Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

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With an increasing accessibility to social networking tools, the development of Web 2.0, and the emergence of virtual worlds, social computing crosses cultural boundaries to join people in the digital landscape. Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications uncovers the growing and expanding phenomenon of human behavior, social constructs, and communication in online environments. This multiple volume publication presents the latest research on social change, evolving networks, media, and interaction with technology to offer audiences a comprehensive view of the impact of social computing on the way cultures think, act, and exchange information.

Author(s): Subhasish Dasgupta, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Steve Clarke, Murray E. Jennex, Annie Becker
Edition: 1
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 2351

Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
List of Contributors......Page 6
Contents......Page 14
Preface......Page 32
About the Editor......Page 41
Social Influence and Human Interaction with Technology......Page 44
Social and Human Elements of Information Security: A Case Study......Page 64
Computer-Mediated Communication Learning Environments: The Social Dimension......Page 81
Online Communities and Social Networking......Page 88
IT and the Social Construction of Knowledge......Page 98
Social Learning Aspects of Knowledge Management......Page 107
Agents and Social Interaction Insights from Social Psychology......Page 117
Cyber-Identities and Social Life in Cyberspace......Page 135
Establishing the Credibility of Social Web Applications......Page 148
The Evolution and Influence of Social Presence Theory on Online Learning......Page 156
Social Presence......Page 172
Reconceptualising Information Literacy for the Web 2.0 Environment?......Page 180
Social Networking......Page 199
Social Networks in Information Systems: Tools and Services......Page 212
Educational and Social Benefits of Social Network Sites: Applications to Human Services Education and Practice......Page 231
Teens and Social Networking Services: An Overview......Page 253
Social Networking and Personal Learning Environment......Page 281
Web 2.0 Social Networking Sites......Page 291
Mobile Social Networks: A New Locus of Innovation......Page 310
Mobile Social Networks and Services......Page 326
Mobile Social Web: Opportunities and Drawbacks......Page 337
Social Software (and Web 2.0)......Page 348
Self-Organization in Social Software for Learning......Page 355
Living, Working, Teaching and Learning by Social Software......Page 364
Mailing Lists and Social Semantic Web......Page 378
Social Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services......Page 393
Technological Social-ism......Page 412
Distributed Learning Environments and Social Software: In Search for a Framework of Design......Page 446
Pedagogical Responses to Social Software in Universities......Page 460
Electronic Classroom, Electronic Community: Designing eLearning Environments to Foster Virtual Social Networks and Student Learning......Page 482
A Methodology for Integrating the Social Web Environment in Software Engineering Education......Page 500
Ambient Pedagogies, Meaningful Learning and Social Software......Page 515
A Social Framework for Software Architectural Design......Page 533
From Pragmatism to Interaction Design: A Sociotechnical Design Space......Page 555
The ‘Social Experience Factory’ and the Fabrics of Collaboration in Virtual Communities of Practice......Page 570
Information Systems Development: Understanding User Participationas a Social Network......Page 593
A Framework for Integrating the Social Web Environment in Pattern Engineering......Page 603
A Framework Describing the Relationships among Social Technologies and Social Capital Formation in Electronic Entrepreneurial Networking......Page 630
Towards Learning ‘Self’ and Emotional Knowledge in Social and Cultural Human-Agent Interactions......Page 645
Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System......Page 665
Social Networks Applied to E-Gov: An Architecture for Semantic Services......Page 680
DemonD: A Social Search Engine Built Upon the Actor-Network Theory......Page 695
RapidOWL:A Methodology for Enabling Social Semantic Collaboration......Page 712
A Modern Socio-Technical View on ERP-Systems......Page 736
Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development: Redeployment of Information Communication Technologies among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands......Page 748
In Search of Social Television......Page 762
