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Virtual Communities: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (4 Volumes)

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Release Date: October, 2010. Copyright © 2011. 2930 pages.
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-100-3, ISBN13: 9781609601003, ISBN10: 1609601009, EISBN13: 9781609601010
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Virtual communities have the potential to revolutionize all aspects of modern life, as individuals and groups conduct a significant amount of business and personal networking in online environments.

Virtual Communities: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications thoroughly investigates the development, design, and utilization of virtual organizations and communities and the resulting impact of these venues. This four-volume reference source offers research on the foundation and future of social networking, human-computer interaction, and innumerable applications of virtual worlds, making it an essential addition to any library’s collection.

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David P. Colachico (Azusa Pacific University, USA)
We are currently living in an electronic age where it is easier to travel the world, stay in touch with people who live away from our face-to-face environment withou... Sample PDF | More details...
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Eleni Berki (University of Tampere, Finland), Mikko Jäkälä (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Information and communication technology gradually transform virtual communities to active meeting places for sharing information and for supporting human actions, f... Sample PDF | More details...
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Petter Bae Brandtzæg (SINTEF and University of Oslo, Norway), Jan Heim (SINTEF, Norway)
The last few years have seen a substantial growth in online communities such as MySpace and Facebook. In order to survive and increase in size, online community syst... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jon Dron (Athabasca University, Canada), Terry Anderson (Athabasca University, Canada)
Understanding the affordances, effectiveness and applicability of new media in multiple contexts is usually a slow and evolving process with many failed applications... Sample PDF | More details...
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Demosthenes Akoumianakis (Technological Education Institution of Crete, Greece)
This chapter aims to provide an introductory tutorial to the key topics and themes suggested in the chapter’s title and further developed by authors in the four main... Sample PDF | More details...
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Abhijit Roy (University of Scranton, USA)
Technology has enabled communities to move beyond the physical face-to-face contacts to the online realm of the World Wide Web. With the advent of the highways in th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Scott Wilson (University of Bolton, UK)
This chapter describes the mechanisms of presence in social networks and presents an ontology that frames the purpose, content, methods of production and methods of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Blanchard (University of North Carolina, USA), Blanchard (University of North Carolina, USA)
Sense of virtual community is an important component of successful virtual communities. Defined as members’ feelings of belonging, identity, and attachment with each... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rhoda C. Joseph (Instituto de Empresa Business School, Spain)
This article examines the area of social computing and its implications for electronic government (e­-government). Social computing is a broad term that refers to di... Sample PDF | More details...
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Hernâni Borges de Freitas (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal), Alexandre Barão (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal), Alberto Rodrigues da Silva (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal)
A social network represents a set of social entities that interact through relationships like friendship, co-working, or information exchange. Social Network Analysi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Henry Been Lirn Duh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) allows a large number of players to cooperate, compete and interact meaningfully in the online environment. Gamers are able t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lalita Rajasingham (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
This chapter contributes to the ongoing discussion on current best practice and trends in e-learning and virtual classes in higher education. With the increasing imp... Sample PDF | More details...
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Marion Cottingham (University of Western Australia, Australia)
For centuries universities have worked as individual entities in isolation, and students have attended classes their respective campuses. In the 70s Open University... Sample PDF | More details...
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Luis V. Casaló (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
The rapid growth of virtual communities has created a new interest in researchers. Indeed, understanding these communities is especially relevant because it may allo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Luis V. Casaló (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Carlos Flavián (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Miguel Guinalíu (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Individuals are increasingly turning to computermediated communication in order to get information on which to base their decisions. For instance, many consumers are... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sunanda Sangwan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Chong Guan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Judy A. Siguaw (Cornell-Nanyang Institute, Singapore)
Multi-user virtual communities have become an accepted fundamental component of communication whereby community members share information and knowledge for mutual le... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sue Conger (University of Dallas, USA)
Social networking sites, enabled by Web 2.0 technologies and embodied in role-playing virtual worlds, are gaining in popularity and use both for recreational and bus... Sample PDF | More details...
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Marie C. Paretti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA), Lisa D. McNair (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
This chapter uses activity theory as a lens to understand the implications of both virtual collaboration and cross-cultural contact for communication in global virtu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Fernando Garrigos (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
This chapter presents the interrelationships between professional virtual communities and social networks, and analyzes how, and in what ways, these communities play... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sharmila Pixy Ferris (William Paterson University, USA)
In this chapter the author explores Millenials’ participation in the public good, investigating whether they use social networking for social responsibility. Milleni... Sample PDF | More details...
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Krzysztof Juszczyszyn (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland), Katarzyna Musial (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Network motifs are small subgraphs that reflect local network topology and were shown to be useful for creating profiles that reveal several properties of the networ... Sample PDF | More details...
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Neil P. Baird (University of Nevada, USA)
Virtual workplaces are no longer the province of young technophiles, and we must become more conscious of the particular challenges and issues those considered “nont... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rosanna E. Guadagno (University of Alabama, USA), Cassie A. Eno (University of Alabama, USA), Bradley M. Okdie (University of Alabama, USA)
The present chapter examines current research of blogging practices; it focuses on the personal blog, a blog created and maintained by an individual and not used for... Sample PDF | More details...
