Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and DisseminationRelease Date: October, 2012. Copyright © 2013. 427 pages.
Select a Format:
Hardcover | $175.00 | | |
You must have an IGI Global account before adding an e-book to your shopping cart.
In Stock. Have it as soon as Jun. 21 with express shipping*. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2178-7, ISBN13: 9781466621787, ISBN10: 1466621788, EISBN13: 9781466621794  | | TopDescriptionThe new generation of internet technologies and web applications is seeing a growth in social software and networking, as well as other communications tools. This infrastructure of social interaction and collaboration has provided an increase in more dynamic user participation and expertise in knowledge of contents and facts traditionally only held by experts. Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination examines the vital role that social software applications play in regards to the cultural definitions of experts and challenges the reader to consider how recent changes in this area influence how we create and distribute knowledge. This collection brings together scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and professions to project a new kind of thinking about the understanding of the major changes in many professions. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors
Search this Book:
Reset | 1. |
Ananda Mitra (Wake Forest University, USA)
A fundamental epistemological question that has been the focus of much deliberation over time is: how do we know what we know? One of the answers to this question ha...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 2. |
Christopher Sweet (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)
The Free Online Encyclopedia, as Wikipedia calls itself, is a radical departure from traditional encyclopedias and traditional methods of knowledge creation. This ch...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 3. |
Rebekah A. Pure (University of California, USA), Alexander R. Markov (University of California, USA), J. Michael Mangus (University of California, USA), Miriam J. Metzger (University of California, USA), Andrew J. Flanagin (University of California, USA), Ethan H. Hartsell (University of California, USA)
Recent technological changes have created a radically different information environment from the one that existed even a few decades ago. Rather than coming from a s...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 4. |
Christopher Watts (St. Lawrence University, USA)
Social software forms new kinds of collectives and expands the means of producing and disseminating knowledge. Yet the combination of persistent connection and fragm...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 5. |
Carlos A. Scolari (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Cristóbal Cobo Romaní (Oxford Internet Institute, UK), Hugo Pardo Kuklinski (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Disintermediation based on digital technology has transformed different environments, including banking, commerce, media, education, and knowledge management. The sp...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 6. |
Laurie Craig Phipps (Simon Fraser University, Canada & Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada), Alyssa Wise (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Cheryl Amundsen (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Discussion of changing notions of faculty expertise and the role of technology within the educational enterprise is nothing new. However, the current demand for chan...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 7. |
Anne Beaulieu (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Netherlands), Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands, The Netherlands)
Web 2.0 is characterized by values of openness of participation (unrestricted by traditional markers of expertise), collaboration across and beyond institutions, inc...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 8. |
José van Dijck (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Search engines in general, and Google Scholar in particular, are co-producers of academic knowledge. They have a profound impact on the way knowledge is generated, t...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 9. |
Lilian Landes (Bavarian State Library, Germany)
With digitalization increasing, scholars’ reading habits and communication methods are also changing, thus affecting the field of traditional reviewing in the humani...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 10. |
Maria Cassella (University of Torino, Italy), Licia Calvi (NHTV University of Breda, The Netherlands)
This chapter presents the results of a survey of Dutch and Italian academic libraries conducted to identify how academic libraries deal with the growing adoption of...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 11. |
Megan Fitzgibbons (McGill University, Canada)
The advent of social media necessitates new pedagogical approaches in the field of political science, specifically in relation to undergraduate students’ critical th...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 12. |
Werner Beuschel (IBAW – Institute of Business Application Systems, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
This chapter uses a methodological approach to investigate research and design knowledge acquisition in the context of social software applications, an area cluttere...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 13. |
Mary J. Snyder Broussard (Lycoming College, USA), Rebecca A. Wilson (Susquehanna University, USA), Janet McNeil Hurlbert (Lycoming College, USA), Alison S. Gregory (Lycoming College, USA)
Social media applications like wikis, blogs, and comments on online news feeds emphasize user participation, encouraging ongoing revision by volunteer expertise. Sur...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 14. |
Abigail A. Grant (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Text messaging has many similarities to poetry or short prose writing. Instructors typically discount text messaging as a distraction in the classroom, but this chap...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 15. |
Tamara Girardi (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Twitter represents a virtual, global classroom of collective intelligence and an epistemological shift in which the “experts” in the exchange are not necessarily the...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 16. |
Frederik Truyen (University of Leuven, Belgium), Filip Buekens (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Several co-evolving trends have impacted expectations of professional workers’ quality of knowledge. The abundance of information shared through the Internet, the ev...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 17. |
Steven Ovadia (LaGuardia Community College, USA)
This chapter discusses the authority structures found within the community support forums of open and closed source operating systems (Linux, Windows, and OS X), dem...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 18. |
Emily Clark (The University of Texas at Austin School of Information, USA)
In the world of archives, Web 2.0 means more than wider and easier access to digital surrogates of archival objects. Newly developing Web 2.0 applications provide mu...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
| 19. |
Ilias Karasavvidis (Department of Preschool Education, University of Thessaly, Greece)
Social software facilitates the linking of people in unprecedented ways and leads to new knowledge creation and application practices. Even though expertise remains...
Sample PDF |
More details... | $37.50 |
TopReviews and TestimonialsContributors from a wide range of disciplines look at how digital technologies have changed the production, dissemination, and definition of knowledge, and where this might lead to. They cover expertise and the changing nature of knowledge creation and dissemination in the web 2.0 environment, changing expert environments in the university and in the areas of research and scholarship, reimagining pedagogical expertise, and case studies of collective or decentralized expertise. Among the topics are Wikipedia's success and the rise of the amateur expert, Google scholar as the co-producer of scholarly knowledge, teaching political science students to find and evaluate information in the social media flow, faculty and undergraduate perceptions of expertise within social media, and interaction and expertise in an Appalachian music archive.
– Book News Inc. Portland, OR
TopTopics Covered- Academic Libraries
- Collective Expertise
- Collective intelligence
- Distributed Expertise
- Experts and Expertise
- Higher education
- Knowledge creation
- Knowledge Dissemination
- Materialization of Knowledge
- Pedagogy
- Scholarship
- Social Media
- Social software
TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyTatjana Takševa studied Literature and Linguistics at the University of Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia, and the Humanities at York University, Canada. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada. Currently, she is Associate Professor at the Department of English at Saint Mary’s University, Canada, where she teaches courses in literature and culture. In addition to having published a monograph on 17th century reading habits in the manuscript medium and models of literary knowledge dissemination, as well as scholarly articles on literary subjects, she is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on ICT, pedagogy, cross-cultural communication and the digital humanities. Her research interests are focused on how different media in historical contexts affect human cognition, as well as cultural models of knowledge creation and dissemination. |
| |