Asynchronous Communication Fostering Social Interaction with CollaboraTV......Page 775
Examining the Roles of Mobility in Social TV......Page 795
From 2BeOn Results to New Media Challenges for Social (i)TV......Page 805
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Visualization Within Virtual Communities......Page 826
A Framework for Analyzing Social Interaction Using Broadband Visual Communication Technologies......Page 845
The Hybrid Course: Facilitating Learning through Social Interaction Technologies......Page 859
The Use of Social Interaction Technologies in E-Portfolios......Page 872
The EduOntoWiki Project for Supporting Social, Educational, and Knowledge Construction Processes with Semantic Web Paradigm......Page 884
Course Management Meets Social Networking in Moodle......Page 892
Personal Digital Libraries......Page 898
Knowledge Media Tools to Foster Social Learning......Page 907
Using Notification Systems to Create Social Places for Online Learning......Page 928
Social Aspects of Mobile Technologies on Web Tourism Trend......Page 939
Cityware: Urban Computing to Bridge Online and Real-World Social Networks......Page 954
Improving the User Experience of a Mobile Photo Gallery by Supporting Social Interaction......Page 963
Social Support for Ontological Mediation and Data Integration......Page 979
Getting to Know Social Television: One Team’s Discoveries from Library to Living Room......Page 993
Social Networking, Adult Learning Success and Moodle......Page 1023
Use of Social Software in Education: A Multiple Intelligences Perspective......Page 1036
Using the Social Web for Collaborations in Software Engineering Education......Page 1055
Exploring the Role of Social Software in Higher Education......Page 1073
Using Social Software for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education......Page 1088
Social Networking Sites and Critical Language Learning......Page 1104
Creative Waves: Exploring Emerging Online Cultures, Social Networking and Creative Collaboration through e-Learning to Offer Visual Campaigns for Local Kenyan Health Needs......Page 1126
Using Social Networking to Enhance Sense of Community in E-Learning Courses......Page 1139
Publishing with Friends: Exploring Social Networks to Support Photo Publishing Practices......Page 1163
Technosocial Space: Connecting People and Places......Page 1182
Social/Human Dimensions of Web Services: Communication Errors and Cultural Aspects. The Case of VRL-KCiP NoE......Page 1198
Social Software Use in Public Libraries......Page 1217
Social Computing: Implications for E-Government......Page 1228
Designing for Disaster: Social Software Use in Times of Crisis......Page 1240
Student Use of Social Media: University Policy and Response......Page 1254
Social Marketing in Healthcare......Page 1277
Social Software for Customer Knowledge Management......Page 1289
Social Networking Behind Student Lines in Japan......Page 1302
WEB 2.0, Social Marketing Strategies and Distribution Channels for City Destinations: Enhancing the Participatory Role of Travelers and Exploiting their Collective Intelligence......Page 1323
Marketing for Children Using Social Interaction Technologies......Page 1348
Managing Organizational Knowledge in the Age of Social Computing......Page 1360
Social Software for Bottom-Up Knowledge Networking and Community Building......Page 1368
The Essence of Organizational Knowledge: A Social Epistemology Perspective......Page 1379
Social Identities, Group Formation, and the Analysis of Online Communities......Page 1389
Enhanced Interaction in Mixed Social Environments......Page 1405
The Usability of Social Software......Page 1421
Social Impact of Collaborative Services to Maintain Electronic Business Relationships......Page 1432
The Use of Social Media by Nonprofit Organizations: An Examination from the Diffusion of Innovations Perspective......Page 1463
Situating Social Identity through Language Convergence in Online Groups......Page 1476
Building Social Relationships in a Virtual Community of Gamers......Page 1488
Situational Awareness in Collaborative Work Environments......Page 1497
Developing Social Skills through an On-Line Learning Environment: A Qualitative Study......Page 1513
Social Networking and Schools: Early Responses and Implications for Practice......Page 1532
Peer Learning and Social Interactions in an Asynchronous Learning Environment......Page 1541
Harnessing Web 2.0 for Context-Aware Learning :The Impact of Social Tagging System on Knowledge Adaption......Page 1554
Entering the Virtual Teachers’ Lounge: Social Connectedness among Professional Educators in Virtual Environments......Page 1570
Trust Modeling in a Virtual Organization Using Social Network Metrics......Page 1587