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Gunnar Harboe (Motorola, USA)
This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of social television, in an attempt to find the real meaning of the term. It explores the history and current s... Sample PDF | More details...
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Matti Tedre (Tumaini University, Tanzania)
This chapter introduces the reader to some social research characteristics that are central to the social study of computer science. It introduces research studies t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jamie S. Switzer (Colorado State University, USA)
The world now lives and works in cyberspace. Often, organizations have their people perform functional tasks by working in virtual teams, where members use technolog... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maonolis Tsiknakis (ICS-FORTH, Greece)
This chapter provides an overview and discussion of virtual communities in health and social care. The available literature indicates that a virtual community in hea... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rui Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Konstantinos Votis (Pattern Recognition Laboratory, University of Patras and Informatics and Telematics Institute, CERTH, Greece), Luís Carriço (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Spiridon Likothanassis (Pattern Recognition Labora)
The Web serves as the principal mediator for information sharing and communication on a worldwide scale. Its highly decentralized nature affords a scale free growth,... Sample PDF | More details...
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Manuel Kolp (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Yves Wautelet (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Information systems are deeply linked to human activities. Unfortunately, development methodologies have been traditionally inspired by programming concepts and not... Sample PDF | More details...
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M. Mari (Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy), A. Poggi (Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy), M. Tomaiuolo (Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy)
Virtual communities represent the gathering of people, in an online “space” where they come, communicate, connect, and get to know each other better over time. Virtu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tudor Groza (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Siegfried Handschuh (National University of Ireland, Ireland), John G. Breslin (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Stefan Decker (National University of Ireland, Ireland)
Classic argumentative discussions can be found in a variety of domains from traditional scientific publishing to today’s modern social software. An interactive argum... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Rutger Rienks (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
In this chapter the authors discuss a particular approach to the creation of socio-technical systems for the meeting domain. Besides presenting a methodology this ch... Sample PDF | More details...
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Diego Liberati (Italian National Research Council, Italy)
A framework is proposed that creates, uses, communicates, and distributes information whose organizational dynamics allow it to perform a distributed cooperative ent... Sample PDF | More details...
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Asim Balci (Turksat - International Satellite and Cable Operator and Selçuk University, Turkey), Erhan Kumas (Turksat - International Satellite and Cable Operator, Turkey), Tunç D. Medeni (Turksat - International Satellite and Cable Operator,)
Development and extensive use of information and communication technologies has led to important implications for public sectors throughout the world. As a result, i... Sample PDF | More details...
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Avimanyu Datta (Washington State University, USA), Len Jessup (Washington State University, USA)
The authors present a parsimonious theoretical model that illustrates how Internet-based virtual environments (such as social networking Web sites) moderate the rela... Sample PDF | More details...
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Juwel Rana (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Josef Hallberg (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Kåre Synnes (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Johan Kristiansson (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
The cloud computing model inherently enables information from social networking services (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and so forth), context-based systems (location... Sample PDF | More details...
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Brian Whitworth (Massey University - Auckland, New Zealand)
If politeness makes society a nicer place to be, by lubricating the interaction of its human parts, then the same is important for online society. As the Internet be... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anas Abou El Kalam (Université de Toulouse, LAAS-CNRS, France), Yves Deswarte (Université de Toulouse, IRIT, INPT-ENSEEIHT, France)
With the emergence of Web Services-based collaborative systems, new issues arise, in particular those related to security. In this context, Web Service access contro... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mladen Stanojevic (The Mihailo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia), Sanja Vraneš (The Mihailo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia)
In this chapter, several knowledge representation and processing techniques based on a symbolic and semantic approach are briefly described. The majority of present-... Sample PDF | More details...
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Robert Gilles (Virginia Tech, USA), Tabitha James (Virginia Tech, USA), Reza Barkhi (Virginia Tech, USA), Dimitrios Diamantaras (Temple University, USA)
Social networks depict complex systems as graph theoretic models. The study of the formation of such systems (or networks) and the subsequent analysis of the network... Sample PDF | More details...
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Domínguez (University Of Salamanca, Spain)
The social network analysis (SNA) method is a set of methods considered these days as a paradigm or a method that offers “the mapping and measuring of relationships... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kam Hou Vat (Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau)
The mission of this chapter is to present a framework of ideas concerning the expected form of knowledge sharing over the emerging Semantic Web. Of specific interest... Sample PDF | More details...
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Theodor G. Wyeld (Flinders University, Norway), Ekaterina Prasolova-Forland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Remote, collaborative work practices are increasingly common in a globalised society. Simulating these environments in a pedagogical setting allows students to engag... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lee Moh Shan (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Juliana Sutanto (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Atreyi Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Bernard C.Y. Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Virtual communities were initially recognized as social phenomena. This is evident from the definition of virtual community as “a social aggregation that emerges fro... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bill Karakostas (City University London, UK), Dimitris Kardaras (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), Adéla Zichová (City University London, UK)
Virtual communities are groups of people with similar interests who meet online and together act as a learning environment, place for social support, or as bodies fo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sheng-Uei Guan (Brunel University, UK), Fangming Zhu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is booming with the increasing accessibility of the Internet. E-commerce is revolutionizing the concept of carrying out business fun... Sample PDF | More details...
