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The Evolution and Influence of Social Presence Theory on Online Learning

Patrick R. Lowenthal (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-984-7.ch010
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Lowenthal, Patrick R. "The Evolution and Influence of Social Presence Theory on Online Learning." Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, 2010. 113-128. Web. 21 May. 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-984-7.ch010

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Lowenthal, P. R. (2010). The Evolution and Influence of Social Presence Theory on Online Learning. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 113-128). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-984-7.ch010

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Lowenthal, Patrick R. "The Evolution and Influence of Social Presence Theory on Online Learning." In Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, ed. Subhasish Dasgupta, 113-128 (2010), accessed May 21, 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-984-7.ch010

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The theory of social presence is perhaps the most popular construct used to describe and understand how people socially interact in online learning environments. However, despite its intuitive appeal, researchers and practitioners alike often define and conceptualize this popular construct differently. In fact, it is often hard to distinguish between whether someone is talking about social interaction, immediacy, intimacy, emotion, and/or connectedness when they talk about social presence. Therefore, this chapter outlines the evolution of the construct of social presence in an effort to understand better its relationship to online learning.
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Angela T. Ragusa (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
This chapter explores how Internet-based asynchronous communication forums utilized in teaching undergraduate courses affect social interactions and student satisfac... Sample PDF | More details...
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Wai-Tat Fu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Thomas Kannampallil (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
We present an empirical study investigating how interactions with a popular social tagging system, called del.icio.us, may directly impact knowledge adaptation throu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Randall Dunn (Liberty University, USA)
As communication and connection are essential instruments for professional educators, this chapter seeks to examine the effectiveness of an online “virtual teacher’s... 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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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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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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Robert Z. Zheng (University of Utah, USA), Jill A. Flygare (University of Utah, USA), Laura B. Dahl (University of Utah, USA), Richard R. Hoffman (University of Utah, USA)
This chapter describes the college students’ online social communication patterns and behavior with a focus on the impact of individual differences on learners’ onli... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anthony “Skip” Basiel (Middlesex University – IWBL, UK), Paul Coyne (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, UK)
This chapter sets out to explore how professionals can network, collaborate and capture informal learning in an online work-based environment. It addresses the pedag... Sample PDF | More details...
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Shawn D. Long (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Gaelle Picherit-Duthler (Zayed University, UAE), Kirk W. Duthler (Petroleum Institute, UAE)
The traditional organizational workplace is dramatically changing. An increasing number of organizations are employing workers who are physically and geographically... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christopher M. Botelho (Baylor Health, USA), Joseph A. Cazier (Appalachian State University, USA)
The threat of social engineering attacks is prevalent in today’s society. Even with the pervasiveness of mass media’s coverage of hackers and security intrusions, th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jiehua Huang (Guangzhou University, China), Iiris Aaltio (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
This chapter explores a relationship between social interaction technologies (SIT) and guanxi, a major Chinese informal style of networking, in the context of the ca... Sample PDF | More details...
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Dimitris Bibikas (South East European Research Centre, Greece), Iraklis Paraskakis (South East European Research Center, Greece), Alexandros G. Psychogios (Research Centre of the University of Sheffield and CITY College, Greece), Ana C. Vasconcelos (CITY College, affiliated Institution)
The aim of this chapter is to investigate the potential role of social software inside business settings in integrating knowledge exploitation and knowledge explorat... 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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Maria Ranieri (University of Florence, Italy)
During the last years the issue of digital divide has received particular attention from international bodies like the UN, UNESCO, OECD (Bindé, 2005; OECD, 2001; UN,... Sample PDF | More details...
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Barbara Carminati (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy), Elena Ferrari (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy), Andrea Perego (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy)
Web-based social networks (WBSNs) are online communities that allow users to publish resources (e.g., personal data, annotations, blogs) and to establish relationshi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yasmin Ibrahim (University of Brighton, UK)
The dialectics between private pleasures and public needs raise various dilemmas, especially in the domain of the erotic and aesthetics. These are relative and abstr... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tom S. Chan (Southern New Hampshire University, USA)
Social networking has become one of the most popular applications on the Internet since the burst of the dot-com bubble. Apart from being a haven for teenagers and o... Sample PDF | More details...
