Handbook of research on social software and developing community ontologies

The rise of social software and the proliferation of social networking tools represents a relatively recent cultural phenomenon. The attitudes and behaviors of virtual communities and social groups goes beyond the distributed technological platforms being deployed and requires new conceptualizations and understandings of communities and their corresponding ontologies. ""The Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies"" examines the impact of new technologies and explores how social software and developing community ontologies are challenging the way we operate in a connected, distributed, and increasingly performative space. Through authoritative contributions by a vast group of international experts in this subject area, this book provides important new insights into where new social technologies and emergent behaviors are leading us.

How the crowd can teach / Jon Dron, Terry Anderson -- Social networking and schools : early responses and implications for practice / Chris Abbott, William Alder -- Cyber-identities and social life in cyberspace / Eleni Berki, Mikko Jäkälä -- Weblogs in higher education / Werner Beuschel -- Social navigation and local folksonomies : technical and design considerations for a mobile information system / Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth -- Social cognitive ontology and user driven healthcare / Rakesh Biswas ... [et al.] -- Social identities, group formation, and the analysis of online communities / Jillianne R. Code, Nicholas E. Zaparyniuk -- The emergence of agency in online social networks / Jillianne R. Code, Nicholas E. Zaparyniuk -- Exploiting collaborative tagging systems to unveil the user-experience of web contents : an operative proposal / A. Malizia ... [et al.] -- The roles of social networks and communities in open education programs / Utpal M. Dholakia, Richard Baraniuk -- Distributed learning environments and social software : in search for a framework of design / Sebastian Fiedler, Kai Pata -- Exploring the role of social software in higher education / Yoni Ryan, Robert Fitzgerald -- Identifying new virtual competencies for the digital age : essential tools for entry level workers / Kathryn Gow -- Social structures of online religious communities / Jerald Hughes, Scott Robinson -- Living, working, teaching and learning by social software / Helen Keegan, Bernard Lisewski -- Supporting student blogging in higher education / Lucinda Kerawalla ... [et al.] -- Blogs as a social networking tool to build community / Lisa Kervin, Jessica Mantei, Anthony Herrington -- A model for knowledge and innovation in online education / Jennifer Ann Linder-VanBerschot, Deborah K. LaPointe -- Using social software for teaching and learning in higher education / Petros Lameras, Iraklis Paraskakis, Philipa Levy -- The potential of enterprise social software in integrating exploitative and explorative knowledge strategies / Dimitris Bibikas ... [et al.] -- Personal knowledge management skills for lifelong-learners 2.0 / M.C. Pettenati -- Reconceptualising information literacy for the web 2.0 environment / Sharon Markless, David Streatfield -- Pedagogical responses to social software in universities / Catherine McLoughlin, Mark J.W. Lee -- Knowledge media tools to foster social learning / Alexandra Okada ... [et al.] -- A critical cultural reading of "YouTube" / Luc Pauwels, Patricia Hellriegel -- The personal research portal / Ismael Peña-López -- Ambient pedagogies, meaningful learning and social software / Andrew Ravenscroft ... [et al.] -- Interactivity redefined for the social web / V. Sachdev, S. Nerur, J.T.C. Teng -- Transliteracy as a unifying perspective / Sue Thomas ... [et al.] -- Bridging the gap between web 2.0 and higher education / Martin Weller, James Dalziel -- Destructive creativity on the social web : learning through wikis in higher education / Steve Wheeler -- Presence in social networks / Scott Wilson.