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James K. Ford (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Tobias Höllerer (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Until recently, Augmented Reality (AR) technology has rarely been discussed outside of the computer science world. It has taken years for this technology to become c... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lisa Kervin (University of Wollongong, Australia), Jessica Mantei (University of Wollongong, Australia), Anthony Herrington (University of Wollongong, Australia)
This chapter examines blogging as a social networking tool to engage final year preservice teachers in reflective processes. Using a developed Web site, the students... Sample PDF | More details...
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David Hinds (Hinds & Associates, USA), Ronald M. Lee (Florida International University, USA)
In this chapter, the authors suggest how measures of “social network health” can be used to evaluate the status and progress of a virtual community. Using social cap... Sample PDF | More details...
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Norman E. Youngblood (Texas Tech University, USA), Joel West (Texas Tech University, USA)
Collaborative writing is an important element of the virtual workplace. While it is sometimes enough to e-mail a document back and forth between authors and editors,... Sample PDF | More details...
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Peter Burkhardt (IBM, USA)
Social networking and Web 2.0 are the hottest words in technology right now; but is there more than just hype? This chapter will define and describe social software... Sample PDF | More details...
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Le-Shin Wu (Indiana University, USA), Ruj Akavipat (Indiana University, USA), Ana Gabriela Maguitman (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina), Filippo Menczer (Indiana University, USA)
This chapter proposed a collaborative peer network application called 6Search (6S) to address the scalability limitations of centralized search engines. Each peer cr... Sample PDF | More details...
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Matt Crosslin (University of Texas at Arlington’s Center for Distance Education, USA)
Moodle is currently one of the more popular opensource course management systems in online education. Some evaluations have also indicated that Moodle is one of the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christine Simard (Télé-université (TÉLUQ), Canada), Josianne Basque (Télé-université (TÉLUQ), Canada)
This chapter discusses how cultural variables can be taken into account when designing computer-based learning environments (CLEs). Its purpose is to identify concre... Sample PDF | More details...
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Demosthenes Akoumianakis (Technological Education Institution of Crete, Greece)
This article aims to develop a conceptual frame of reference for analyzing and gaining insight to virtual community practices. The author’s normative perspective is... Sample PDF | More details...
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Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz (Algoma University, Canada), Arthur Edwards (University of Colima, Mexico), Raul Aquino-Santos (University of Colima, Mexico), Samir El-Seoud (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan), Miguel Vargas Martin (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in most world economies suffer from a series of intense economic pressures from local, regional and international markets. A... Sample PDF | More details...
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Chrisoula Alexandraki (Technological Education Institution of Crete, Greece), Nikolas Valsamakis (Technological Education Institution of Crete, Greece)
The chapter provides an overview of virtual music communities focusing on novel collaboration environments aiming to support networked and geographically dispersed m... Sample PDF | More details...
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Katrin Weller (Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany), Isabella Peters (Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany), Wolfgang G. Stock (Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
This chapter discusses folksonomies as a novel way of indexing documents and locating information based on user generated keywords. Folksonomies are considered from... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sukumar Ganapati (Florida International University, USA)
This chapter explores the institutional opportunities and challenges of adopting wireless communications for mobile government at the local level. The basic ingredie... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anders Kofod-Petersen (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway), Rebekah Wegener (Macquarie University Sydney, Australia)
Location-aware social network services are set to be the next generation of social networking services. These services typically allow users to send and receive mess... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lee Humphreys (Cornell University, USA)
Mobile social networks allow users to connect with each other, share information, and create technologically enabled mobile communities. With the introduction of the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Paul T. Kidd (Cheshire Henbury, UK)
Addressed in this chapter is the Social Shaping of the Semantic Web in the context of moving beyond the workplace application domain that has so dominated the develo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Nainika Seth (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Online personals have been a remarkably successful in the Western World and have been emulated in other cultural contexts. The introduction of the Internet can have... Sample PDF | More details...
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Helen Donelan (The Open University, UK), Clem Herman (The Open University, UK), Karen Kear (The Open University, UK), Gill Kirkup (The Open University, UK)
Social interaction technologies present women with powerful tools to extend their network of professional contacts. This chapter considers the use of online networks... Sample PDF | More details...
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Justin D. Weisz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Online video is one of the Internet’s most popular services. In addition to entertainment, it can provide a social experience. This chapter describes several design... Sample PDF | More details...
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RSS in Virtual Organizations (pages 1002-1008)
Tom Chan (Southern New Hampshire Univesity, USA)
Rich site summary (RSS) is a type of XML document used to share Web contents. Originally designed by Netscape (http://www.netscape.com) to create customize Web chann... Sample PDF | More details...