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Wilson Huang (Valdosta State University, USA), Shun-Yung Kevin Wang (Florida State University, USA)
This chapter examines the gaps that arise between reactive social control systems and proactive technology systems. The authors further link these gaps to cybercrime... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui (Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK), Patrick Brézillon (LIP6 - Paris 6, France)
In recent years, the security research community has been very active in proposing different techniques and algorithms to face the proliferating security vulnerabili... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bogdan Hoanca (University of Alaska Anchorage, USA), Kenrick Mock (University of Alaska Anchorage, USA)
Social engineering refers to the practice of manipulating people to divulge confidential information that can then be used to compromise an information system. In ma... Sample PDF | More details...
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Dion Hoe-Lian Goh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Khasfariyati Razikin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Alton Y.K. Chua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Chei Sian Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Schubert Foo (Nanyang Technologica)
Social tagging is the process of assigning and sharing among users freely selected terms of resources. This approach enables users to annotate/ describe resources, a... Sample PDF | More details...
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Hak-Lae Kim (National University of Ireland, Ireland), John G. Breslin (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Stefan Decker (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Hong-Gee Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Social tagging has become an essential element for Web 2.0 and the emerging Semantic Web applications. With the rise of Web 2.0, websites that provide content creati... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lisa Friedland (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
In traditional data analysis, data points lie in a Cartesian space, and an analyst asks certain questions: (1) What distribution can I fit to the data? (2) Which poi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Todd Kelshaw (Montclair State University, USA), Christine A. Lemesianou (Montclair State University, USA)
The emergence and development of Web 2.0 has enabled new modes of social interaction that are potentially democratic, both within and across digitally mediated venue... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christopher Goldspink (Incept Labs, Australia), Robert Kay (Incept Labs, Australia,)
This chapter critically examines our theoretical understanding of the dialectical relationship between emergent social structures and agent behaviors. While much has... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jeffrey Mok (Miyazaki International College, Japan)
Technological artifacts such as computers and mobile electronic devices have dramatically increased our learning interactions with machines. Coupled with the increas... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yasmin Ibrahim (University of Brighton, UK)
The advent of the Internet hailed the ability of users to transform their identity and expression and articulation of the ‘self’ through their digital interactions.... Sample PDF | More details...
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James D. Robinson (University of Dayton, USA), Robert R. Agne (Auburn University, USA)
News anchors, talk show hosts, and soap opera characters often become objects of parasocial affection because of the nature of these program genres. This chapter exp... 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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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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António Jorge Filipe Fonseca (ISCTE, Portugal)
Several informational complexity measures rely on the notion of stochastic process in order to extract hidden structural properties behind the apparent randomness of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christopher Goldspink (University of Surrey,UK)
This article documents the findings of research into the governance mechanisms within the distributed on-line community known as Wikipedia. It focuses in particular... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anssi Smedlund (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
The purpose of this conceptual article is to develop argumentation of the knowledge assets of a firm as consisting of three constructs, to extend the conventional ex... 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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Rex Oleson (University of Central Florida, USA), D.J. Kaup (University of Central Florida, USA), Thomas L. Clarke (University of Central Florida, USA), Linda C. Malone (University of Central Florida, USA), Ladislau Boloni (University of Central Florida, USA)
The “Social Potential”, which the authors will refer to as the SP, is the name given to a technique of implementing multi-agent movement in simulations by representi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jonathan Bishop (Glamorgan Blended Learning Ltd., 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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Stefania Pierno (Engineering IT, Italy), Massimo Magaldi (Engineering IT, Italy), Gian Luca Supino (Engineering IT, Italy), Luca Bevilacqua (Engineering IT, Italy), Vladimiro Scotto di Carlo (Engineering IT, Italy), Roberto Russo (Engineering IT, Italy), Luigi Romano (Engineering IT, Italy)
In this chapter, we describe a grid approach to providing multimodal context-sensitive social services to mobile users. Interaction design is a major issue for mobil... Sample PDF | More details...
