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What is Social Technologies

Chapter 52
Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
An umbrella term which could include free software, social software, recycled electronic equipment in free media labs, and so on. Technology put to use by the people, for the people.
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Social Technologies and the Digital Commons
Francesca da Rimini (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-368-5.ch052
Abstract
This chapter investigates the premise that software is culture. It explores this proposition through the lens of peer production, of knowledge-based goods circulating in the electronic space of a digital commons, and the material space of free media labs. Computing history reveals that technological development has typically been influenced by external sociopolitical forces. However, with the advent of the Internet and the free software movement, such development is no longer solely shaped by an elite class. Dyne; bolic, Streamtime and the Container Project are three autonomously-managed projects that combine social technologies and cooperative labour with cultural activism. Innovative digital staging platforms enable creative expression by marginalised communities, and assist movements for social change. The author flags new social relations and shared social imaginaries generated in the nexus between open code and democratic media. In so doing the author aims to contribute tangible, inspiring examples to the emerging interdisciplinary field of software studies.
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Chapter 5
Social Technologies and the Digital Commons
An umbrella term which could include free software, social software, recycled electronic equipment in free media labs, and so on. Technology put to use by the people, for the people.
Published in Chapter: Social Technologies and the Digital Commons; From: Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
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Chapter 7
The Innovative Social Technologies and Their Impact on Knowledge Management Processes
Social technologies are able to improve a process of communication among the users of a specific place. Modern social technologies are able to use for marketing purposes not only standard devices or methods as mobiles, computers, but also tools as the artificial intelligence, business models (for managing of processes), but for marketing also tools as neuromarketing. Artificial intelligence is not so much common among managers in destinations and the reason is that some of these places are still not equipped with the appropriate devices or do not trust for instance e-marketing.
Published in Chapter: The Innovative Social Technologies and Their Impact on Knowledge Management Processes; From: Handbook of Research on Social Media Applications for the Tourism and Hospitality Sector
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Chapter 5
Practice From Implementing Web 2.0 Tools in Higher Education
Can also be referred to as collaborative technologies and include all the applications, features and tools that allow users to create, edit and share content online, usually in numerous formats.
Published in Chapter: Practice From Implementing Web 2.0 Tools in Higher Education; From: Cases on Technologies in Education From Classroom 2.0 to Society 5.0
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Chapter 19
Trends in Information Literacy Programmes to Empower People and Communities: Social Technologies Supporting New Citizen Needs
Social technologies can be understood in three different but complementary ways. As technologies for social inclusion, which bring together citizen, science and social implementation interests; especially in areas with great infrastructural deficiencies, environmental problems or urban degradation. Also they may referred as means for the management of alternative forms of democratic structures and of government; generating new possibilities of representation, decision-making and control of public matters. There is also a third component of experimentation, often named as “citizen labs”, as a way to deploy and test new tools of the knowledge economy, with special attention to new digital commons.
Published in Chapter: Trends in Information Literacy Programmes to Empower People and Communities: Social Technologies Supporting New Citizen Needs; From: Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
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