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Gianluca Correndo (University of Southampton, UK), Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK), Manuel Salvadores (University of Southampton, UK)
Most organizations store their data in several databases with no flexible mechanism for integration and access, and with no common vocabulary in place. Maintaining l... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tom Gross (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany), Thilo Paul-Stueve (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany), Mirko Fetter (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
Social TV provides co-located and geographically distributed TV spectators with facilities for jointly watching television and for social interaction. In this chapte... Sample PDF | More details...
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James M. Laffey (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA), Christopher J. Amelung (Yale University, USA)
Context-aware activity notification systems have potential to improve and support the social experience of online learning. The authors of this chapter have develope... Sample PDF | More details...
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Georgios Michaelides (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Gábor Hosszú (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
The importance of the virtual communities’ privacy and security problems comes into prominence by the rapid development of online social networks. This article prese... Sample PDF | More details...
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Benjamin E. Erlandson (Arizona State University, USA)
CompILE is a sociotechnical “comprehensive interactive learning environment” system for personal knowledge management and visualization that represents the growing c... Sample PDF | More details...
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Meng-Fen Grace Lin (University of Houston, USA), Curtis J. Bonk (Indiana University, USA), Suthiporn Sajjapanroj (Indiana University, USA)
Web 2.0 technologies empower individuals to contribute thoughts and ideas rather than passively survey online content and resources. Such participatory environments... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jamie S. Switzer (Colorado State University, USA)
This article will focus on the characteristics of a technology- supported virtual community where university students can seek the guidance of professionals in the s... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mary Rose Grant (Saint Louis University, USA)
Adult learning theory suggests that adults need to perceive the relevance and purpose of learning in order to learn most effectively. Grounded in the notion that adu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Nataly Martini (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Jeff Harrison (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Rick Bennett (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
Creative Waves: Visualising Issues in Pharmacy (VIP) was a global online project run over 14 weeks during 2007. The project linked over 200 students, educators, ment... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lionel Mew (George Washington University, USA and American University, USA), William H. Money (George Washington University, USA)
Online Social Networking (OSN) systems such as Ning, MySpace, Facebook and Friendster have achieved tremendous popularity. However, little research has been conducte... Sample PDF | More details...
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Harsha Gangadharbatla (University of Oregon, USA)
This chapter focuses on detailing the role of five individual level factors—Internet self-efficacy, self-esteem, need to belong, need for information, and gender—in... Sample PDF | More details...
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Grzegorz Kolaczek (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
One of the most important factors in human interaction and communication is trust. Each organization performing its quotidian tasks use intentionally or involuntary... Sample PDF | More details...
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I. Apostolakis (National School of Public Health, Greece), A. Chryssanthou (Greek Data Protection Agency, Greece), I. Varlamis (University of Peloponnese, Greece)
A significant issue in health related applications is protecting a patient’s profile data from unauthorized access. In the case of telemedicine systems a patient’s m... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sudhir H. Kale (Bond University, Australia)
More than half a billion users across the globe have availed themselves of e-dating services. This chapter looks at the marketing and cross-cultural aspects of mate-... Sample PDF | More details...
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Brian Amento (AT&T Labs – Research, USA), Chris Harrison (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Mukesh Nathan (University of Minnesota, USA), Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota, USA)
With the advent of digital video recorders and video-on-demand services, the way in which we consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less... Sample PDF | More details...
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Carolyn Kristjánsson (Trinity Western University, Canada)
In a climate of increasing globalization with calls for the development of online learning communities that thrive on diversity, it is important to consider how dive... Sample PDF | More details...
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Javier Soriano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Sonia Frutos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Jiménez. Miguel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Open source communities are one of the most successful-- and least appreciated--examples of high-performance collaboration and community building on the Internet tod... Sample PDF | More details...
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Devan Rosen (University of Hawaii, USA), Michael A. Stefanone (University at Buffalo, USA), Derek Lackaff (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
People from distinct cultural backgrounds communicate and manage their interpersonal relations in systematically different ways. The current chapter utilizes a surve... Sample PDF | More details...
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Malcolm Shore (Canterbury University, New Zealand)
This chapter is about the way in which computer hackers invoke social networking paradigms to support and encourage their activities. It reviews the evolution of hac... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anita L. Blanchard (University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA)
Howard Rheingold’s (1993) book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier was the first to bring virtual communities to the attention of research... Sample PDF | More details...
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Steve Wheeler (University of Plymouth, UK)
The use of group oriented software, or groupware, encourages students to generate their own content (McGill et al, 2005) and can foster supportive and dynamic commun... Sample PDF | More details...
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Julie Davis (Clarkson University and Texas Tech University, USA), Letitia Harding (University of the Incarnate Word and Texas Tech University, USA), Deanna Mascle (Morehead State University and Texas Tech University, USA)
Online or e-learning is increasingly becoming an integral part of education and training programs both in the academic world and in industry. This chapter includes a... Sample PDF | More details...