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Derek E. Baird (Yahoo!, Inc., USA), Mercedes Fisher (Milwaukee Applied Technical College, USA)
In this chapter we outline how educators are creating a “mash up” of traditional pedagogy with new media to create a 21st Century pedagogy designed to support the di... Sample PDF | More details...
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Robert D. Sprague (University of Wyoming, USA)
This chapter focuses on legal issues that may arise from the increasing use of social interaction technologies: prospective employers searching the Internet to disco... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lemi Baruh (Kadir Has University, Turkey), Levent Soysal (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
In recent years, social media have become an important avenue for self-expression. At the same time, the ease with which individuals disclose their private informati... Sample PDF | More details...
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Symeon Papadopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Fotis Menemenis (Informatics & Telematics Institute, Greece), Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Ioannis Kompatsiaris (Informatics & Telematics Institute, Greece)
The recent advent and wide adoption of Social Bookmarking Systems (SBS) has disrupted the traditional model of online content publishing and consumption. Until recen... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ann Dutton Ewbank (Arizona State University, USA), Adam G. Kay (Arizona State University, USA), Teresa S. Foulger (Arizona State University, USA), Heather L. Carter (Arizona State University, USA)
This chapter reviews the capabilities of social networking tools and links those capabilities to recent legal and ethical controversies involving use of social netwo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yu Zhang (Trinity University, USA), Mark Lewis (Trinity University, USA), Christine Drennon (Trinity University, USA), Michael Pellon (Trinity University, USA), Phil Coleman (Trinity University, USA), Jason Leezer (Trinity University, USA)
Multi-agent systems have been used to model complex social systems in many domains. The entire movement of multi-agent paradigm was spawned, at least in part, by the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Helen Klaebe (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Barbara Adkins (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Greg Hearn (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
This chapter defines, explores and Illustrates research at the intersection of people, place and technology in cities. First, we theorise the notion of ecology in th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Matthias Scheutz (Indiana University, USA), Paul Schermerhorn (Indiana University, USA)
Effective decision-making under real-world conditions can be very difficult as purely rational methods of decision-making are often not feasible or applicable. Psych... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ross Shannon (University College Dublin, Ireland), Eugene Kenny (University College Dublin, Ireland), Aaron Quigley (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Social interactions among a group of friends will typically have a certain recurring rhythm. Most people interact with their own circle of friends at a range of diff... Sample PDF | More details...
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Adrien Joly (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France), Pierre Maret (Université de Lyon, France), Fabien Bataille (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France)
These times, when the amount of information exponentially grows on the Internet, when most people can be connected at all times with powerful personal devices, we ne... 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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Bertram C. Bruce (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Andee Rubin (TERC, USA), Junghyun An (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
This chapter introduces situated evaluation as an approach for evaluating socio-technical innovation and change. Many current evaluations simply identify the impacts... Sample PDF | More details...
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Almudena Moreno Mínguez (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain), Carolina Suárez Hernán (IE Universidad, Spain)
The generalization of the new information technologies has favored the transformation of social structures and the way of relating to others. In this changing proces... Sample PDF | More details...
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Guy Merchant (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Over the last five years there has been a large scale shift in popular engagement with new media. Virtual worlds and massive multiplayer online games attract increas... Sample PDF | More details...
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Margarida Romero (Université de Toulouse, France & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
In recent years, we have witnessed an information revolution. This revolution has been characterised by widespread access to the Internet and by the emergence of inf... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mikhail Simonov (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Marco Mussetta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Riccardo Zich (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Since energy use is a type of consumer behavior reflecting the interests to maximize some objective function, the human being activities seen in energy terms might b... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ansgar Bernardi (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Germany), Stefan Decker (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Ludger van Elst (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Germany), Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes (German Resear)
This chapter introduces the general vision of the Social Semantic Desktop (SSD) and details it in the context of the NEPOMUK project. It outlines the typical SSD req... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lemi Baruh (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
In recent years social media applications, which enable consumers to contribute to the world of online content, have grown in popularity. However, this growth is yet... Sample PDF | More details...
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J. Leng (Visual Conclusions, UK), Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester, UK)
In this chapter the authors explore the contributioSocial Media Marketing Web X.0 of Opportunities Baruh, Lemi Kadir Has University, Turkeydevelopment of user-manipu... 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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