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What is Online Social Network

Chapter 36
Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education
An online service or site to facilitate social interaction to help individuals find others of a common interest, establish a forum for discussion, and exchange information.
Published in Chapter:
Constructing Community in Higher Education Regardless of Proximity: Re-Imagining the Teacher Education Experience within Social Networking Technology
Karina Clemmons (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA), Amanda Nolen (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA), and Judith A. Hayn (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4458-8.ch036
Abstract
In an increasingly global world where students are increasingly mobile and not bound by the same rules of proximity as before (Beckmann, 2010; Healey, 2008), it becomes critically important to understand how learning can take place and how community can be built through virtual communities. This chapter reports the results of a study that investigated whether preservice and beginning teachers involved in the dialogue of an emergent online social networking community engage in meaningful educational and professionally enriching experiences. The researchers specifically examined how online social networking in teacher education programs addresses issues related to: (1) the isolation students feel while in the field; (2) the lack of community and dialogue among students; (3) the disconnectedness between classroom knowledge and field experiences; (4) the limited reflective practices observed among novice teachers; and (5) the need to appreciate multiple perspectives and diverse cultures.
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Chapter 15
Role of Privacy and Trust in Mobile Business Social Networks
An online social network (OSN) is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) that can be called as “nodes”, and the links that are the different types of relationships/interdependency, established between nodes. In fact, a social network is based on two parameters: nodes and links. The nodes define the content of the relationships (links) according to their theme/interest/attendance (e.g. trade financial, friends, kinship, dislike, trade, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology)). An important attribute of a link is the type of information exchange/communication technology (e.g. using mobile equipment). Today social networks use web-based services, so the type of communication can modify the behaviour of nodes, the communication habits of OSN users.
Published in Chapter: Role of Privacy and Trust in Mobile Business Social Networks; From: Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
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Chapter 19
Privacy, Trust, and Business Ethics for Mobile Business Social Networks
An online social network (OSN) is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) that can be called as “nodes”, and the links that are the different types of relationships/interdependency, established between nodes. In fact, a social network is based on two parameters: nodes and links. The nodes define the content of the relationships (links) according to their theme/interest/attendance (e.g. trade financial, friends, kinship, dislike, trade, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology)). An important attribute of a link is the type of information exchange/communication technology (e.g. using mobile equipment). Today social networks use web-based services, so the type of communication can modify the behavior of nodes, the communication habits of OSN users.
Published in Chapter: Privacy, Trust, and Business Ethics for Mobile Business Social Networks; From: Handbook of Research on Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities
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Chapter 33
Online Social and Business Networks’ Implications for Corporate Strategy
A OSN is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes”, which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, or common interest, all connected over electronic means, mainly Internet.
Published in Chapter: Online Social and Business Networks’ Implications for Corporate Strategy; From: Handbook of Research on Business Social Networking: Organizational, Managerial, and Technological Dimensions
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Chapter 20
Impact of 2.0 on Contemporary Marketing
Web-based service that allows individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
Published in Chapter: Impact of 2.0 on Contemporary Marketing; From: Handbook of Research on Enterprise 2.0: Technological, Social, and Organizational Dimensions
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Chapter 38
Emerging Wireless Networks for Social Applications
can be defined as a group of individuals or organizations called nodes that use the Internet as a communication medium, forming a social structure with a series of particular social relations.
Published in Chapter: Emerging Wireless Networks for Social Applications; From: Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
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