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Malathi Subramanian (University of Delhi, India), Anupama Saxena (Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur, India)
IT enabled e-governance in India seeks to achieve a more equitous, efficient, transparent, speedy, and corruption free service delivery system. But in the Indian con... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maher O. Al-Fakhri (Ministry of Civil Service, Saudi Arabia), Robert A. Cropf (Saint Louis University, USA), Gary Higgs (Saint Louis University, USA), Patrick Kelly (Saint Louis University, USA)
Saudi Arabia is in the process of transitioning to e-government. Many of the Saudi government agencies have their own web sites; however, most are ineffective. Based... Sample PDF | More details...
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Irene le Roux (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Karen Lazenby (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Dolf Jordaan (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
The University of Pretoria (UP) implemented a virtual campus in 1999. The measure in which and rate at which the virtual campus environment was adopted in the instit... Sample PDF | More details...
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Heather D. Pfeiffer (New Mexico State University, USA), Emma L. Tonkin (University of Bath, UK)
This chapter examines social tagging as annotation; first from the perspective of classification research; and second from the perspective of knowledge representatio... Sample PDF | More details...
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George Ubachs (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, The Netherlands), Christina Brey (European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, The Netherlands)
In higher education, international student mobility has become increasingly important for learners as well as for institutions. But today’s mobility schemes are firs... Sample PDF | More details...
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Laura A. Ripamonti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Armando Cirrincione (Università Bocconi, Italy)
In 1994, Peters (1994) claimed that we are experiencing crazy times and that calls for crazy organizations. As a matter of fact, we are embedded into a complex and “... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mark G. Elwell (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Tunç D. Medeni (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Online communities are increasingly seen to display the same features accepted as characteristic of communities based on face-to-face interaction. Among the characte... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stacey L. Connaughton (Purdue University, USA), Elizabeth A. Williams (Purdue University, USA), Jennifer S. Linvill (Purdue University, USA), Elizabeth J. O’Connor (Purdue University, USA), Troy Hayes (Ingersoll-Rand plc., USA)
Temporary virtual teams are common organizing forms across industries and sectors, and their members often span national, functional, and other boundaries. Many time... Sample PDF | More details...
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Brian Whitworth (Massey University - Auckland, New Zealand)
A socio-technical system (STS) is a social system built upon a technical base. An STS adds social requirements to human-computer interaction (HCI) requirements, whic... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mona Florea (University of Rhode Island Library, USA), Lillian Rafeldt (Three Rivers Community College, USA), Susan Youngblood (Texas Tech University, USA)
The chapter presents healthcare examples of the current virtual working environment and introduces nursing skills necessary for evidence-based practice in a virtual... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lea Kuznik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Virtual worlds for adults (e.g. Second Life), youth (e.g. Habbo) and children (e.g. Whyville) have a great potential for learning and teaching practices for enrichin... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jengchung V. Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), Yu-Hsiang Wang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Since the Internet and other IT technologies have become more popular than ever before, the amount of time people spend with computers and IT products, such as Inter... Sample PDF | More details...
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Gilliean Lee (Lander University, USA)
In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for innovative ways of delivering education, which led to a more personalized, flexible, and portable learning (... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sheizaf Rafaeli (University of Haifa, Israel), Tsahi Hayat (University of Haifa, Israel), Yaron Ariel (University of Haifa, Israel)
A virtual knowledge-building community is a group of people who collaboratively produce knowledge through an online-mediated environment. The process and means for s... Sample PDF | More details...
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Huiyan Zhang (Schouten China, People’s Republic of China), Marshall Scott Poole (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
This chapter reports the results of a multiple case study which investigated how virtual teams appropriated multiple media to facilitate the construction of group id... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lynnette G. Leonard (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA), Lesley A. Withers (Central Michigan University, USA), John C. Sherblom (University of Maine, USA)
Past research on the effects of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on identity has focused either on the inherent risks or opportunities it provides. The authors... Sample PDF | More details...
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Zixue Tai (University of Kentucky, USA)
In comparison with the USA and Europe, the Chinese blogosphere was off to a later start; however, it has experienced phenomenal growth since its formal birth in 2002... Sample PDF | More details...
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Katheryn C. Maguire (Wayne State University, USA.)
This chapter examines the research on sex differences and gender identification in computer-mediated interaction (CMI), and presents a pilot study of synchronous, an... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tas Adam (Victoria University, Australia), Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
The term learning disability (LD) refers to any retardation, disorder, or delayed development in one or more of the processes of speech, language, reading, writing,... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christopher A. Miller (Smart Information Flow Technologies, USA)
This chapter focuses not on technology mediation of human relationships, but rather on human-like relationships with technology itself. The author argues, with suppo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mariza Georgalou (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
It has been argued that social network sites (SNSs) constitute a cultural arena which gives rise to the processes of self-presentation, impression management and fri... Sample PDF | More details...
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Martin Weller (The Open University, UK), James Dalziel (Macquarie University, Australia)
This chapter looks at some of the areas of tension between the new social networking, Web 2.0 communities and the values of higher education. It argues that both the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Francesco Sofo (University of Canberra, Australia)
Social interaction technologies have made it possible for teams to exist in a virtual reality. Such change to the workplace status quo requires a new appreciation of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Luis F. Luna-Reyes (Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico), J. Ramon Gil-Garcia (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico)
Electronic government has the potential of transforming the way government works and interacts with citizens. However, recent research has found that the promised be... Sample PDF | More details...
