Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration

✍ Scribed by Stamatia Ilioudi, Athina A. Lazakidou (auth.), Athina A. Lazakidou (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: Annals of Information Systems 15
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Online communities are among the most obvious manifestations of social networks based on new media technology. Facilitating ad-hoc communication and leveraging collective intelligence by matching similar or related users have become important success factors in almost every successful business plan.

Researchers are just beginning to understand virtual communities and collaborations among participants currently proliferating across the world. Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration covers cutting edge research topics of utmost real-world importance in the specific domain of social networks. This volume focuses on exploring issues relating to the design, development, and outcomes from electronic groups and online communities, including:

- The implications of social networking,
- Understanding of how and why knowledge is shared among participants,
- What leads to participation, effective collaboration, co-creation and innovation,
- How organizations can better utilize the potential benefits of communities in both internal operations, marketing, and new product development.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Health-Related Virtual Communities and Social Networking Services....Pages 1-13
Emergent Evaluation Criteria for Collaborative Learning Environment....Pages 15-33
Evaluating and Enriching Online Knowledge Exchange: A Socio-epistemological Perspective....Pages 35-59
Organizational Design of Online Communities....Pages 61-73
A Security Model for Virtual Healthcare Communities....Pages 75-113
Cybernationalism: Terrorism, Political Activism, and National Identity Creation in Virtual Communities and Social Media....Pages 115-134
E-Government and Data Protection in the Public Sector....Pages 135-145
Building SCIENAR, a Virtual Community of Artists and Scientists: Usability Testing for the System Improvement....Pages 147-161
User-Generated Content for Location-Based Services: A Review....Pages 163-179
Generating Social Awareness Through Social Network Sites....Pages 181-205
Markov Random Field and Social Networks....Pages 207-219
Mobile Communities – Current Status and Challenges....Pages 221-237
Social Networks in Environmental Epidemiology....Pages 239-249

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences