The open access journal paper “On the attractiveness of social media for language learning: a look at the state of the art” explores the wide landscape of definitions on key terms related to the social media era, such as “web 2.0” and “social networking sites (SNS)”. The paper delivers a critical view on three key features of web 2.0 technologies, namely user participation, openness and network effects. This journal paper was written by Katerina Zourou and published at the open access journal “Apprentissage des langues et systèmes d’information et de communication” (Alsic).