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Laurence Claeys (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Belgium), Johan Criel (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Belgium)
This chapter introduces the concept of critical user participation as a means to see the socio-technical gap in context aware applications as an opportunity rather t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jonathan Bishop (Glamorgan Blended Learning Ltd. & The GTi Suite & Valleys Innovation Centre & Navigation Park & Abercynon, UK)
The rise of online communities in Internet environments has set in motion an unprecedented shift in power from vendors of goods and services to the customers who buy... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stefan Hrastinski (Uppsala University, Sweden), Christina Keller (Uppsala University and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden), Jörgen Lindh (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden)
The transition from learning on campus to e-learning presents many challenges. One of the key challenges is the organisational culture, which may enhance or hinder e... Sample PDF | More details...
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Muhammet Demirbilek (Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey), Berna Mutlu (University of Florida, USA)
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become an inevitable part of adolescents’ daily life and have caused macro and micro changes that are shaping t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tunç D. Medeni (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Mark Elwell (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Steven A. Cook (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Euler G.M. de Souza (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
It is increasingly being recognized that participation in role-playing gaming communities contributes to the learning of their members. Within the field of education... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jalal Kawash (American University of Sharjah, UAE), Christo El Morr (York University, Canada), Hamza Taha (American University of Sharjah, UAE), Wissam Charaf (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Commuting forms an integral part of our lives, whether we are commuting for leisure or business. The use of location-based services and mobile computing has potentia... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jerzy Lepa (Victoria University, Australia), Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
Around the world the proportion of older people is growing, and this group is accessing the World Wide Web more and more for a variety of purposes including e-mail,... Sample PDF | More details...
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Peter J. Denning (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
Wicked problems (messes) are tangled social situations that are too costly to stay in and too intransigent to get out of. Collaboration is essential to resolving the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anita Blanchard (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), David A. Askay (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Katherine A. Frear (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Sense of virtual community (feelings of identity, belonging, and attachment) is an essential component of virtual communities. In this chapter, we develop a model of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sense of Virtual Community (pages 1821-1829)
Hanna-Kaisa Ellonen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland), Miia Kosonen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland), Kaisa Henttonen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)
Virtual communities have been an issue in academic research since the 1990s (c.f., Fernback & Thompson, 1995; Hagel & Armstrong, 1997; Preece, 2000; Rheingold, 2000)... Sample PDF | More details...
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Dhrubodhi Mukherjee (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Social interaction technologies create communicative possibilities that go beyond dyadic interactions and across physical boundaries, bringing a qualitative shift in... Sample PDF | More details...
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Max Kennedy (University of Kentucky, USA), Toru Sakaguchi (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
This chapter attempts to understand the trust in social network services, where users post their personal information online to everyone with or without any specific... Sample PDF | More details...
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Carolyn McKinnell Jacobson (Mount St. Mary’s University, USA)
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment, usually modeled after the real world, accessed through an online interface, and inhabited by users in the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sunitha Kuppuswamy (Anna University Chennai, Chennai, India), P. B. Shankar Narayan (Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India)
Social networking websites like Orkut, Facebook, Myspace and Youtube are becoming more and more popular and has become part of daily life for an increasing number of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Greg Streib (Georgia State University, USA), Ignacio Navarro (Georgia State University, USA)
Much has been written about the benefits of e-government, but far less has been written about how the e-government revolution will be staffed. Many questions remain... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy), Giovanni Torris (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy)
Starting from the increasingly widespread need to develop effective teaching in complex transnational settings, this chapter presents an innovative blended model wit... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anna Peachey (Eygus Ltd, UK), Daniel Livingstone (University of the West of Scotland, UK), Sarah Walshe (Open University, UK)
In 2005 the Centre for Professional Learning and Development at the Open University (OU) established a pioneering collaboration with Reuters (which in 2008 became Th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Hunter W. Jamerson (Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael C. Allen, Judge, 12th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, USA)
The purpose of this chapter is to advise developers, content providers, end users, legislators, and business managers about the challenges and ramifications of condu... Sample PDF | More details...
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E. Claver-Cortés (University of Alicante, Spain)
Government agencies are being pressed to become more efficient. For this reason, e-government strategies result from the expectations from society to be able to use... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yulin Fang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Dev K. Dutta (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Despite a sizable body of literature on virtual organization, little attention has been paid to defining organizational virtuality and identifying factors that influ... Sample PDF | More details...
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Gunilla Widén-Wulff (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), Anna-Karin Tötterman (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Social interaction technologies can successfully employ the previously untapped power of the web to utilize the collaborative creation of information and user-driven... Sample PDF | More details...
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Iris Reychav (Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Holon Acadmic Institute, Israel), Jacob Weisberg (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
The ongoing expansion of organizations’ international activities has led to a search for solutions to assist in the creation and transfer of knowledge among them, in... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stefan Klink (Universität Karlsruhe (TH) – Research University, Germany), Peter Weiß (FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany)
This chapter looks at the impact and opportunities of semantic technologies and Web services to business relationships and how social Semantic Web techniques foster... Sample PDF | More details...