Trust in Social Networking Definitions from a Global, Cultural Viewpoint......Page 1598
Individual Differences in Social Networking Site Adoption......Page 1612
The Impact of Individual Differences on Social Communication Pattern in Online Learning......Page 1630
Exploring a Professional Social Network System to Support Learning in the Workplace......Page 1653
Managing Relationships in Virtual Team Socialization......Page 1669
Guarding Corporate Data from Social Engineering Attacks......Page 1679
Social Interaction Technologies: A Case Study of Guanxi and Women Managers’ Careers in Information Technology in China......Page 1691
The Potential of Enterprise Social Software in Integrating Exploitative and Explorative Knowledge Strategies......Page 1704
Interrelationships Between Professional Virtual Communities and Social Networks, and the Importance of Virtual Communities in Creating and Sharing Knowledge......Page 1717
Cyberspace’s Ethical and Social Challenges in Knowledge Society......Page 1740
Security and Privacy in Social Networks......Page 1749
Social and Legal Dimensions of Online Pornography......Page 1761
Social Networking Site: Opportunities and Security Challenges......Page 1769
Emerging Cybercrime Variants in the Socio-Technical Space......Page 1783
A New Approach to Reducing Social Engineering Impact......Page 1797
Effects of Digital Convergence on Social Engineering Attack Channels......Page 1807
On the Effectiveness of Social Tagging for Resource Discovery......Page 1821
Representing and Sharing Tagging Data Using the Social Semantic Cloud of Tags......Page 1831
Anomaly Detection for Inferring Social Structure......Page 1840
Emerging Online Democracy: The Dynamics of Formal and Informal Control in Digitally Mediated Social Structures......Page 1847
Agent Cognitive Capabilities and Orders of Social Emergence......Page 1860
Social and Distributed Cognition in Collaborative Learning Contexts......Page 1881
Social Networking Sites (SNS) and the ‘Narcissistic Turn’: The Politics of Self-Exposure......Page 1898
Audience Replies to Character Blogs as Parasocial Relationships......Page 1912
The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry as an Essential Social Dimension of the Semantic Web......Page 1925
The Emergence of Agencyin Online Social Networks......Page 1949
Two Informational Complexity Measures in Social Networks and Agent Communities......Page 1966
Social Self-Regulation in Computer Mediated Communities: The Case of Wikipedia......Page 1975
Social Network Structures for Explicit, Tacit and Potential Knowledge......Page 1990
Motif Analysis and the Periodic Structural Changes in an Organizational Email-Based Social Network......Page 2000
“Social Potential” Models for Modeling Traffic and Transportation......Page 2012
Increasing Capital Revenue in Social Networking Communities: Building Social and Economic Relationships through Avatars and Characters......Page 2030
Providing Mobile Multimodal Social Services Using a Grid Architecture......Page 2048
Pedagogical Mash Up: Gen Y, Social Media, and Learning in the Digital Age......Page 2066
Legal Issues Associated with Emerging Social Interaction Technologies......Page 2088
Public Intimacy and the New Face (Book) of Surveillance: The Role of Social Media in Shaping Contemporary Dataveillance......Page 2100
Analysis of Content Popularity in Social Bookmarking Systems......Page 2112
Conceptualizing Codes of Conduct in Social Networking Communities......Page 2139
Modeling Cognitive Agents for Social Systems and a Simulation in Urban Dynamics......Page 2156
Embedding an Ecology Notion in the Social Production of Urban Space......Page 2177
Affective Goal and Task Selection for Social Robots
......Page 2193
Using Ambient Social Reminders to Stay in Touch with Friends......Page 2207
Leveraging Semantic Technologies Towards Social Ambient Intelligence......Page 2215
Virtual Social Networks: Toward A Research Agenda......Page 2241
Situated Evaluation of Socio-Technical Systems
......Page 2254
Online Virtual Communities as a New Form of Social Relations: Elements for the Analysis......Page 2269
Learning for the Future: Emerging Technologies and Social Participation......Page 2282
Metacognition on the Educational Social Software: New Challenges and Opportunities......Page 2295
Digital Energy: Clustering Micro Grids for Social Networking......Page 2306
The Social Semantic Desktop: A New Paradigm Towards Deploying the Semantic Web on the Desktop......Page 2323
Social Media Marketing Web X.0 of Opportunities......Page 2348
Visualization in Support of Social Networking on the Web......Page 2360
On the Social Shaping of the Semantic Web......Page 2380
Index......Page 2396