi</surname>
            <given-names>Wadee</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zhang</surname>
            <given-names>Xi</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Haraty</surname>
            <given-names>Ramzi A.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A4">4</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Masud</surname>
            <given-names>Mehedi</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A5">5</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>The American College of Greece</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Athens</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia</addr-line>
        <institution>King Abdulaziz University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Jeddah</addr-line>
        <country>Saudi Arabia</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Tianjin University, Tianjin, China</addr-line>
        <institution>Tianjin University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Tianjin</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A4">
        <label>4</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon</addr-line>
        <institution>Lebanese American University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Beirut</addr-line>
        <country>Lebanon</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A5">
        <label>5</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia</addr-line>
        <institution>Taif University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Taif</addr-line>
        <country>Saudi Arabia</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Miltiadis D. Lytras (<email xlink:type="simple">mlytras@acg.edu</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>21</volume>
      <issue>11</issue>
      <fpage>1379</fpage>
      <lpage>1384</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/42295B14-FDD7-500C-A4BA-F2782880CE6A">42295B14-FDD7-500C-A4BA-F2782880CE6A</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505749">5505749</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2014</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>21</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2015</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Miltiadis D. Lytras, Wadee Al-Halabi, Xi Zhang, Ramzi A. Haraty, Mehedi Masud</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>The last years we faced a tremendous development of social media powered by innovative technologies related to web services, web 2.0 and social networks. Nowadays we are entering in to the next digitally enriched generation of social media and enabled by thrilling, currently under extensive development technologies, like Big Data, Cloud Computing, Virtual/Augmented Reality and Internet of Things. To our understanding the new generation of social media and the integrated business models that will support them are within a converging area where social features and ubiquitous technologies are met. Social elements, related to behavior, self-esteem, attachment and other psychological dimensions of personality will be transparently integrated to a number of technologies. Thus for the next years we have to wait for a number of new applications and systems, all targeted in a meta-existence level where the characteristics of human identity will be mixed with various digital identity elements. This basic trend and direction in the Social Media research in the next decade will boost the transparency of technologies and will stimulate an extremely different Web than the one we are exploiting together. The key dimension of the Social Media sphere will be the dependent social identification of humans by a number of technologies.</p>
      </abstract>
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