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Chris Abbott (Reader in E-Inclusion - King’s College London, UK), William Alder (Sixth Form Student - Trinity School, UK)
Although social networking has been enthusiastically embraced by large numbers of children and young people, their schools and colleges have been more cautious, and... Sample PDF | More details...
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Margherita Pagani (Bocconi University, Italy), Charles Hofacker (Florida State University, USA)
Managers are increasingly interested in the social web, as it provides numerous opportunities for strengthening and expanding relationships with customers, but the n... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jens Gammelgaard (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
In geographically dispersed organizations, like multinational corporations (MNCs), contextual gaps exist between senders and receivers of knowledge. Employee sociali... Sample PDF | More details...
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Przemyslaw Kazienko (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland and BT Innovate, British Telecom Group, Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC), UK), Dymitr Ruta (BT Innovate, British Telecom Group, Intelligent Systems Research Centre)
Modern telecommunication service providers implicitly create interactive social networks of individuals that both depend on and influence each other through complex... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rachel McLean (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK)
As a social activity, the shopping experience can not be recreated or improved through technical design alone. This chapter proposes that there is incongruence in on... Sample PDF | More details...
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Luc Pauwels (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Patricia Hellriegel (Lessius University College, Belgium)
This chapter looks into YouTube as one of the most popular Social Software platforms, challenging the dominant discourse with its focus on community formation and us... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maria Vargas-Vera (The Open University, Uk), Miklos Nagy (The Open University, UK), Dominik Zyskowski (Poznan University of Economics, Poland), Konstanty Haniewicz (Poznan University of Economics, Poland), Witold Abramowicz (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)
The promise of being able to support Business-to-Customer applications with a rapidly growing number of heterogeneous services available on the Semantic Web has gene... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jan vom Brocke (University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein), Christian Sonnenberg (University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein), Christoph Lattemann (University of Potsdam, Germany), Stefan Stieglitz (University of Potsdam, Germany)
The usage of social software and virtual community platforms opens up opportunities to bridge the gap between customers and companies and to integrate customers into... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kathryn Greene (Rutgers University, USA), Kate Magsamen-Conrad (Rutgers University, USA)
Use of mediated channels of communication, such as email and instant messenger, is rapidly increasing, especially with adolescents and college-aged populations. This... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bakar Abdul Gapar Abu (Monash University, Australia), Graeme Johanson (Monash University, Australia)
This chapter discusses the prospect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enhancing Malaysia’s policy development processes through citizen engagement... Sample PDF | More details...
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Pei-Di Shen (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan), Tsang-Hsiung Lee (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), Chia-Wen Tsai (Yuanpei University, Taiwan), Yi-Fen Chen (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)
How can practices of knowledge management (KM) enable organizational learning to occur and then lead toward a learning organization? We seek the answer to this quest... Sample PDF | More details...
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Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University, UK), Gurjit Dhillon (Brunel University, UK)
The UK government is striving towards a vision for government-wide transformation, in which local authorities and central government departments are endeavouring to... Sample PDF | More details...
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François Fulconis (University of Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France), Thierry Garrot (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
In the restructuring and reforming of European education, e-learning has become one of the priorities of the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research in... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christie L. McDaniel (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, USA)
Virtual teams are become more and more popular as the world becomes more connected; furthermore, research is suggesting that virtual teams are as effective as face-t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lynette Kvasny (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Fay Cobb Payton (North Carolina State University, USA), Kayla D. Hales (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Using Denning’s model of Internet activism as a sensitizing framework, this chapter describes the manner in which Black bloggers (referred to as the ‘Blackosphere’)... Sample PDF | More details...
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Nisrine Zammar (Université Haute Bretagne, Rennes 2, France)
This article examines the role of actors in a Social Network Sites and also the triggers and challenges they represent to social networking between today’s communiti... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anca Draghici (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania), Diana Barglazan (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania), Myriam Lewkowicz (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France), Gila Molcho (Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Israel)
This chapter presents some recent studies of the social and human dimension of Semantic Web services in the era of virtual organizations, focusing on the challenges,... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bolanle A. Olaniran (Texas Tech University, USA), Hansel E. Burley (Texas Tech University, USA), Maiga Chang (Athabasca University, Canada), Rita Kuo (Ming Dao University, Taiwan), MaryFrances Agnello (Texas Tech University, USA)
The Semantic Web holds significant implications for learning, culture, and non-native speakers, with culture and non-native speakers rarely being addressed in the li... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State University, USA), Jinsheng Xu (NC A&T, USA), Darina Dicheva (Winston-Salem State University, USA), Jinghua Zhang (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Collaborative tagging systems demonstrate the potential to generate collectively built organization structures forming the basis for social navigation and shared kno... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stephen C. Yungbluth (Northern Kentucky University, USA), Zachary P. Hart (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
This chapter examines how power dynamics are manifested in virtual work. It starts with a look at how power is demonstrated in traditional decision making, and progr... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jillianne R. Code (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Nicholas E. Zaparyniuk (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Social and group interactions in online and virtual communities develop and evolve from expressions of human agency. The exploration of the emergence of agency in so... Sample PDF | More details...
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Richard Ribeiro (University of York, UK), Chris Kimble (Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management, France)
This chapter examines the possibility of discovering a “hidden” (potential) Community of Practice (CoP) inside electronic networks, and then using this knowledge to... Sample PDF | More details...
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Shafiz A. Mohd Yusof (Universiti Utara Malaysai, Malaysia)
This chapter attempts to explore the possibility of building social capital in virtual community(VC) by first introducing the phenomenon, its problems and context, t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Laura Widyanto (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Mark Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
It has been alleged by some academics that excessive Internet use can be pathological and addictive. This chapter reviews what is known from the empirical literature... Sample PDF | More details...
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Paul Hodgson (British Telecom, UK)
This chapter analyses the formation and generation of social trust through communications technology in postmodern society, and presents some possible solutions to s... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bryant Paul (Indiana University, USA), Lelia Samson (Indiana University, USA)
This chapter considers the potential role of the Internet in the process of adolescent sexual identity construction. It starts by providing evidence of the ever-incr... Sample PDF | More details...
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Larry L. Burriss (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
What in the world is a chapter on law doing in a book on psychology, behavior and affect (that’s af’ ekt, not ? fekt’)? Well, the analogy of a game comes to mind. Th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Thorsten Caus (Georg August University of Gottingen, Germany), Stefan Christmann (Georg August University of Gottingen, Germany)
As mobile Internet usage continues to grow, the phenomenon of accessing online communities through mobile devices draws researchers’ attention. Statistics show that... Sample PDF | More details...
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Katia Passerini (New Jersey Institute of Technolgoy, USA), Diana Walsh (New Jersey Institute of Technolgoy, USA)
This article reviews the use of e-learning in various organizations. It highlights recent changes in e-learning paradigms such as the shift from an individual to a s... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kenneth E. Kendall (Rutgers University, USA), Julie E. Kendall (Rutgers University, USA)
This chapter explores the social, organizational, and individual impacts of emerging information technologies using the advent of recent technologies including push... Sample PDF | More details...
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John M. Artz (The George Washington University, USA)
Virtual worlds, while not a new phenomenon, have come to the foreground of information technology in the past few years largely due to the growth of Second Life, a t... Sample PDF | More details...
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João Negreiros (ISEGI-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal), Marco Painho (ISEGI-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal), Fernando J. Aguilar (Universidad de Almeria, La Canãda de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain), Manuel A. Aguilar (Universidad de Almeria, La Canãda de San Urba)
The present research focuses on the first software to offer spatial autocorrelation and association measures, spatial exploratory tools, variography and Ordinary Kri... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maria Manuela Cunha (Department of Information Systems and Technology Higher School of Technology, Portugal), Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal), Eva Miranda (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave Urbanização Quinta de Formiga, Portugal)
The convergence of information technology developments, together with instructional and pedagogical developments, is creating opportunities for new paradigms of lear... Sample PDF | More details...
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William Ritke-Jones (CyberMations Consulting Group, USA)
This chapter outlines the need for team members to transform distorted assumptions about team members who are in some way different from them. In our increasingly di... Sample PDF | More details...
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Douglas Eyman (George Mason University, USA)
This chapter proposes an analytic for the assessment of sustainability and success of virtual workplaces. This analytic considers value, visibility, and infrastructu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ann Borda (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI), Australia), Jonathan P. Bowen (London South Bank University and Museophile Limited, UK)
This chapter introduces the concept of a Virtual Organization (VO), using the Internet to link geographically separated participants in an efficient and novel manner... Sample PDF | More details...
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Virtual Mentoring (pages 2612-2627)
Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter (Texas Tech University, USA), Emilio S. Hernandez (Texas Tech University, USA)
With the proliferation of information technology and its saturation within homes, classrooms, and organizations, the traditional landscape of mentoring relationships... Sample PDF | More details...
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Isa Jahnke (Dortmund University of Technology, Germany)
The chapter describes an empirical study of a socio-technical community—as an extended part of an institution— with the aim of revealing its changing processes. One... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kurt Komaromi (Ithaca College, USA), Fahri Unsal (Ithaca College, USA), G. Scott Erickson (Ithaca College, USA)
Trust in exchanges is an important concept in business and has become of topic of some interest in e-commerce. Substantial work has been done on how institutional me... Sample PDF | More details...
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Demosthenes Akoumianakis (Technological Education Institution of Crete, Greece)
This chapter attempts to consolidate concepts, ideas and results reported in this volume in an effort to synthesize an agenda and sketch a roadmap for future researc... Sample PDF | More details...
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The set contributes substantial and valuable material related to virtual communities.

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Topics Covered

  • Applications of virtual communities
  • Behavior in virtual communities
  • Communities of practice
  • Digital Divide
  • Education in virtual communities
  • Privacy and security in virtual worlds
  • Social Computing
  • Social software
  • Trust in virtual communities
  • User interface design
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